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# citrix-vads
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 6:18 PMIf you have an on-prem Citrix license server (would be needed for PVS or XenServer), that would be ideal for co-locating RDS licensing
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Danny
07/19/2023, 6:32 PMnope nothing on prem anymore outside of cloud connector and fas
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 6:34 PMIn that case, would recommend standalone VMs
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Danny
07/19/2023, 6:44 PMso I might as well leave it where it is? just sucks to waste an entire server for one role.
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 6:45 PMwell, usually we recommend HA 🙂
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Danny
07/19/2023, 6:47 PMHA?
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 6:47 PMhigh availability
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Danny
07/19/2023, 6:48 PMHigh Availability for what? Citrix is all Cloud
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 6:49 PMhigh availability for your RDS license servers to store your CALs
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Danny
07/19/2023, 7:30 PMI likely dont understand why the need. there is a 120 or so grace period if no CALs detected. why the need for HA?
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Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 7:47 PM120 is the out of the box grace period. "Once the grace period ends, clients must have a valid RDS CAL issued by a license server before they can log on to an RD Session Host server" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license
Uzair Ali
07/19/2023, 7:47 PMUzair Ali
07/19/2023, 7:49 PMIf you're using per device CALs, if your single RDS license server goes offline users will be denied connections. if you're using per user CALs and it goes offline, users will be permitted connections but you will be in breach of MS EULA . Thus RDS License server HA is recommended for prod environments
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Aaron O'Reilly
07/20/2023, 12:15 AMWhere no other servers are available I've used a cloud based DC to host the RDS CALs.
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Danny
07/20/2023, 1:47 PMthanks for the feedback everyone. will likely leave them in the current location then and look into HA