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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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Grant a license for RDP from a remote machine?

Being a rather newbie server admin guy, I've stupidly overlooked the apparent need to renew remote desktop access licenses at my office, while I can presumably hook up a monitor and keyboard to server in it's rack mount (which is rather annoyingly…
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change microsoft windows OEM license to volume license?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We're in the process of migrating a large number of users to a newer version of an important software package that introduces a large number of system changes. We need to be…
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What Windows licenses are required to run additional terminal service sessions

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We need to build out a server running Windows 2008 R2 Standard that can allow up to 10 simultaneous RDP/Terminal Services connections and I'm a little confused about how the…
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Terminal Server Licenses

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Got a brand new DELL server with activated Windows 2008 OEM Standard Server. I noticed that i can have several remote desktops open at same time. Need i aquire additional…
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SQL Server Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are looking at moving our fractured code base that uses MySQL in some places and SQL Server in other places. I'm suggesting that for our purposes we don't need anything…
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How is Oracle Solaris 11.x licensed?

can this be used in a corporate LAB? as a storage server for DEV&TEST, not production. free to use for: Developing Testing Prototyping Demonstrating your applications how are the repository, packages supported? meaning can i always connect to…
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Use Windows Software with the least amount of Windows OS licenses

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? So as we slowly move towards web applications my company still has some legacy Windows applications we need to support - specifically Outlook, Quickbooks and UPS…
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What's the most cost effective way of purchasing Office 2010 for 40 PCs?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have 40 PCs currently running Office XP Standard (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). We're finally looking to upgrade them all to Office 2010, but it seems so…
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What happens if your Windows or Office Open License expires?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have 10 copies of Office 2007 that we purchased about 2 years ago on a Microsoft Open License (no Software Assurance). I recently got an email from Microsoft saying my…
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Upgrade Windows web server 2008 64 bit to Windows server 2008 R2 standard

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a server running on windows web server 2008, SP2(64 bit). I want to upgrade it to windows server 2008 R2 Standard edition. Do I need to buy a new windows server 2008…
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SQL Server 2005/2008 Licensing Decision

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Hello, I have purchased a dedicated server from a reputable Hosting company. They only have Windows Server 2008 OS installed on it and NO Sql server. Server Configuration is…
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Microsoft Certified Partner - Report

Does anyone know a way to report a company claiming to be a "Microsoft Certified Partner" when they aren't? Or a way to truly check if they are or not?
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OEM to Virtual Machine for Diaster Recovery / Business Continuity

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are trying to deploy a Business Continuity Appliance (Zenith BDR) for a customer and one of the features is the ability to bring up the failed server in a virtual machine…
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Licensing for Windows 7 Pro running in VM

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I'd like to install Windows 7 Pro as a VM on our ESXi server. Unfortunately Microsoft has made things extremely confusing and I don't know which type of license is required…
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shared SQL Database instance in DEV environment

I am in the process of consolidating sql 2000 and SQL 2005 databases and for the DEV environment the SQL Server instances are shared i.e. diff app databases share the same instance. What reasons/justification can I give for the app team as per the…
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