Windows 10: how can i remove RDS per user cals which are unused?

want to remove un-used Remote Desktop Licenses CALs from RDS server.


If i directly uninstall the Cals using below command. will Microsoft still charge for it or it will be removed from license as well?


wmic /namespace:\\root\cimv2 path win32_TSlicenseKeyPack CALL UninstallLicenseKeyPackWithId KEYPACKID


Scenario:


There are 2 servers.


Server1 - 2000 Cals per user. 1230 issued


Server2 - 1000 Cals per user. 0 issued


can i removed 1000 Cals from server2 and add 50% of new cals again?


As we cannot remove cals partially.

:)

 

Activate RDS CAL 2019 on Windows Server 2016

Dear Microsoft Support,



We recently purchased Windows Server RDS CAL 2019.

When we tried to install Windows Server RDS CAL 2019 into Windows Server 2016, it shows the license is not recognized and couldn’t install.



My questions are :

1. Can’t Windows RDS CAL 2019 be installed in Windows Server 2016? If can, how?
2. Is there any way to downgrade RDS CAL from 2019 to 2016 version?

Thanks,

 

TS RDS Device CAL license unbind device

Hi All,

I have issue on TS RDS cal license in Win 2008 R2 server.

Have procured few TS RDS Device CAL and configured in Win 2008 Server. Now few users are left and device is cleaned and remove few users dot not required to be access and i need to give another user access. But 10 license configured and always 4 to 5 users
are connected not more than that. now issue is another user trying to connect it says unable to connect RDC check remote machine is ON and have access.

I need to cleanup of binded systems here which is not in use so that i can use that license to another device.

Please suggest

Regards,

Reddy

 

Are RDS User CALS included in Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Licensing?

Disclaimer: I am not a Microsoft employee and I cannot speak for Microsoft. I can only speak from my personal experience.

From our experience? No. They do not appear to be included.

From our work with our Microsoft 365 project and the related agreement it did not include RDS CALs; formerly known as TS CALs. We have/had to separately purchase RDS CALs in addition to the others which were included with M365.

To clarify, our M365 Agreement included Server CALs, Users CALs and ML CALs (Management Licenses for SCCM and so on) but no RDS CALs. It seems RDS CALs will need to be added as a separate item and will not be included under the M365 umbrella. At least not
right now.

Talk to your Microsoft, Sales VAR or related vendor and ask them the same question explicitly. My guess is that it will need to be added separately as ours had to be. They were not bundled. This seems to be true for now as of Oct 2018. Take that for what
it's worth.