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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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Are licenses for OSS required when purchasing hosting?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I'm a developer and while working on a project a question came up about licensing. The web application I'm working on will be closed source and we are looking at a few…
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2008 Datacenter over Enterprise

What are the advantages using windows 2008 Datacenter over Enterprise licensing ? Thanks.
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How can I transfer a SQL Server 2005 license?

I have the a wrong license number in one SQL Server. What's gone down is this: We virtualized a physical server, effectively cloning its software and licenses - SQL Server included. We want to repurpose the physical machine by keeping SQL Server and…
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How many times can I reinstall SQL Server 2008 using the same product key?

I have attempted to install SQL Server 2008 twice so far, but have gotten errors. Would like to try again. Is there a limited number of times that the same product key can be used before I have problems?
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Where do you buy your Microsoft software licenses?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Our company needs to buy Microsoft software Licenses for our project soon and I there are so many places to buy I don't know where to trust. We need Windows Server 2008…
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Microsoft Office 2007 Terminal Servers Licensing Requirements

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? If I have a Terminal Server that is accessed by 50 users, how many keys do I need for all users to have access to Microsoft Office? I know that only office editions with VLK…
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How can I assign a vSphere Tanzu license to a Supervisor Cluster programmatically?

I have a vSphere Tanzu license already available in my vCenter Server. Now I want to assign that license to a Supervisor Cluster. It works through the vSphere Webclient manually, but I need to do it programmatically in an IaC context. I already…
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Windows Server 2008 Licensing - Legitimate Loophole...?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a Windows server which requires many (~200) remote servers to dump stats on it. The way I understand the licensing is that I would require a Windows Server license…
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Expired licenses - unused computers

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have around 20 licenses that have expired. The programs that came with the license is still installed on the computers but has since the license expired been unplugged…
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Can I limit IIS to use one rather than two processors?

Our ASP.NET app uses a component that is licensed by the number of processor cores. Unfortunately, our customer wants to deploy the app onto a multi-function server (IIS, SQL Server, file server, etc.) that exceeds the number of processor cores for…
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How many cores can each VM have with free ESXi?

I am a bit confused about VMware's licensing with vSphere Hypervisor (the free one). I have a server with 2 X5650 Intel processors which have 6 cores each and 12 threads. What would be the maximum number of cores I can allocate to a single VM…
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Windows Server CAL in Intranet Application

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I'm a little bit confused about CAL and Windows Server Licensing. If I have one Windows Server, and I'm using it's IIS for serving web pages in intranet environment of 100…
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Upgrading hardware and converting current host OS to a VM - any catches?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I am currently using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my dev machine (where I am writing this post from). I also currently use VMWare Server and several VMs, all running Windows…
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Licensing multiple local Window guest VMs

I have a client who needs their users to run multiple local Windows virtual machines on their laptops. Some users have 3-5 VMs, while others have 10+. I'm aware of the following two routes for licensing guest (desktop) operating systems: Purchase a…
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Office 365 - swap subscriptions of two users

My organization has two active Office 365 subscriptions - Business Essentials and Business Premium. I want to swap the subscription of two users - the one with Essentials to get Premium, and the one with Premium to get Essentials. I believe I did…
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