Change the Discovery Scope of a Terminal Services License Server

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

When you install the TS Licensing role service by using Server Manager, you need to specify a discovery scope, which determines how the Terminal Services license server will be automatically discoverable by terminal servers.

You can use Review Configuration in the TS Licensing Manager tool to change the discovery scope of the license server after the TS Licensing role service has been installed on the computer.

Note

If the license server is a member of a workgroup, and then you join the license server to an Active Directory domain, the discovery scope for the license server will be automatically changed from Workgroup to Domain.

For more information about discovery scopes, see Terminal Services License Server Discovery.

Use the following procedure to change the discovery scope of a license server by using TS Licensing Manager.

Membership in the Enterprise Admins group, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure. Review details about using the appropriate accounts and group memberships at Local and Domain Default Groups (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83477).

To change the discovery scope of a license server by using TS Licensing Manager

  1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, point to Terminal Services, and then click TS Licensing Manager.

  2. Select the license server for which you want to the change the discovery scope, and then on the Action menu, click Review Configuration.

  3. The current discovery scope of the license server will be displayed at the top of the Configuration dialog box. To change the discovery scope for the license server, click Change Scope.

  4. A message appears informing you that Enterprise Admins privileges are required to change the discovery scope of the license server. Click OK.

  5. Select the appropriate discovery scope for the license server. The choices are:

    • This domain

    • The forest

  6. Click OK. A message appears confirming that the discovery scope for the license server has changed. Click OK.

  7. The new discovery scope for the license server will be displayed at the top of the Configuration dialog box.

    If any configuration issues occur from changing the discovery scope, those issues will be displayed in the Configuration dialog box. For more information, see Review the Configuration of a Terminal Services License Server.

  8. Click OK to close the Configuration dialog box.

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