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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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Granting full global domain admin rights to license reseller?

We are buying Microsoft 365 licenses and the reseller is requesting full global domain admin rights in order to administer the licenses. I'm thinking, "no way in Hello Kitty", but maybe I'm being unrealistic. Is this a normal request? Is there a…
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How hypervisor updates lead to changes in dmidecode?

For licensing purposes our application (running on CentOS) uses the output of dmidecode to generate a system ID. Recently, with more of our customers using the software in virtual machines, we are facing the issue that minor updates of the…
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Windows Datacenter Server Licensing

my boss purchased a Windows 2019 Data center license. The issue is that a colleague installed it incorrectly, where he installed 2016 Standard on the Host and then tried to use license for the VM's. This meant that we could only install the license…
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Windows Server licensing when exporting VM from Google Cloud

I have a WS 2012 R2 VM running under Google Cloud Platform. It is using a datacenter WS license provided by Google. What are the options to export that VM to an on-premises infrastructure and keep WS running? Do I need a datacenter license or can I…
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Which licence covers all of Intune, Azure AD Premium and Office 365?

Not sure if this is the right stackexchange forum for this question, but I am wanting to deploy Azure AD Premium, MS Intune and Office 365. Is there one licence that covers all of these? From what I can see, I would need Enterprise Mobility +…
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SQL Server 2008 Web edition in a hosting plan?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Do any hosting companies offer SQL Server 2008 Web edition in a hosting plan. GoDaddy for instance offers Standard/Enterprise editions which raise the price by $200 or so a…
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Windows Server 2016 Standard License for VMS & RDS CAL

We are a small business with two HP Servers(HPE ProLiant DL380) virtualized with ESXi, containing 7 VMs of Windows Server OS(2016). As per Hardware documentation, each server has single processor with 10 cores each. So that should make 20 Cores…
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ESET Endpoint Protection - License will soon be overused

ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) keeps warning me that my license will soon be overused. The number of units in use, listed by License Management doesn't match the the number of computers I have listed on the Computers tab. What is the correct way…
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Vista to windows 7 upgrade

I am planning to upgrade from Windows vista business to windows 7 home. Can I perform a format on the system disk, boot from the installation DVD, and install the OS on it with it still having a valid license key? Is the OEM vista license key is…
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What are my options to run MS SQL 2012 on Amazon RDS for development if I only have MSDN license?

I want to run MS SQL 2012 SE BYOL on Amazon RDS under my own MSDN license but it looks like MSDN license doesn't allow me to run MS SQL unless I host it on the dedicated hardware Microsoft Volume Licensing Product Use Rights (July 2014) states,…
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Microsoft IUR - Internal useage rights licence

The Microsoft website isn't totally clear about the limitations of the internal rights license attained as part of a partnership. I'm trying to work out if development work would be permitted if it is for a customer project. From…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 under KVM

Usually I deal with Linux and other Unix-like OS, but now I have to set up Windows server to run some specific software. I can't have physical box for it, so I decide to buy and deploy Windows Server 2012 R2 on KVM virtual machine. Reading licensing…
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Resell SQL Server 2008 Volume Licenses

This may sound like a strange question, but it's incredibly relevant to my company. If it's legit to purchase previously used VL keys for SQL Server 2008 and have them legally transferred over to us through VLSC, that would fill a huge gap for…
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Red Hat Software Collections 1 Beta channel has 0 packages?

I want to install PHP 5.4 on a RHEL 6.x box as described in this Red Hat blog post. I have a valid subscription and have added the channel, but a yum repolist shows a status of 0 for the channel. rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhscl-1-beta …
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W2K8R2 DC: CALS necessary for auth-only users?

I'm currently setting up a POC installation of an internally developed web application. We are testing AD auth using the Python LDAP module. My question: does every authenticating web app user need a CAL? Or can we get by with just one device-CAL…
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