Question : How to determain how many trial days i have left on terminal services.

Hi,

In regards to TS that i have installed on my 2003 server. I used the 120 day trial to see if this is the right way for the company to go. It would seem useful. All i want to do is see how many days left. I can see the certificate but there is no mention to any time left. I am pushing my comapny to buy licences now but they say budget comes first and so they are asking me to  give them the actual time limit of when it has to be purchased.

Reading up it says that it activates as soon as the fist person remotes in but i dont know when that was.
Can someone help.

thx in advance.

Answer : How to determain how many trial days i have left on terminal services.

Sorry for confusing you, terrible wording on my part. What I meant with 'The time limit has been over since the first client connected' is not that the grace period has ended, but that the legal use of your terminal server without having TS licenses has ended; there is no "free trial" period. The quote from Microsoft's article makes that pretty clear.
As far as the remaining grace period is concerned, you can try to check the date of the %Systemroot%\System32\Lserver folder on the TS license server; this should be the date you installed the TS licensing.
You could try lsreport.exe from the Resource Kit as described here:
HOW TO: Use the Terminal Services Licensing Reporter Tool (Lsreport.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317592
Don't forget that the licensing server might have a grace period of 120 days, but the temporary licenses it's issuing are only valid for 90 days; from then on, the client will require a valid license to connect.