Re: CALs for SharePoint Intranet access

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It's really hairy isn't it.

My take (shall we be honest and say guess :) ?) is that you can use a copy of MOSS for Internet for your Intranet as well (under certain restricted circumstances) BUT your *Intranet* users will still need CALs.

In other words all it means is that you do not (as seemed initially to be the case) need to have a farm consisting of MOSS for Internet server(s) and a separate farm consisting of normal MOSS 2007 server(s) for your Intranet.

I.e. you save a lot of servers and duplication of content.

I hope that the difference is clear. Intranet users will (if I'm right) always need CALs. All the MOSS for Internet version does is omit the need for Internet users to have CALs.

The restrictions on use of the MOSS for Internet product for Intranet as well had originally something to do with "provided everyone has access to all the content" which meant that you couldn't put anything up in your Intranet and not let people on the Internet see it. That was hard if not impossible to achieve and so the wording of the licence has been changed.

(and yes it would be good if I could remember to what - I'll see if I can find a link)

Mike Walsh


darrel wrote:
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.

We were told the exact opposite, actually, which is no surprise. Even MS Sales folks have no clue about this beast of a product.

We thought the same thing...well, we'll just put our intranet on our external server, and have folks sign in with forms authentication.

In the end, they simply said 'if an employee is accessing content in Sharepoint, they need a CAL. Period.

They have an Intranet already with a basic CMS and they really don't
want to go 'backwards' in terms of the CMS capabilities....

Well, this is just MHO, of course, but I'm finding MOSS a step backword in many, many areas of functionality and flexibility. It's great at a few things, bad at more.

-Darrel



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