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UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES

CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS
TERMINAL SERVICES 2000 AND 2003
WRITTEN BY TIIT
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Terminal Services Unlimited.
This document aims to help you get Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 terminal services
unlimited connections at unlimited time. Please note that this is not crack for windows or anythig
like that. Nevertheless, to completely prepare your server, I recommend that you begin by taking
the step by step as it is covered in this document. I also recommend that you install, configure
terminal services and terminal services licensing for running.
I have tested this solution with clients Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server,
various Windows 2003 servers and PocketPC and also I have feedback that this is also working on
thin clients.
2. UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS 2000
Acording to Microsoft it is not ilegal to use terminal server with temporary licenses. There is a
paragraph that says: There is no provision in the EULA for accessing a terminal server without the
appropriate licenses. Get back on my site if you are interested and read paragraph in EULA that is
covering this question.
Note that I have tested this mode to work only in licensing per device. In order to bypass this
evaluation period to unlimited licence follow next steps:
1. SERVER Stop the terminal license server in services
2. SERVER Go to the %systemroot%\windows\system32\lserver\
3. SERVER Backup both files edb.chk and TLSLic.edb in case method fails (Microsoft holds licence
information database in these files)
4. SERVER Delete both files edb.chk and TLSLic.edb from the directory
5. CLIENT Go the client that has expired terminal evaluation period
6. CLIENT Run registry editor
7. CLIENT Go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\
8. CLIENT Note there are two subkey named Store and HardwareID
9. CLIENT Delete both subkeys
10. DO NOT connect yet to the terminal server with the client!
11. SERVER Change the date on the server to lets say year 2014 (this is used to change expiration
day so you dont need to repeat following steps every 90 days)
12. SERVER Start the terminal licensing service
13. CLIENT Connect the client to the server
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14. CLIENT Note that windows recreated new key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\. This new key holds new expiration
date on year what you choose to licence expire.
15. SERVER Go to the Terminal server licensing in Administrative Tools
16. SERVER Note that temporary licence now expires on year 2014. Issue date is also at year 2014
but information is not importat for clients to function. Server just saves expiration date on client.
17. SERVER Return date on server to today date
18. You have Terminal Licence that expires at date that is lo ng in future
Note that this day hack works only when date is changed on server. It means that client will get
long expiration date only if date on server is changed. I recommend that you change date on
server and leave it for few days, or how long is needed for all clients to connect to server. When all
clients connect in few days return date on server to today and all clients will have date that will
expire in 10 or 15 years or whatever year you choose.
3. UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS 2003
To maximize Windows 2003 evaluation, do not deploy a license server until the grace period is
about to expire. For Windows Server 2003, you receive a maximum of 210 days for evaluation (a
grace period of 120 days plus a temporary token of 90 days).
For Microsoft Windows 2000, you receive maximum of 180 days for evaluation (a grace period of
90 days plus a temporary token of 90 days).
Recreating Licence database in Windows 2003 is quite similar to the Windows Server 2000 but
there is single step that is required to reset licence. If you try windows 2000 steps on windows 2003
note that server would not recreate database, it will serve you old expired database.
Note that I have tested this mode to work only in licensing per device. In order to bypass this
evaluation period to unlimited licence follow next steps:
1. SERVER Stop the terminal license server in services
2. SERVER Go to the %systemroot%\windows\system32\lserver\
3. SERVER Backup both files edb.chk and TLSLic.edb in case method fails (Microsoft holds licence
information database in these files)
4. SERVER Delete both files edb.chk and TLSLic.edb from the directory
5. SERVER Run registry editor
6. SERVER Go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\
7. SERVER Note there is subkey named Parameters
8. SERVER Delete subkey (I have noticed that if I dont delete this key license server returns old
database)
9. CLIENT Go the client that has expired terminal evaluation period
10. CLIENT Run registry editor
11. CLIENT Go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\
12. CLIENT Note there are two subkeys named Store and HardwareID
13. CLIENT Delete both subkeys
14. DO NOT connect yet to the terminal server with the client!
15. SERVER Change the date on the server to lets say year 2014 (this is used to change expiration
day so you dont need to repeat following steps every 90 days)
16. SERVER Start the terminal licensing service
17. CLIENT Connect the client to the server
18. CLIENT Note that windows recreated new key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\. This new key holds new
expiration date on year what you choose to licence expire.
19. SERVER Go to the Terminal server licensing in Administrative Tools
20. SERVER Note that temporary licence now expires on year 2014. Issue date is also at year 2014
but information is not importat for clients to function. Server just saves expiration date on client.
21. SERVER Return date on server to today date
22. You have Terminal Licence that expires at date that is long in future
Note that this day hack works only when date is changed on server. It means that client will get
long expiration date only if date on server is changed. I recommend that you change date on
server and leave it for few days, or how long is needed for all clients to connect to server. When all
clients connect in few days return date on server to today and all clients will have date that will
expire in 10 or 15 years or whatever year you choose.
4. GENERATING PERMANENT LICENSES 2000, 2003 & 2008
Please note to use these licenses only for educational and testing use. For generating permament
licenses please follow these steps:
1. SERVER Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add or Remove
Windows Components. Add Terminal Server & Terminal Server Licensing Default licensing
mode is per device as we will need to for actiivation
2. SERVER Start Terminal Server Licensing (Start > Control Panel > Administrative
Tools > Services >Terminal Server Licensing) if it is not started
3. SERVER Go to the Terminal Server Licensing, Right-click on Terminal Server >
Properties > Installation Method:
Select Installation Method Web Browser
4. SERVER Go to next tab Required Information. Fill all 4 fields with some none important
information. Write somewhere TS ID on the bottom of that window 5. SERVER Right-click on
Terminal Server and select Activate Server. Terminal Server License Server Activation Wizard will
start. Read > press next
6. SERVER Select activation method Web Browser press next
7. WEB BROWSER Go to https://activate.microsoft.com/ to get license server ID
8. WEB BROWSER Select Activate a license server press next
9. WEB BROWSER Fill out required fields with some information that makes sense.
Choose country USA. Use Product ID use from step 6, press next on the bottom
10.WEB BROWSER Press next one more time on the bottom
11.WEB BROWSER If you did every thing right then you gonna get license server ID key (enter this
information in your terminal server activation window), but do not close window we will need this
for client access licenses (CALs). If everything is OK you will now have Terminal Server License
Server Activated.
12.WEB BROWSER Next in the Do you wish to install license tokens at this time? select Yes
13.WEB BROWSER Fill out the required fields on the Microsoft web page . License Server ID get
from Terminal Server CAL Installation Wizard. Important is to set License Program to Other
agreement.
14.WEB BROWSER Choose Product Type Windows 2003 Terminal server Per Device CAL, Fill
quantity (I put around 100) and Agreement Number 6565792
15.WEB BROWSER Press next once more on the bottom
16.WEB BROWSER you are gonna get your license key pack ID what you need to insert to Terminal
Server CAL Installation Wizard > close window do not pres finish, but first write down license key
pack ID
17.SERVER Insert license key pack ID into your server and finish wizard
That should be it you should have fully activated terminal server and terminal CAL. For Windows
2008 steps are the same as for Windows 2003 just in the step 14 do not choose windows 2003 per
device CALs, choose windows 2008 per device CALs.