Guest FS John Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Hi there, I am a bit confused about Microsoft CALs... My company has 10 client and uses an own application (developed in Visual Studio 2005 that access to a SQL Server database using ADO.NET) installed on each machine. I have a new Windows Server 2003 R2 that comes with 5 client CALs. I need to install SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and (here I am sure) I need to buy 10 CALs one for each user/machine (1 user use 1 machine) My question is: Do I need to buy 5 more CALs for Windows Server 2003 (I will use the server ONLY to host SQL Server 2005, I will not use the server as Domain Controller, the network is a workgroup model)?
Guest Daniel Peterson Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: Windows Server 2003 R2 CALs vs SQL Server 2005 CALS You need a Windows CAL and a SQL CAL for each of your users/machines. Here's the Microsoft list from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/priclicfaq.mspx If a device or user is accessing or using the server software, a CAL is required, unless: access is through the Internet and is unauthenticated, or access is to a server running Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, or access or use is by an External User and External Connector licenses are acquired instead of CALs. "FS John" <FS John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8BBD6B12-0524-4C0B-8D2B-9A2CAD579CE7@microsoft.com... > Hi there, > I am a bit confused about Microsoft CALs... > > My company has 10 client and uses an own application (developed in Visual > Studio 2005 that access to a SQL Server database using ADO.NET) installed > on > each machine. > > I have a new Windows Server 2003 R2 that comes with 5 client CALs. > > I need to install SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and (here I am sure) I > need to buy 10 CALs one for each user/machine (1 user use 1 machine) > > My question is: Do I need to buy 5 more CALs for Windows Server 2003 (I > will > use the server ONLY to host SQL Server 2005, I will not use the server as > Domain Controller, the network is a workgroup model)? > >
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