Re: User CALs

jonjof wrote:


Thanks - interesting observations.
When I refer to 15 staff users, these will specificially need access on
their own profiles [which will be roaming profiles], as they are
regular users and need e-mail - fax etc.and also need to log onto
different computers to where they might normally be stationed.
Following your advice I will stick to the 15 licences I have already
and have all the "testing" machines logged on with a single user
account.

How staff members access the SBS is immaterial, it's just that every access from a device by a user *must* have either the device or the user covered by a CAL.

If the test stations are used by staff that are not among your stated 15, then those are not currently covered (since the existing 15 CALs are allocated to the "regular" 15, and neither the additional testers nor the devices they're using have CALs).


A little off topic, I have been using a NT4 machine as a domain
controller for about 8 years now, running on a single 200 Mhz Pentium
Pro processor with 4 x 2 Ghz SCSI drives! and it boots faster and
responds faster on initial access to any settings than the dual 3 Ghz
dual Xeon machine that I have started using with the new SBS server.
I guess this is the cost of progress?

A plain DC that does nothing else should be pretty lightly loaded. You'd probably find that WS2003 in a similar configuration would probably be slightly quicker, and Win2K Server slightly slower (2003 has less installed than 2000).

Once I have accessed a specif function on the new server, it is quick
to access this function again.
I assume this is normal /expected behaviour with the newer server
operating system?
Hopefully as things have improved with XP over W2K, Microsoft will also
improve this aspect on the Server OS?

SBS is heavily weighted towards the server applications, and it schedules the "administrator" user behind everything else (a snappy server GUI is not terribly important in the grand scheme of things).

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