Re: Licenses

I dont remember nominating at install, device or user, the nomination as I
am aware is paper based only... you / your company keeps a manual record.

From your scenario 3 pcs so the server is calculating 3 device or 3 user at
present.

Add another workstation is fine.

If you add two workstations and you have five users sitting at each of those
pcs you are still ok and technically the server will be seeing them as
device cals. If say two users logs in from home then you now have 3 device
cals and 2 user cals and will still stay at the 5 licenses.

Now interesting scenario is if another employee joins. This person can log
into the 3 pcs whose users do not login from home and you will still stay at
5 licenses.

However if the user logs in to a pc of one of the users who login from home
then you will increase maximum usuage to six, everything will still work as
SBS gives youa little grace (never tested when it happens though) to obtain
new licenses.

Hope this helps


"coopfab" <coopfab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There's nothing to say whether they are user or device CALs. How can we
check? We have 5 users, 3 in addition to the supplied Administrator and
Guest, and 3 workstations.

Thanks

Michael

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M. Cooper


"Steve" wrote:

How many users do you have? Did you designate those original 5 CALs as
user
or device CALs? The server and printers don't use the CALs so looks like
you're OK to add up to 2 more workstations if those are designated as
device
CALs. If they are designated as user CALs and you have more than 5 users
then you'd need more CALs.

"coopfab" <coopfab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shown under licensing on the server; the number for "Installed" is 5
and
the
number for "Maximum usage" is 3.

We're running 1 server, 3 workstations and 3 printers.

We'd like to add another workstation. Are we maxed out?

Thanks

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M. Cooper





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