Licensing Question? (mainly 70-290) 1

[haku04]

Hi, new here...really need some help! I've got several books and have completed a fairly in depth MCSE course.. but one part of the knowledge has consistently escaped me and is failing me in the practice exams repeatedly... and that is product licensing. Whilst i know how to apply these things in the OS etc... i'm having problems with the mathematics of choosing which licensing strategy (per server, per seat etc) to use... and i can't find a good source of information for this? Does anybody know of a link or a book or anything that might explain it well? i don't quite understand how you know the limit of people that will be accessing a server at any one time etc (to decide whether per server or per seat will be more effective)... i'm sure it's all very straight forward, it's just that i've stared at these books so long aobut it that my brain just won't understand!

Thanks for any help anybody can provide!

 

[Future00]

I'll take a crack at trying to explain it. It does get rather confusing.

Say you have 20 workstations that need to access 2 servers.

If you use Per Device/User you only need 20 to connect to either server. Because each user has there own license that is good to connect to any server.

If you used Per Server mode you would actually need 20 in each server. Total 40 licenses when you have only 20 users that need it.

So if you have a company with only a couple admins that need to connect to the servers then your better off with Per Server mode.

It really does take some thought but once you get the idea it becomes slightly clearer.

Ryan

 

[haku04]

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!

 

[Future00]

I know what your saying. From the way I understand it, any workstation that needs to use server services like file shares or printing and so on is required to have a license.

So back to the 40 XP machines with 1 DC on 2k3. Being its only 1 server in the domain if thats your scenario then whichever is cheaper 40 for per server or 40 per client? If you had 2 servers then you would want the per client and not per server. You would need 40 on each server if you did Per Server. But since Per client gives access to any server then its cheaper to do it that way.

Now thats the way I understand it. I could be wrong but I think thats how it goes...

 

[haku04]

Thanks for helping me clear this one up! I really appreciate it.

 

[h5n1]

and that's on top of the xp client COA itself......M$$$$$$$$$$$$$$......lol

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