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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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Why would you activate Server Standard edition on a Datacenter Edition host?

Windows Server Datacenter Edition allows many things to include Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA). Using AVMA, you can activate equal to & lower & older editions than the host. I can understand the reason to go with older editions if you…
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Run SQL Server Standard 2017 Edition Together with SSRS 2017 Developer Edition

Has anybody ever tried running SQL Server 2017 Standard with SSRS Developer Edition and had it worked successfully? I'm setting up a client environment in Azure. This will be there production environment. We felt sql server 2017 standard made the…
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If I install vmware workstation v7 on top of v6.5, will it use the same lisence key?

If I install vmware workstation v7 on top of v6.5, will it use the same license key, or do I have to buy a v7 license?
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Hosting center has requested admin access to all our servers

I'm a small company having a few servers hosted in a managed hosting center, mainly Windows 2016 and a few Windows 2008 servers. I have now received a rather disturbing email where they request full admin access to all our servers due to a Microsoft…
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Licensing: Windows Server 2016 with Remote using

I want to buy one windows server 2016 standard license. As this server will locate in Data Center, I do need to remote to access when I want to use it. The user who manage it is only me (1 user), but sometimes I do need to remote from Mac or PC.…
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How many RDS CAL licenses do I need?

I have 1 server with OS Windows Server 2012R2 where I need to install Remote Desktop Services role. I know that without RDS CAL I can connect to this server via RDP 2 users but what when I need to connect 10 users? Do I have to buy all 10 CALs or…
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What MS licences would allow us to host client systems?

As I understand it, Microsoft licencing is tied to an organisation. My company is a gold partner and has volume licensing. We're toying with the idea of hosting some of our clients systems, but don't know whether our existing licensing allows…
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Office 365 mailbox quota doesn't match license

In Office 365, 9 of ~130 user accounts are assigned the license Office 365 Enterprise E3 which, according to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/exchange-online-limits.aspx#StorageLimits, should assign storage quotas of 100 GB to the…
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Are CAL licenses necessary for this?

I work in a company and I have been confronted with the following problem. I have to mount a server with windows 2012 Server R2 in which Active Directory will be installed to control the logins of about 25 users. A part will also install a…
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Microsoft Exchange Online Plan one Licence fee for additional user

I want to know how Microsoft will charge license fee for new license added to the same subscription, I contacted MS but didn't get much clarity from the guy or i was not able to understand what me is trying to say. I have directly purchase Exchange…
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Using MSDN Licenses on AWS EC2

I'm working on a project that requires the use of existing MSDN licenses to stand up Windows Server EC2 instances and, from what I understand, to remain license compliant these need to be provisioned on dedicated instances and/or hosts. I plan to…
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Transferring 2003 terminal server licenses from one server to another

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Does anyone know how to transfer terminal server licenses from one windows 2003 server standard edition to another. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kind…
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MS SQL Server 2014 license reusability

I have a MS SQL Server 2014 Standard license in my server. I need to restore a database in a different secondary machine to get data of a particular table from a backup. The problem is that this table is stored in a database of more than 10GB and I…
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Windows 2012 Remote Desktop License error

I am exactly in this situation: Windows 2012 remote access can't connect The RDS role was installed erroneously, and the grace period to decide the licensing mode was left to expire; when I tried to connect, I was greeted with (the Italian localized…
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Terminal Server Client Licenses

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? We have a new software project coming in and I need some advice for client licenses. (The people who are running the software are terribly hard to get answers out of). The…
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