February 2024

Remote Desktop Services Client Access License (RDS CAL) is the actual license issued per user or per device basis to authorize users/devices to use the RDS environment. There’s a licensing grace period of 120 Days during which no license server is required. Once the grace period ends, clients must have a valid RDS CAL issued by a license server before they can log on to an RD Session Host server. You can purchase RDS CALs from Microsoft or other retailers. It is issued in 2 types one is RDS Device CALs and another one is RDS User CALs. Generally RDS User CALs are preferred if you are using MS RDS Web Client.

In RD Web Access we see a Tab called Connect To Remove PC which is a feature lets you connect any PC using the name within your Network. However you can’t see this feature in your RDS Web Client since it works only in Internet Explorer