Any help would be very much appreciated...
We have SBS 2K w/ 5 CALs. Right now we're only using it as a file
server - I don't know how to classify this but we also have an MS
Access DB in the SBS that at most 3 users access at one time so I'm
not sure how the CAL's apply here. We're not using any other of the
components but are planning to.
Here's what we want to be able to do:
1) We want to be able to host an internet app, asp.net w/ sqlserver 2K
backend. Authentication will be handled by the application for a list
of users in a db table.
2) Use the same sqlserver 2K as backend for a client/server app.
Security is also handled by the app for a list of users in a db
table.
3) Use Active Directory only for controlling file/printer sharing
purposes. Our emails are hosted by a third party.
>From reading previous posts, please affirm if this would be OK for us
or not:
1) upgrade sbs2K to sbs2003 premium to be able to use sqlserver. I'm
thinking this will solve the licensing we require for our web app.
2) Not sure though about the CAL's - since we already have 5 from
sbs2K, and if we upgrade to sbs2003 w/ 5 CAL's, would that give us 10
CAL's in total? as I understood CAL's can be per-user or per-device
(or per-pc, we do not have any roaming access), we need about 10 CAL's
in a per-user config since we probably will only have at most 7 users
accessing the server at a time, plus the web app.
not sbs related but might as well throw it in if anybody can help -
does anybody know how much (ballpark) the open value licensing would
be for abt 15 installations/users of XPPro and OfficeXP/03? if we go
retail, it's abt 200/user for XPPro.
Thanks.