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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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General questions regarding CALs and WS 2003

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a few questions regarding CALs and Windows Server 2003: 1 - what happens if you join more computers to the domain than available CALs, do some computers get…
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Can windows 7 qualify for a windows XP volume license upgrade?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We've got volume license for xp professional upgrade. My predecessor thought that was enough to be compliant. We can't buy xp anymore, but can 7 serve as basis for the…
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Installing Windows 7 Upgrade Based on Windows 2000 License - can it be done?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a few PCs on which I have Windows 2000 Installed. I have recently decided to upgrade to Windows 7 (Home or Pro) and noticed that the Upgrade packages are (obviously…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition virtual machines licenses

It is known that with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition you get to run 4 virtual machines with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition. Problem is that we don't know where to get the license key for them. Should we use the same license key…
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Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Related to Windows web server for in-house apps?, but with a twist. Is a W2K8 Web Server licence acceptable for a web-based application with the following…
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Amazon EC2: Can we use our own license for Suse Linux?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have an existing SUSE Linux server with license we want to move to Amazon EC2. I want to know if we can pay the standard Linux prices if using our own license, or if we…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 DC and MSDN

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? This question would be for anyone that has downloaded from MSDN Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Centre edition and set it up in a Hyper-V / VM environment (Note: this is for a…
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Windows License Logging Server

When I first setup a Windows 2000 and then 2003 Server in our office using per-server licensing, we got the default 5-user CAL pack. I noticed that after 3 users logged in, the Server would kick out a notice that I had too many people has logged…
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SQL Server Management Studio licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have a SQL Server 2008 server, licensed per processor. If I want to install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) on a couple of desktop PCs (in order to connect to the…
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Where can you buy a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Service license?

Only place I really could find was ebay and Amazon... both seemed a bit sketchy. I just need two.. It needs to be per-device as well.
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Position of Microsoft technologies in the web industry?

I've seen it's quite rare to see huge websites running on Microsoft technologies like Windows Server, IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, take by example all the "bigs" known websites (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube), they all runs a (sometime modified)…
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What software is available for managing software licenses and hardware serial numbers?

I have to manage an increasing number of software licenses and hardware serial numbers across a growing company. To date this has been done using spreadsheets but this is a particularly inflexible solution. Can any other IT managers out there…
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Windows licensing of a virtual copy of 2003 server standard edition

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a licensed instance of 2003 server standard edition on a physical server. can i also then run a third party virtual instance of the same server on the physical…
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Windows 2008 CAL vs RDS CAL

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Looking at the Win2k8 licensing page here and it appears to me that if I want to have a server to accept Remote Desktop Connections from say 30 users concurrently, I would…
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Checking whether product key will work with SBS 2003

We've recently absorbed a small company who had a Dell PowerEdge server running SBS 2003. For some reason, the hard disks have been wiped. We have the product key though from the sticker on the side of the case but not the installation media: Win…
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