Online License: Re-New your AADS Terminal Server

Online License Type

The License tabpage of AADS Control and Maintenance shows the License type. In the example above, it is a Demo License, which is an Online License type, valid for 60 days. The End-date is shown.

Online License Type: Automatic License Update

Approximately once a week the Online License will be renewed.
Default updating the "Online License" is done automatically.

Automatic License Update is applicable in case your Server does not change, no change in CPU, no change in hardware, no re-install of Windows, or re-install the AADS License on some other PC, etc.
You have installed the Server, installed (or updated) Windows, installed (or updated) AADS and for the next weeks, months, years, etc the Server is used by the Users.

Online License Type: Automatic License Re-Install

In case the Server changes, the License needs to be re-installed.
In case an Online License is used, the re-install of the AADS License can be done automatically.

For the most of it, Automatic License Re-Install is applicable when Virtualization is being used:

• Windows + AADS is installed inside a VM.
• The VM is migrated to some other Host.
• This other Host has different hardware, different CPU, etc, or the VM gets different hardware assigned like more cores, more memory, etc.

When NOT to use Automatic License Re-Install, Online License Type

• VM's are copied "all the time" and are started on random PC's, for example a Test-PC of an Administrator.
  • It is so easy to copy and clone and run VM's...so why not do that...
• When the VM-copy is started, AADS sees that it is used on a different Server/Host.
• The AADS License will be re-installed and associated with this random PC/Server/Host.
  • In this example, the AADS License will be associated with a Test-PC belonging to the Administrator.
• The AADS License on the real Production Server will be invalidated automatically, because:
  • 1 Server, 1 License. This is our main License Term (and business).
  • The Production Server will stop working...

When to use Automatic License Re-Install, Online License Type

• VM-copies are made.
• The VM-copy is started on some other Production Server, because the current Production Server or the current AADS-VM has a problem and is stopped.
• VM-copies are not randomly started on random PC's.

Manual License Re-New, Online License Type

In case it is preferred not to connect the AADServer to the Internet, it is possible to use a browser for the re-newing of the "Online License".
The AADServer can be disconnected from the Internet.

In such a case, de-select Automatic License Update, and click on the Apply-button.
And when the AADServer needs to re-new the temporary Online License, it will be shown as follows:

When the "Online License" needs to be re-newed, a "LIC REQUEST" will be shown.

Copy-and-paste the complete "LIC REQUEST" in to a browser, in to the "License Request" procedure on our website:

Click on the "submit-button", and after a few seconds, a "LIC REPLY" is shown:

Copy the whole "LIC Reply" into AADS Control, and click on the "Set License" button:

Click on the "Set License" button.

After a few minutes, the "LIC Reply" is processed by the AADServer, and such is shown as follows:

Offline License Type

The Full, Paid version of AADS Terminal Server can use both an "Offline" and "Online License Type".
In case an "Offline License Type" is being used, it is shown as follows:

The Offline License Type does not need Internet access and does not need to be re-newed.

Notifications

Be sure to read the paragraph about "Notifications" in the Enterprise Manual or Small Manual.
When Notifications are enabled, the AADServer will sent an email to the Administrator when the Manual License Re-New procedure needs to be done.