The Remote Desktop licensing mode determines the type of Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (RDS CALs) that a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server will request from a license server on behalf of a client connecting to the RD Session Host server.

Important

The Remote Desktop licensing mode configured on an RD Session Host server must match the type of RDS CALs available on the license server.

There are two types of RDS CALs:

The Remote Desktop licensing mode for the RD Session Host server can be set in the following ways:

For more information about RD Licensing, see the Remote Desktop Services page on the Windows Server 2008 R2 TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140434).

For more information about Group Policy settings for Remote Desktop Services, see the Remote Desktop Services Technical Reference (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=138134).