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Windows 2003 SBS and Terminal Server Licensing:

This has been a long known and troubling issue. If a client has a Windows 2003 Small Business Server, they can only install Terminal Server in Remote Desktop Mode which allows a maximum of two simultaneous remote connections. The only way to resolve the problem is to upgrade from 2003 SBS to 2003 Server. After being tormented by this problem more than once, I did a search for "2003 SBS Terminal Server Hack" and found some nice instructions and a patch file.

Here are the instructions:
1. Install v-patch
2. From VPatch diretory, launch vpatchprompt.exe
3. Vpatchprompt will ask you for the following files
- patch file (the .pat file)
- source file (termsrv.dll)
- destination file (the patched termsrv.dll)
4. Reboot computer in safe mode and replace c:\windows\system32\termsrv.dll) with the patched file
5. Reboot in normal mode.

The patch file can be downloaded from http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/download/2003tspatch.zip

Vpatch can be downloaded from http://www.tibed.net/vpatch