RE: SBS 2003 User CALS

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>Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:44:56 -0600
>From: Santy Balan <santosh2u@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Hi,
>
>We brought a new Win 2003 SBS server with default 5 user CALs. We had
>20-25 users on this. We had requisitioned our Financial department for
>additional 20 CALsbut with their paper work, the funds got delayed by
>couple days.
>
>Meanwhile on the second day I started getting message in the "Licensing
>tab" 4 users out of 5 CALS - though we had 15 of them on that day.
>Similarly on the next passing day, it kept mounting - 4th or 5th day,
>it said, using 7 of 5 Licenses. On the 6th day, it started giving me
>error message on the Server Terminal - You have exceeded ..... and an
>OK button.
>
>One of my user also got message during a sharing, "the server has
>enough connections..." and did not get the shared directrory.
>
>Does anybody know how this is going to go in future. Is it going to
>kick off the users after some days ? Is only 5 concurrent users going
>to get connection ?
>
>I have already brought additional 20 user CALs, but my User base may
>dynamically increase in addition to these 20 + 5 (temporarily) and
>will take some time to understand how many licenses will I need
>finally.
>
>How does SBS 2003 behave in such cases ? Any ideas ?
>
>Thanx.
>
>
>- Santosh Balan
>

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