SBS 2008 and Terminal Server CALS Licensing

source: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/f/20/p/27644/96161.aspx#96161

When you purchase SBS 2008 you actually get two licenses.  One for the SBS 2008 running on one computer ( this is the SBS package which includes Windows Server 2008, Exchange, WSUS, Hyper-V, and other stuff) and also a license for a 2nd Windows Server 2008 that can run on an additional computer.

The main SBS computer's Client Access Licenses (CALs)- (in your case 5 ) can be used to access that computer locally, or to access it remotely using a feature called Remote Web Workplace (RWW). This is not terminal services.

If you install the Server 2008 license on a second computer and join it to the SBS domain, then you can install Terminal Services and the Terminal Services license manager on that second server.  At that point you have to purchase Terminal Services CALs (TS CALs) and install them into the license manager.  These are NOT the same as the server CALs that came with SBS 2008.

Terminal Services presents a remote desktop to each licensed user or device when they log in.  Remote Web Workplace allows each user to control and use his workstation remotely just as if he was sitting at his desk.

I suggest buying the "Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion" by Russel and Crawford for additional understanding of SBS.  Its not hard to use SBS, but you do need to learn some server technologies which can be more easily grasped by reading rather by trying to figure it out.

Hal