Licserver Domain Local Is Not Available

Licenses are not available for this remote desktop session host licensing mode is not configured rds remote desktop remoted desktop pending restart.

Licserver domain local is not available. Remote desktop services will stop working because this computer is past its grace period and has not contacted at least a valid. This could be caused by network connectivity problems the remote desktop licensing service is stopped on the license server or rd licensing is no longer installed on the computer. Also you are correct you will need to host the licenses server on a 2012 server an 08 server wont host 2012 licenses. A fter performing rename of active directory ad domain name servers which are running remote desktop services may have a bubble shown notification area system tray to inform that there is no remote desktop license server is available with the following message.

The only reason to put the license server on a different server would be if you have multiple session hosts. Setspecifiedlicenseserverlist licserver domain local then go into the registry and manually set the licensing mode. Hklm system currentcontrolset control terminal server rcm licensing core licensingmode you need to change the dword to 2 for per device or 4 for per user. The deployment properties showed the licensing mode and license server correctly but licensing diagnosis said the licensing mode was unconfigured and the license server was unspecified and there were the usual this server is in a grace period messages to confirm that the config was missing.

How to fix rds 2012r2 error. Hit this problem earlier today identical symptoms on a server 2012 r2 rds setup. Licensing mode for the remote desktop session host is not configured remote desktop session host rd session host enables a server to host remoteapp programs or session based desktops. Setspecifiedlicenseserverlist licserver domain local where licserver domain local is your license server.