Re: CALs for SharePoint Intranet access

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Yep. That's how it works. The only way around it is to make your intranet
publicly accessible...in which case it's not really an intranet, then. ;0)

Exactly. We've had a clarification from MS that if it were to be made
an Extranet, then the Internet license would cover it, even if
employees were to access this Extranet. However, if the content on the
Extranet is internal in nature, then that area of the Extranet will be
considered an Intranet, even if external people can access it..... It
really is a minefield!

The CAL licensing is purely arbitary on MS's part and, yea, really
expensive.

Personally, I'd never invest in SharePoint JUST for use as a CMS. Like many
commercial CMSes it's bloated and restricting much of the time. Have you
looked at dotnetnuke?

Thanks for that, have passed that on to one of our technical leads to
look at.... if we're going to run into this licensing nightmare on a
regular basis, having an alternate solution in our bag will be really
handy.....


Alternatively, do you NEED the CMS features on the intranet? Can you get buy
with good ol' team sites out of the box with WSS3?

They have an Intranet already with a basic CMS and they really don't
want to go 'backwards' in terms of the CMS capabilities.... though
WSS3 gives some useful functionality, they see the CMS capabilities as
the deal breaker/maker.


And if that's all you're doing, IMHO, Sharepoint isn't the product for
that. That's WAY overkill.

Yep, I agree, but they have lots of future plans to extend use of
Sharepoint in the future. If we could find a way for them to get it
implemented as a basic Intranet CMS, in time they would commit to it
more fully and increase their CALs, ultimately having all 3,500 users
with CALs, but as a year on year investment rather than as a one-off
bulk cost!

Thanks for your help. We'll look at dotnetnuke. But, if anyone has any
suggestions on the £100k's of CALs required just to view HTML, all
inout will be gratefully received, we'd still like to have a
SharePoint based solution to offer if we can, since this is where the
client wants to be going strategically.

Regards,

.

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