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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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Microsoft Licensing - Can I use the wrong product key?

We are in the process of moving our Microsoft software licensing from Microsoft Action Pack Subscription to Open Value Licensing. We have enough licenses for all the software that we have purchased via OVL, but we still have the MAPS installations…
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SQL Server Trial Edition to Full Edition

I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 for the 180 day trial. We tested the system and it's working fine, and I wanted to convert it to full version. The problem is, I have a volume key licence to SQL Server, and the Microsoft support says that there is no…
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Are you Familiar with the Microsoft 'Internal Use' License?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? So I'd like to make sure we're keeping with the spirit and letter of the various licenses we have. Some of our Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) memberships will provide us…
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VMWare - Windows XP guest licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? If I have a VMWare ESXi server with 4 Windows XP guests running on it, I understand that I need a separate license for each guest. Is there a way to simplify license…
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Is it me or it's realy not easy to get information about Microsoft Product Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? How can we get the real information about the licensing on Microsoft product. I try to get the number of mailbox i can create with a license of exchange, and il could not…
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VMs running on Hyper-V Server 2016

I misread something or I'm doing a terrible mistake here, hopefully you guys can help me. I have set up a Hyper-V Server 2016 on my physical machine (or bare metal as it's called) which has 1 processor with 4 cores. Afterwards, I connected with…
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Microsoft licensing and IT test servers

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? It's pretty common to hear people recommend using a "test server" for testing everything from backup/restore to software patches. Some Microsoft server products are fairly…
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Getting key for Microsoft Office downgrade

I need to install Microsoft Office 2003 for some reasons related to compatibility with Luddites. I can buy an Office 2007 "open license" at the university where I am a faculty member, and I have seen the Microsoft downgrade chart which states that I…
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SQL Server 1 processor license on dual processor system?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Can I run a 1 processor license of SQL Server on a 2 processor system without breaking the license ? I'm not talking about cores but two physical cpu's, 8 cores total. As I…
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Does Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 support RDS?

I need to know whether Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 supports RDS (Remote Desktop Services) a.k.a. Terminal Services. On a separate note (I would accept an answer without it): would I need RDS CALs to access the service?
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How can I remove "Red Hat Network Code" from the RedHat?

The question is: How can I remove "Red Hat Network Code" from the system and what this "Network Code" actually is? The background of this question is related to the RedHat subscription as according to the official FAQ: You can still use RedHat…
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Terminal Server Licensing (per device) in a dual boot environment: 1 or 2 licenses per PC?

in our company I have a few computers that are already Windows 7 clients to a Windows Server 2008 R2 but are now supposed to receive an additional Linux installation as a dual-boot option. The licensing mode on the terminal server is set to "per…
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Does vSphere client restrict the number of cores for VMs?

We just installed it on our new server and have found that using the vSphere client we cannot create a virtual machine with more than 32 cores (Our host has 64). Is this normal behaviour? We haven't added our licences yet but the trial version we're…
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PXE bootable image for terminal server?

We have 300 windows xp machines on cruddy old hardware across the company. With extended support for XP ending April next year we're looking into our options. Couple of options: Replace the 300 PC's with full windows 7 PC's (£100k +?) - no use of…
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Windows Licensing for Virtual Machine (VirtualPC) Usage

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We're looking to implement a continuous integration/build machine process that will build our product and deploy automatically into a virtual machine (copied from a base VHD…
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