{"id":1201,"date":"2015-11-20T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:34:05","slug":"does-your-hosting-provider-offer-remote-desktop-services-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/does-your-hosting-provider-offer-remote-desktop-services-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your hosting provider offer remote desktop services licensing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although hosting providers are generally required to provide the Windows Server operating system license via the SPLA program on hosted servers, very few offer the Remote Desktop Services (previously Terminal Services) user licenses (aka CALs\/SALs) to their customers. If you are using the Remote Desktop Services role, you are required to have RDS user licenses for each unique end user that uses RDS. The RDS CALs\/SALs are not part of the Windows Server OS licensing and are applied separately. We provide the Remote Desktop Services licenses at $7.75 per user which can be increased in increments of one on a monthly basis. Contact us for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although hosting providers are generally required to provide the Windows Server operating system license via the SPLA program on hosted servers, very few offer the Remote Desktop Services (previously Terminal Services) user licenses (aka CALs\/SALs) to their customers. 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