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- Click next confirming that you have verified the tasks listed.

- Click next confirming that you are installing a role-based feature on the current server.

- Click next to confirm that the server highlighted is the correct server for the role to be installed.

- Select the Remote Desktop Services role and click next.

- Click next on the features list, without checking an additional feature other than the defaults.

- Click next to confirm that you want to install the Remote Desktop Services role.

- Select Remote Desktop Licensing to install the licensing host components.

- Click Next to install the role. OPTIONAL: Check the Restart box and select yes to allow the server to restart after installation. (The server does not need to restart after installing this role.)

- After the role finishes installing, click close.

- Click on Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.

- Click Review on the server you just created.

- Click Add to Group.

- Click continue to add the server to its correct licensing group.

- This message will be received when you have completed the following step. Click ok to close the window.

- Click ok to close the window.

- Right click on the server you are trying to configure. Click activate server.

- Click Next to configure the licensing portion.

- Click next to use the automatic defaults.

- Complete the required information for your organization and then click next.

- Complete the required information for your organization and then click next.

- Click next to start the licensing wizard.

- Click next to confirm the settings are correct.

- Select the correct type of agreement for your organization. In our case this would be School Agreement.

- Type the agreement number and select next.

- Select the correct product version, license type, and quantity of licenses. Then click next to finish the wizard. In our case, RDS per user CAL is the correct licensing type.

- Click Finish to close the wizard and activate your RDS licensing server.

- Your server is now activated if the green check mark is displayed.

This guide was to setup the licensing server portion of a remote desktop environment. To setup the servers that clients/thin clients connect to, please see this post.]]>