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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Which license do I get for Windows Server 2008

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I want to run a server with windows 2008. Which version license should I get? How many times can I install the license? Like if I reformat can I re-use the license? How many…
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Migrating Citrix XanApp Standard licenses from Win 2003 R2 32 bit to Win 2008 64 bit

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have migration question: Can I migrate Microsoft Terminal Server Licenses from Win2003 to Win2008? Can I migrate Citrix XenApp 5 Standard (Presentation Server 4.5)…
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How would Microsoft know that my MS SQL Server is Genuine and properly licensed?

All I have is just a Word Document inside the CD. My company purchased an SQL Server a long time. We contacted the ex-employee and he mentioned to us that the license can be found inside the SQL Installer CD. When we opened the SQL CD, we saw the…
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Is One CAL enough if only one Windows Service is doing all SQL Queries for Multiple Users

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have Microsoft SQL Server 2008 installed on a server. The license is 5 CAL I have a three tier solution viz database <-> Windows Service <-> User Multiple Users (More…
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Why doesn't Microsoft electronically stop unlicensed CAL users?

Imagine this Scenario. Say you purchased SQL Server 2008 under a 5 CAL License. A sixth person makes a query from his machine (e.g. through a VBScript). Why doesn't Microsoft put restrictions in the SQL software to stop this sixth connection? As…
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Am I allowed to add RDC to a WinPE boot Image?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I am trying to emulate what a user has suggested here: Use WDS to provide a WinPE image (that contains a RDC client) over PXE. While I have a working PXE WDS Server with a…
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Automatically accept License Agreements for 3rd party software?

I am running a Windows Server 2008 R2 server in our company. We create a log of accounts for our users which only use the server for a few days. We ae facing the issue that each new user has to accept lots of license agreements for all the 3rd party…
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ColdFusion MX 7 Licensing Issue?

I have a site running ColdFusion MX 7 which I know nothing about, but it was all working fine. All of a sudden, the whole thing seemed to crash and I started getting this error: The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected…
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how to organise visio and project installations

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Our company has maybe 10 users who require Visio and Project but only on an occassional basis. It would seem like overkill to purchase 10 separate copies of each. But the…
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2008 CALS for 2003 Term Server

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? When installing 2008 CALs on a 2008 licensing server for a 2003 Terminal Server should I install them as 08s or 03s? Also is there anything else I need to do besides…
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Which Windows 2008 License should I buy to virtualize it on Vmware?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I need to install Windows 2008 Standard as a virtualized operating system. Which license should I buy to spend less money and achieve a well working and legal installation?
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How do SQL Server Developer Edition licenses work?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We want to have a Development, Integration, and Production SQL Server at my company with about 20 developers having access to Development and Integration. I was wondering if…
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Upgrading Windows Server 2000 Terminal Server to 2003 R2

I have a Windows 2000 Terminal Server and I need to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 R2. What path do I need to take to do an in-place upgrade? My only choice is an in-place upgrade in this scenario. Do I use a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard CD or is…
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View Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server License Count

How can I view how many Terminal Server licenses are installed on a Windows Server 2000 machine? Normally you would look in Administrative tools -> Terminal Server Licensing, but there is not an entry for that in the start menu. I know there are…
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ASA A/S with CSC Module requirements?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Last weekend we tryed to cluster two ASA5510 in an active / Standby szenario. Unfortunatelly it failed, because one ASA has an CSC ASA-SSM-CSC-10-K9= (+ Secplus and 250user…
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