2003 Cal Questions

[dfgu]

I've been reading up on CALs and it's still confusing to me.
I am currently running NT4 under per-seat licensing. Everyone in the company is either running XP Pro/NT4/2000 Pro.
If I upgrade to windows 2003 server, do I have to buy a CAL for each user? I thought that XP pro/2000 pro has device CAL already built in. I want to also run 2003 server under per-seat licensing.
Under NT 4, we only have 1 CAL and everything has been working fine because we use per-seat licensing.
Can someone please clear this up for me before I decide to upgrade and find out I have to purchase a CAL for each user.

Thanks,
Zhiyu

 

[Jpoandl]

I believe that you will have to update you CAL licensing to Windows 2003.


Q. I have some extra Windows 2000 CALs that are not being used. Can I apply these to a Windows 2003 server(s)?

A. No. A CAL must be the same version (or later) as the server it is accessing. Therefore, access to a Windows 2003 Server must be licensed with a Windows 2003 Device or User CAL.

You will have to buy new CALS when you install a new Windows 2003 server. Simply having a licensed version of the client operating system does not mean that you can connect to any server legally.

Here is a good link to check out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/priclicfaq.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsser...nsing/default.mspx#XSLTfullModule127121120120

If you have specific questions, you can call one of these resellers for free to get more information:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/purchasing/default.mspx

-later

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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