How can I revoke an issued Per User license to make it available for a new user?
You can’t do this, and it shouldn’t be necessary either. A Windows 2008 TS Licensing Server issues Per User licenses by modifying the user object’s attributes in Active Directory. This information is then used to create a License Usage Tracking Report. A Per User license expires automatically after 52-89 days, as does a Per Device license. A Per User license cannot be revoked as a Per Device licenses (on 2008). But since Per User licenses are not enforced, there is no need to either. If you want to make sure that the License Usage Tracking Report is up-to-date and you can’t wait until the licenses expire, you can edit the user object’s attributes in AD manually. The attributes involved are either terminalServer (on Win2003 schemas) or msTSManagingLS, msTSLicenseVersion, msTSExpireDate (on Win2008 schemas) Top of page | FAQ | Home Q: Expired TS CALs are not returned to the pool of available licenses Last modified: January 28, 2008 A: If Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is ru
