Remote Desktop Virtualization Host does not have a license server

Question

I'm receiving an error when attempting to connect to a virtual desktop that is part of a virtual desktop collection. The server that hosts the virtual desktop collection also hosts a session host collection and the RD licensing server. The event log of the
server issues event 1156 "The Remote Desktop Virtualization Host server does not have a Remote Desktop license server specified. To specify a license server for the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host server, use the RDS module for Windows PowerShell."
The RD Licensing Manager indicates that volume licenses have been installed and are available as seen below. The RD Licensing Diagnoser indicates no issues.
I found a MS blog entry for Windows 2008 R2 that indicates the following: "Because there is no GUI interface for specifying licensing configuration on an RD Virtualization Host server, support has been provided in Windows PowerShell to enable this scenario.
As a result, a VDI administrator who does not want the (RemoteFX-enabled) RD Virtualization Host server’s licensing settings to be
centrally managed (from the RD Connection Broker server) can manually configure these settings on the RD Virtualization Host server(s) in the VDI deployment by using the following Windows PowerShell cmdlets:", but I'm not sure if this applies to Windows
2012 as well.
Thanks.
Dale
Dale Smith

Answer 1

Hi Dale,
Based on my research, please try to use this PowerShell command to set the RD licensing server.
Set-RDLicenseConfiguration -LicenseServer
Server FQDN -Mode PerUser
Set-RDLicenseConfiguration
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj215465.aspx
Also, please note that the RDVH server must be a member of a VDI collection.
Hope this helps.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support