Exchange 2007 CAL's

Andy100 · 22 Apr 2009 at 05:48

Just a quicky I hope...

With MS Exchange 2007 do you need a CAL for every mailbox or just enough for concurrent users?

We have approx 360 mailboxes but have never had more than 100 people connected at any one time.

I could ring up MS I guess but thoought I'd check here first.

Thanks

Baz · 22 Apr 2009 at 06:43

Concurrent users.

You can have as many mailboxes as you like.

malman · 22 Apr 2009 at 10:48

You need a CAL for each user or device that accesses a mailbox. As I understand it this is non-concurrent. Number of mailboxes is not important

If you have users outside your organisation - partners, suppliers, retirees etc you need an external connector licence

CALs no longer cover the use of Outlook you need to get that separately

J1nxy · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:04

Quote from MS

The Exchange Server 2007 user/device CAL is required for each user/device gaining access to the server, and entitles access rights to both editions of Exchange Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2007/howtobuy/default.mspx

So basically everybody who access the Exchange server needs a CAL or if you have shared machines (call centre type things) then you license per device.