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Improvements to License Manager:Improvements to the License Manager User Interface to easily spot configuration issuesWhen you are setting up a license server in the Domain or Forest mode, you could run intoconfiguration errors. Currently there is no easy way to find such errors. With the improvementswe have made to License Manager, you will be alerted in the License Manager UI if there areerrors in your configuration. In addition you will also be pointed to ways in which you canremedy this situation. Examples of configuration errors that the License Manager will help pointout are –a. The License Server is in the Forest mode but not published in Active Directory. Thismeans that the License Server will not be auto-discoverable.b. The License Server has a Group Policy set to “Restrict Access to specified TerminalServers”. However, the local group “Terminal Server Computers” is not present.c. The License Server is in Domain mode but not installed on a Domain Controller. Thismeans that the License Server will not be auto-discoverable.d. The License Server is not part of the “Terminal Server License Servers” group in ActiveDirectory. This would prevent per-user licensing from working.WMI Providers for Administration:With Windows 2008, we added support for WMI providers for Terminal Services Licensing. Withthe use of these WMI providers, administrators can now script tasks that were in the pastavailable only through the UI. Some of the capabilities that the WMI providers expose wouldhelp enable support for tasks like periodically monitoring available licenses on the LicenseServer, generating license usage reports, querying for various properties of the License Serveretc.Listed below are examples of the tasks that can be accomplished via WMI –a) Activating, deactivating or reactivating the license serverb) Installing license key-packsc) View details of licenses issued by the License Serverd) Generate per-user license reportse) View configuration information of the License Server (e.g.: Is the license serverinstalled on the Domain Controller? Is the Group Policy to prevent upgrades groupenabled on the LS? Etc.)f) Publish or un-publish the License Server in Active Directoryg) Revoke licenses13 | P a g e