What is this?
A virtual appliance is a pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software application packaged with the operating system inside a virtual machine.
It is good for system administrators if there is some kind of system failure to the terminal server they can easily restore new installation with terminal
services licensing and it is for developers who need clean install of activated terminal services everytime they boot virtual machine.
How it will look after TSU virtual appliance is prepared?
I have prepared VMware solution of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 with unissued TS CAL licences.
This way there would be no need for reactivating terminal services licensing again, and making a backup of current license server state.
If something goes wrong with the licenses shut down VMware machine, copy from RAR file clean installation and you are ready to go.
I have imagined that you install terminal services on your regular server then on that server install free VMware server
that automaticaly boots my windows server image with unissued licenses. It is server in server solution, your server that boots terminal
services, and on top of that my virtual server that boots terminal services licensing.
Please use this only for educational and testing purposes.
This server use very few resources, it is required about 256MB RAM of host memory and little processing power.
This way you can use same VMware machine on multiple physical server all with same terminal services licensing windows server.
Server can be used as production terminal server but in that case you will need to add more memory to the physical server.
Server is also prepared for automatic PXE thin clients booting.
This virtual configuration can also be used as test for virtualization of your server environment.
What will you get?
- free VMware server installation (free activation at VMware site)
- VMware required links for image vmdk files
- Documentation in PDF format
- Terminal server preconfigured for use
- Server preconfigured for PXE thin clients booting (DHCP and RIS configured) this is for automatic PXE boot with no need for CDROM or floppy
Option is to deliver ar required images on DVD by post mail if you have slow internet connection or you're unable to download ~2.5GB of data.
Order it: US $99 Mail me for order link.
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What others say:
Excellent document, clear instructions and formatting and best of luck with your studies. Hiren Amin
Thanks for the simple elegant solution. Works great in Windows 2008 terminal services and Vista terminal services!Ron Gordon
I have gone through your article on unlimited terminal services and have found it to be most enlightening. Neeraj Saraf
Thank you for access to the Terminal Services document. It will help in our testing. Thomas Hog
You guy have any solution. Thanks for your great job.Paul Tracy
Terminal Services Unlimited delivers on every promise. The method works beautifully, and its quick and easy. It's definitely the best money I've spent in a very long time. Richard, Georgia
Wow, you are amazing! Thank you so much for the instruction... I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help. Pierre Luu
Your solution worked beautifully. I have been waiting a long time for a Terminal Services solution to Windows 2003 Server & yours is very elegant & simple. Joseph Lipp
and small part of 700 others...
Quote of the day:
Terminal services licensing is a support nightmare that has no direct benefits to the customer
so it's doubly painful when it does not work.
VMware virtual appliance of Terminal services unlimited with preinstalled windows and terminal CAL here.
News:I have managed to create full activated terminal server with full active permament CALs, please take a look at this
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News: TSUthin is a document and software for Windows Terminal Services Client diskless computer network clients. It is used to boot (diskless) workstations over a network using PXE boot but it is possible to boot PXE from a CDROM or hard disk if the network card or BIOS do not support PXE.