Thanks for the quick reply and explanation! I do have a further question from this point... How do you define what kind of access to a server is required? You said that for example... a company with only a couple of admins that need to connect you would use per sever.... Does being a machine which is part of a domain count as connecting to a server? sorry, finding this hard to explain, i'm completely confused! It's odd how i can know everything else perfectly but not this!
Say for example... you have 40 users, working on 40 client machines running XP pro, and One Domain Controller running 2k3.... the Admin works on the domain controller directly... would you choose Per sever for the server because only the Admin works connects to manipulate it in any way, and Per seat for the XP machines? or would that result in 41 licenses where per server would encorporate all of them?
i guess that's where i get confused... i don't quite understand what level of connectivity is implied by "access to 2 servers" if they are merely part of the domain..are they accessing the server? or does it relate to say..file servers where shared resources are held?
The reason i'm finding this so hard is that it's new to me..the rest of the exam is old news, but none of my personal work, course, or literature covers licensing in detail for some reason.
From what I understand of your example... per server allows you whatever you state as the maximum possible users that will ever access that server at any one time, is that correct? so if you have 2 servers and 20 work stations.... all 20 work stations could be connected to either server at any time...so you need 20 possible connections within the per server license on each server? thus equating to 40 licenses because you need 20 for each server...wheras per seat you would only ever require the total amount of computers in the domain... so you only require the 20 workstations to be licensed...i think?
Thanks for listening!! Sorry if this post is confusing!