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Windows: Could not establish a remote desktop connection. No client licenses available.

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Even though you have already installed and configured a Terminal Server license Server, you can not connect to a Terminal Server with the Remote Desktop Client from some individual clients. Some other will work.

The following error occurs:

The remote session was disconnected because there are no Terminal Server client access licenses available for this computer. Please contact the server administrator.
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Windows: How to determine the SID of a User or Group

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Hi,

Sometimes you need the SID of a user or group. For example if you want to set permissions with icalcs in multilanguage environments. icacls needs as input the group name or the SID. If you want to set permission for the builtin groups you have to specify the group name in the current language of the operating system, i.e. “Users” for en-US and “Benutzer” for de-DE. The better choice is the SID, the SIDs for builtin groups are always the same.
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