Sharepoint Licensing Requirements 1

[baronne]

Hi,

We're in the very early stages of planning a Sharepoint Portal Server project. We intend to split the web front-end, index server and database server into three separate servers. We already have the SQL Server anyway, but I was wondering if we need a separate license for each component of the sharepoint portal server, ie. 1 license for the web front end, 1 license for the index server, etc.etc.
Does it work like that?

Cheers

Baronne


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[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Yes, you will need one license per server where you install SharePoint Portal Server (even though you are using one for web, one for index etc.)

Cheers,
Thomas

http://www.thompa.se

 

[baronne]

so do you actually install sharepoint portal server on a machine that's an index server? ...hmm... interesting. I'll have to check it out.

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[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Yes you need to install SharePoint Portal Server on the machine that will be the index server. It is SharePoint Portal Server that will handle (create) the index.

I am running a medium server farm with 2 front end webservers/search and 1 index/job server and for that I need 3 SharePoint Portal Server licenses.

Cheers,
Thomas

http://www.thompa.se