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How to install RDS Licensing role and RDS CALs in windows server?

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.

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Disabling TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 in Windows server and allow only the TLS 1.3 version.

You may be facing some vulnerability issues with your IIS hosted websites related to TLS. Especially when doing a penetration test you may see reports such like such like “TLS/SSl Weak Message Authentication code Cipher Suites” with solution statement saying “Disable any weak HMAC algorithms within the TLS Configuration”.

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