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Today's IT organizations are constantly striving to lower the total cost of ownership of their infrastructure while getting the maximum value from their IT investment. Effective and efficient software license management is a key component of today's IT strategy and the AppSense Terminal Server License Management can benefit customers by granularly controlling access to a centrally accessed application.
Alex Balcanquall, Technical Product Manager, Windows® Terminal Services
AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management can benefit customers by helping insure a company's usage of centrally managed applications meet the device licensing models common with products like Microsoft Office 2007.
Parri Munsell, Director Software Licensing, Microsoft Business Division
Terminal Server License Management
AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management enables IT Administrators to reliably and effectively enforce software licensing policies on client devices, gaining greater control over the deployment of applications in a Windows® Terminal Server environment.
The Benefits Of License Management
- Cost saving in number of licenses purchased for
- Simplified auditing and monitoring of license use
- Compliancy
How License Management Works
AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management operates via a kernel level filter driver in the operating system (similar to a virus scanning filter). This filter intercepts all file execution requests to determine if the request is authorized or not.
Ultimate Control for the Administrator
Any unauthorized requests are blocked and the user receives a message, configurable by the administrator, stating that execution has been denied. A key benefit derived from this fine level of control is the Administrator's ability to define rules that can be used to restrict access to applications by:
- User
- Group
- Client name or
- IP address
It is this ability to restrict application access by client name or IP address that allows AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management to effectively control and manage licensing in a Windows® Terminal Server environment.
A Working Example
Consider an organization which requires Microsoft Project to run on a limited number of devices where Microsoft Project is installed on a Windows® Terminal Server. Without AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management, the organization must license Microsoft Project for each and every device that may connect to the Windows® Terminal Server.
By installing and configuring AppSense Management Suite on the Windows® Terminal Server, the organization is able to define which devices can run Microsoft Project, therefore minimizing the number of licenses required. If more users require access to Microsoft Project in the future, their client devices can be added to the AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management configuration once additional Microsoft Project licenses have been purchased.