Would someone explain to me how this CAL licensing things works for SBS 2000
or 2003? I'm gonna have two persons accessing Exchange on it, so obvioulsy
I need 2 CALs. How about me, the admin, do I need a CAL for myself? What
if I setup an ftp server on it, do I need a CAL for absolutely anyone who
accesses the ftp server? Cause that makes no sense. Or are CALs used only
when someone logs onto the domain? Any other access to the server is not
counted as a CAL?

Does SBS actually know how many CALs you have and prevents anyone from
accessing it if you exceed it or is it just MS lawyers that do?

Thanks,
Harry




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Re: How does the CAL licensing thing work? by Ric

Ric
Thu Oct 23 09:09:02 CDT 2003

The CALs are only required for logon to the domain - so any FTP/Web server
access does not require a CAL. You need as many CALs as people you will
need to have logged on simultaniously. If you have two machines and both
will have users logged on to them at the same time then, as you correctly
assumed, you will need 2 CALs. As SBS comes with 5 CALs out of the box, you
will just need to purchase SBS and install it and you will be covered.

You can create as many users as you want, be they domain administrators or
users, but you can only have then umber of users up to the number of CALs
logged in simultaneously. SBS will not allow any further logons once the
licensed number of users are logged in.

Hope this helps, I tend to witter sometimes!

Ric.

"Harry Muscle" <fake@AT@e-mail.com> wrote in message
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> Would someone explain to me how this CAL licensing things works for SBS
2000
> or 2003? I'm gonna have two persons accessing Exchange on it, so
obvioulsy
> I need 2 CALs. How about me, the admin, do I need a CAL for myself? What
> if I setup an ftp server on it, do I need a CAL for absolutely anyone who
> accesses the ftp server? Cause that makes no sense. Or are CALs used
only
> when someone logs onto the domain? Any other access to the server is not
> counted as a CAL?
>
> Does SBS actually know how many CALs you have and prevents anyone from
> accessing it if you exceed it or is it just MS lawyers that do?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
>
>
>
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Re: How does the CAL licensing thing work? by Javier

Javier
Thu Oct 23 21:59:41 CDT 2003

Ric has pretty much covered everything... but I just want to make a simple
correction here:

Legally->

In SBS2000 you need as many CALs as devices you have accesing the server
(not counting FTP, POP3, OWA and so on). So, if you have 5 desktops, 1 PDA
and 1 laptop that are shared by only 3 users (so only there are 3
simultaneous conections at any given time)... you still need 7 CALs (not 3).

In SBS2003 is the same... but you can assign a CAL to a device or to an
user. So, in the last case you would need only 3 CALs (but still it doesn't
have to do with simultaneous connections).

My $0.02,

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"Ric" <ric@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:uxBaW8WmDHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> The CALs are only required for logon to the domain - so any FTP/Web server
> access does not require a CAL. You need as many CALs as people you will
> need to have logged on simultaniously. If you have two machines and both
> will have users logged on to them at the same time then, as you correctly
> assumed, you will need 2 CALs. As SBS comes with 5 CALs out of the box,
you
> will just need to purchase SBS and install it and you will be covered.
>
> You can create as many users as you want, be they domain administrators or
> users, but you can only have then umber of users up to the number of CALs
> logged in simultaneously. SBS will not allow any further logons once the
> licensed number of users are logged in.
>
> Hope this helps, I tend to witter sometimes!
>
> Ric.
>
> "Harry Muscle" <fake@AT@e-mail.com> wrote in message
> news:3f97dc8d$1_8@corp.newsgroups.com...
> > Would someone explain to me how this CAL licensing things works for SBS
> 2000
> > or 2003? I'm gonna have two persons accessing Exchange on it, so
> obvioulsy
> > I need 2 CALs. How about me, the admin, do I need a CAL for myself?
What
> > if I setup an ftp server on it, do I need a CAL for absolutely anyone
who
> > accesses the ftp server? Cause that makes no sense. Or are CALs used
> only
> > when someone logs onto the domain? Any other access to the server is
not
> > counted as a CAL?
> >
> > Does SBS actually know how many CALs you have and prevents anyone from
> > accessing it if you exceed it or is it just MS lawyers that do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harry
> >
> >
> >
> >
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