Good Afternoon:
I am having some difficulties with the Terminal Server Licensing Service in my environment. The problem is that the service crashes every time it starts. Sometimes it will run for a few minutes, sometimes a few seconds.
As I could not resolve this issue, I built a new server, activated it, installed my licensing and let it sit for a half hour. The service never crashed. I then pointed my RDS servers at this new server and things seemed to go well until a few hours ago. The service began crashing on this new server, too!
The License Server is a fully patched Server 2008 R2 box service ~ 150 RDS hosts. I can see that it's working while it's up -- lots of events in the Terminal Server Licensing Event log. But it just crashes with the error below in the Application Log.
I cannot find much information on this error, but the one promising thing I found was to grant Network Service access to C:\programdata\microsoft\crypto\RSA\MachineKeys. I did this, and restarted the service, and I'm still having problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
ERROR:
Faulting application name: svchost.exe_TermServLicensing, version: 6.1.7601.22137, time stamp: 0x5080442a
Faulting module name: tls236.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7c9d9
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000002c5d
Faulting process id: 0xf1c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0a2c3be224474
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\tls236.dll
Report Id: 15647152-0eb7-11e5-a687-00155d971957
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