Licensing and Activating the Remote Desktop Service

Prerequisites

You have obtained the enterprise license number and related information.
You have obtained the account and its password of the server administrator.

Procedure

Log in to the server as the administrator.
Choose Start > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.
Right-click the target server name, and then choose Activate Server from the shortcut menu.

Figure 1 Activate Server
Open the Activate Server Wizard and perform operations as prompted.

Figure 2 Activate Server Wizard
Select the automatic connection method.

Figure 3 Automatic connection
Enter the information about your company and user name.

Figure 4 Required information
(Optional) Enter the detailed contact information about the company.

Figure 5 Enter detailed information about the company.
Confirm the installation and start the license installation wizard.

Figure 6 Completing the Active Server Wizard

Figure 7 Install Licenses Wizard
Select Enterprise Agreement for License program.

Figure 8 License program
Enter the enterprise agreement number.

The enterprise agreement number must be purchased from the third-party platform in advance to obtain the official remote desktop authorization license.

Figure 9 Agreement number
Select Windows Server 2016 for Product version, select RDS Per User CAL for License type, and set Quantity to 100.

Figure 10 Selecting product version
After the license is installed, activate the server and return to the Remote Desktop Licensing Manager console and check whether the server is activated.

Figure 11 Completing the license installation wizard