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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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Getting slmgr.vbs output, and/or Windows licensing status reports across multiple servers

I've got a number of Windows Servers that I've recently taken ownership on, and I'm looking to do a report on how these are licensed. I know it's a mix between KMS and MAK licensing, but I'm trying to find a way of generating a report showing me the…
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Running virtual WinXP in Win7, is there something similiar for Windows 2008 server

I'm going to get a new server probably with OS Win2008 Server. That server will run some VM. Some with Linux, others with Windows. Grant the Win2008 server license similiar rights to run e.g. Win2003 Server virtual instances, as Win7 desktop does…
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Server 2008 MSDN Developer's version different from Enterprise Server 2008?

We're running VMware and I've spent a bunch of time building a template based off of our MSDN Developers copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. The template was built for our development environment. We're ready for production now and need to…
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Is there a relation between MS SQL Server client licenses and performance

I have a customer who has an .Net application running on MS SQL Server 2008, supplied by our company as a part of Microsoft Small Business Server. He started off with around 5 users, and hence we had not sold any extra licenses. Today there are 40…
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Does anybody use "Site Licensing Servers" in AD? Why / why not?

Site Licensing Servers are a feature in Server 2003 that doesn't appear to exist as an actual service in Windows 2008R2. Does this service still exist? Is there any benefit to this at all?
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SQL Server License identification

We purchased a SQL server license with 10 user CALS, a while ago. How can I identify the users accessing the SQL server to make sure number of CALS match the number of users accessing the server? Is there some tool to achieve this? or may be some…
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Cisco support status lookup by serial number

Many vendors allow you to look at the support status of a device with no information besides a serial number. Does this exist for Cisco products?
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Citrix XenServer 5.5 Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are currently evaluating two free bare-metal virtualization product: VMware ESXi 4.0 and Citrix XenServer 5.5. While both look good on the reviews, we are curious about…
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Minimal licence needed to pause/resume virtual machine via vSphere CLI

I manage VMware ESXi 4.0 server running mix of Windows virtual machines. I've installed VMware vSphere CLI in hope to pause/resume virtual machine and copy its image to NFS datastore. I've got CLI up and running, I can list datastores, registered…
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Windows Server 2008 CALs for Windows Server 2008 R2

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Our existing setup has 3 servers running on Windows Server 2008 and there are 75 users in the office. We have a total of 80 Windows Server 2008 user CALs for this. We will…
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VMware vSphere Prices

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I know this is really a off-topic question, but it is so differcult to get a clear picture of the cost of a vSphere setup, you have prices from all direction, when you order…
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Is it possible to setup a Windows 2008 R2 KMS server for windows 7 Licensing only?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? The question is in the Title, I had the impression that you needed a Windows 2008 R2 KMS key to setup the KMS host, even if you wanted to activate Windows 7 licenses…
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Server license - to purchase or not?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? As an sys admins we need to provide our development team with both an integration and development environment. Spawning virtual machines would be a great option, right?…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 CALs and license distribution

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? When buying Windows Server 2008 R2 edition, I am offered 5 standard CALs (can be used either device or user based). So for instance, if I was to buy two Windows 2000 R2 OS,…
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how does cloudstack-oss differ from cloud.com?

the commercial offering (cloud.com) differs only by support? cloudstack OSS is licensed under GPL v3, is that good for commercial usage (unmodified binaries)?
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