Microsoft Licensing Help Please.

Westwood

Westwood

Westwood

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Afternoon All.

I wonder if you would be so kind as to help settle a Licensing argument. Basically my colleagues and I are setting up a new network and are arguing over the licensing needed.

If I explain the expected network setup could you advise as to what would be needed to have a fully licensed setup?

Hardware…

32 Workstations
20 Laptops
4 Servers (1 DC, 1 Exchange, Terminal Services, 1 SBS)

So I guess that would mean getting…

52 x Windows XP Pro
3 x Windows Server 2003
1 x Small Business Server
1 x MS Exchange

Now this is where we get really confused. The CALs…

There will be around 60 users of the network either in the offices or from home. Nearly all users will be able to access their email from home via VPN or OWA. We also have about 20 users logon to Terminal Services and work on our databases. What CAL’s will be needed?

Really appreciate any help.

Thanks a lot :D
 
There is two types of CAL, Per user or device and per server.

For your sized business it's be much more cost effective to buy 60 user CALs. They will need to be SBS CALs so that you are licenced for exchange as well. What DB are you connecting to? You may also need SQL licences if you are using MS SQL server not included in SBS premium.

BTW, SBS comes with exchange, do you really need another licence?

What was the argument about btw?

Burnsy
 
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I would have said that you need the following:-

52x Windows XP Pro supplied with the Workstations & Laptop Computers.
3x Windows 2003 Server R2
1x SBS Std R2

55x SBS User Cals (5 Cals come with SBS)
20x Terminal Server Cals

If you go for SBS Premium it comes with SQL Server as well.

You can not seperate the Exchange or SQL Servers that come with SBS and the SBS must be the root of the forest in the Active Directory i.e. the DC.

So you can probably get rid of your DC & Exchange Servers.
 
SBS 2003 R2 Cals allow you to connect to additional Windows 2003 Servers, so no extra Cals would be required there.
 
Looking at that list the first thing that would need to be done would be to decide what kind of network you were planning.
Either Small Business Server based or "Big Boys" Windows Servers.
You've specified SBS and Windows 2003 Server & Exchange 2003 Server.
This is a combination you shouldn't be considering - either go for an SBS site or a non-SBS site, don't try and combine it.

If you were going for an SBS site, well SBS includes your Exchange licenses.
So you would simply need a SBS CAL for each machine on your network with the exception of the SBS server itself.

If you weren't going for SBS.
With 4 Windows servers in total your cheapest option would be:

52x Windows Server 2003 CAL's
Any device that is going to access the Exchange server be it via POP, SMTP, Exchange, HTTP or HTTPS requires an Exchange CAL.
 
All I can say is that if the maximum number of CAL's registered on your server is exceeded, you will start experiencing disconnects on workstations (e.g. outlook, web access, other apps. behaving funny).
 
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