Guest AllenM Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I have a few questions regarding legal licensing in a clients environment where we will be installing software and assisting them in setting up terminal and remote services. I'm not 100% sure of all the logistics but I'm going to give all the details as I know. This is new hardware (DELL 2350 64-bit) and Windows 2003 R2 Standard - 64-bit I believe. This will be a terminal server as we will be installing Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 as well as Citrix Web Interface for remote access. So Citrix licensing part is easy. no problem there concerning licensing. Here's where I'm a bit confused as to the proper licensing they need to be legally licensed. Apparently in the home office there are 10 - 12 users there. They will be accessing the Windows 2003 server remotely via Citrix. I know what you're thinking and that is why if they are in the office do they need to access the server remotely and my answer to you is "because". Trust me I really don't understand there reasoning either. Now from what I understand there are going to be anywhere from 50-150 non employee clients needing to access this server to be able to update and input information into the dedicated program that will reside on this Citrix/terminal server. Now I'm not sure if they plan on using 1 generic guest account for all or if they plan on creating domain or local accounts for them all. My guess is they will be using guest account. Now will these all be concurrent connections? Again I'm not sure but again would imagine no and that because they are only buying 50 Citrix licenses I'm thinking the concurrent connections will be 50. Oh did I mention that theconnections will be nationally as some internationally? So here's my dilenma. I'm not sure!!!! Here's what I'm thinking and it's probably way off base. 50 Citrix licenses 50 Windows 2003 Server User/CAL's 50 Terminal Server User/CAL's or Also is this environment ideal to consider going with the Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server External Connector licensing instead? And if so is it necessary to purchase the 50 Windows 2003 server User/CAL's. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought there was an 800 Microsoft Licensing number for customers who need assistance regarding legal licensing issues. Thanks in advance to all.
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