Re: Device or User CAL needed?
- From: "Chad Hooper" <chadh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:22:45 +0100
If you go down the Device CALs route, you need a CAL for every device on your network. This is best used when you have more user accounts than computers.
If you go down the User CALs route, you need a CAL for every user account on your network. This is best used when you have more computers than user accounts.
If I understand correctly, you are setting up one or two user accounts that will potentially be used by a large number of different devices. In that situation, you will be better off with User CALs.
The above is all assuming that I have correctly grasped the concept of the User/Device licencing scheme :). Since most of my clients are small businesses using SBS with the same number of devices and users, it has never really been an issue for me.
Hope that helps.
Chad Hooper
MCSE (NT,2000,2003)
"GC Email Manager" <GCEmailManager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AAE62F64-5D06-49CD-942B-73674624899B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can someone help me understand whether or not we are required to buy CALs for
this situation:
We have guests visiting the college. We have a wireless access point that we
currently use AD authentication for so we can restrict it to certain users.
Those users have AD accounts and Exchange mailboxes.
However for the guests they won't have permanent accounts specific to
themselves. They won't have mailboxes. But we want to give them a generic AD
account to use for access (like Username:P@ssw0rd). Do we need CALs for this?
Our current campus agreement has no CALs associated with Active Directory
specifically and they won't be using the generic account to access any
Windows server.
Thanks for the help.
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