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Questions tagged [licensing]

A probably off-topic question relating to the terms and conditions under which a piece of software is permitted to be used by those others. Per the FAQ, licensing questions are generally off topic on SeverFault.

Licensing, in the context of IT, typically refers to the terms and conditions under which a piece of software is permitted to be used by others. Per the FAQ, typical licensing questions are off topic on SeverFault.

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Explain Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? There are lots of tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) that would be really useful. However, the licensing on it is amazingly unclear. I thought I…
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Clonezilla and multiple Activation for Office 2010

We have a large desktop deployment (approximately 2000 PCs) coming and I'm in charge in structuring the best possible manner to have the PCs installed and staged before them out to multiple geographical sites. We have already purchased group license…
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Number of VMs on Windows 2012 Standard

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? According to the "Windows 2012 editions" comparison here, it is possible to run "two virtual instances" with Windows 2012 Standard. Is this referring to two VMs using that…
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Will a Windows 8 KMS key allow older operating systems to be activated?

To put our Windows 8 KMS key onto our KMS server running Server 2008 R2, it appears that we first need to remove the existing Windows 7/Server 2008 key. Is this the case? If so, do the new Windows 8/Server 2012 KMS Keys still allow older operating…
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Which edition of Windows Server 2008 should I install as a VM?

We've got a big Hyper-V host machine running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. This hosts all of our VMs. I'm about to create a bunch of Server 2008 VMs for various projects and wanted to know what edition I should install. Our license allows us to…
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Move SQL Server 2008 Web Edition

Ok long story short, at work I've run into the nice situation of having to move our SQL Database from one server to another. We got in touch with our hosting provider and got set up a new server (we needed more memory on the server and couldn't add…
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How do I find which Microsoft product a license key is for?

I'm sorting out all our software and licenses and I have a few empty disc sleeves from the Microsoft Action Pack which have a valid key on them but no disc, meaning there is no indication which product the key is for. Given a Microsoft product key,…
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SQL Server 2005 version comparison / differences

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? SQL Server isn't really my strongpoint but at the moment I've got to spec a new server on the Dell website and I was confronted with the following options: Microsoft® SQL…
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Deactivate Win XP SP3

I'm attempting to deactivate a Windows XP SP3 install in order to test configuration scripts. I've tried to modify the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents\OOBETimer registry key, however after changing the…
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Citrix XenApp Fundamentals

I have a problem with a new install of a XenApp Citrix server. Everything was working fine, but I was setting up Citrix Access Gateway and single sign in. Now, on the main server I am getting an error: The licenses required by this edition of Citrix…
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Do I need Windows CALs for a dedicated SQL Server database server?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? This would seem an easy enough question, but I wasn't able to find any definite answer anywhere. If I'm running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2, I need proper…
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Need to downgrade from an intel xeon 5675

I'll skip my sob story and just say Oracle has weird licensing, and because of this I'm trying to see if I can avoid buying three new ESX host servers by downgrading from 12 cores (6 licensed processors) to 8 core (4 licensed processors). The…
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Cisco 3925/k9 sub-interface vlan support

I've got a brand new cisco router 3925/k9. I wanted to set up a router on a stick on my network, but it turns out it doesn't support vlan sub-interfaces. I did it multiple times in gns3 simulator on other routers, so I am familiar with IOS commands…
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How can I tell when my MS Dynamics CRM trial key will expire?

I have an installation of Dynamics CRM 2011 that is currently on a trial key. We would like to change to a production license before it expires. Is there somewhere in Deployment Manager or elsewhere that I can see how much time is remaining on the…
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Mac office which needs to run windows application and we don't want parallels on every mac

Have a small law office which uses all Macs but then has a Windows based case management system. Right now they all run Parallels Desktop and it's a bit difficult to manage. I'd like to move the case management system over to Terminal Services so it…
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