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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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Licensing fee for BDB (Berkeley DB)

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Does anyone know how much Oracle charges for using BDB (Berkeley Database) in a dual-licensed open-source+commercial application? While Tokyo Cabinet…
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Protect the Key?

I have a dozen or so older desktop machines lying about. (laying about?) We'd like to loan them to some non-profits for web browsing purposes. On the cheap, of course. We have XP volume license. The plan was to put a clean copy of XP on 'em then…
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How does Windows Small Business Server 2003 count users toward the 75 user limit?

Possible Duplicate: Do we need CALs for our clients if we store their user accounts for third party apps in Active Directory? We are considering storing accounts for our third party FTP server in Active Directory. These users are not the normal…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard + Essentials Setup for Small Office

We want to setup a "small" server for on of our offices (8 Client Computers, local Domain not linked). We need to have an Exchange Server. Unfortunately we cannot use SBS since its support is running out. We already do have a Windows Server 2012 R2…
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How to install CAL for RemoteFX on Server 2012 Standard

I had to enable RemoteFX to be able to use a video card on my Server for Hyper-V 2012. I have ran out of the grace period for Remote Desktop Session Host Server. I have tired to install the CALs that I have purchased, however I don't get the option…
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Old SQL installation media

We have MSSQL Server 2008 R2 licenses. We have an Action Pack subscription, which provides us SQL 2014. But we just need the installation media for 2008 R2 so that we can install Reporting Services. We are not prepared today to urgently upgrade our…
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How to determine if Server 2003 software is valid online?

What is the best way to determine if the licensing for Server software purchased online is valid for our company? For example, this copy of Server 2003 seems entirely too cheap (we are planning to migrate to Server 2003 from Linux, can't use Server…
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SBS 2011 CALs and Server 2012 / 2012 R2

I found this: Q. I want to have additional servers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 in my SBS 2011 Standard domain. Do I need additional CALs to access those servers? A. No. As long as those servers are within the Windows…
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How it possible to remove license from ESXi?

We have an existing ESXi 5.1, that we want to backup with Veeam. Veeam works only with free version, which actually fine by us as the server underused. Is there any way to remove the existing commercial license and switch back to free, without…
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Out of date VM tools - issue with MS licencing.

I had an issue recently, where vmware tools on a production server, went out of date and caused the server in question to become unlicensed, I noticed this completely by accident. The following error appeared when I tried to run the slmgr -dlv…
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SQL2008R2Std Maximum RAM per instance

In this page : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143685%28v=sql.105%29.aspx It's written that SQL 2008R2 Standard supports 64GB of RAM, but is it per instance? For SQL2012 (here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc645993.aspx ) it's…
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How can I get SQL 2012 Web Edition?

If I want to get a copy of SQL 2012 Web Edition, do I have to go through a hosting provider such as Rackspace? What about if I am in the MS Select program and a Volume Licensing account? How is it licensed? Is it also a per core license? Also, can I…
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Office 2013 KMS with KMS host on same computer

Well, initially I wanted to run my KMS Host on Windows Server 2008 (non R2),but the KMS host version for Office 2013 is incompatible... I finally relented and installed the KMS Host on Windows 7 (my workstation). I've got 6 machines going with…
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Windows Server and SQL Server Licenses

I have the following servers: PROD: 2 x web servers (content delivery) 1 x cms server 2 x database servers (SQL) UAT: 1 x web server (content delivery + cms) 1 x database server (SQL) I'm a bit confused with the SQL server 2012's User CAL…
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Microsoft licensing in a virtualized environment questions

I plan on deploying two physical servers which will run VMware ESXi and have a number of questions regarding Microsoft licensing. To note, all the VMs on the servers will be configured to run in ESXi's fault tolerance mode. This means that all the…
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