Re: User licensing

TP,

There are just under 3000 employees working in just under 1000 departments.
However, this application is small, and will require no more than 10 of those
3000 people to use the application at any one time, and probably more like 5
on average.

Their use would involve less than 10 minutes a day, resulting in maybe 50 to
100 minutes of actual time logged in each day across all departments. The
login can occur at any department computer, and each department has an
average of 3 computers.

We could not licensse on a per machine basis, since that would require
thousands of licenses and give far more capability than we need. I thought
we could license 10 roaming users. This would allow an employee to log in to
add a record to a database and log out from any one of their department
computers.

Appreciate your help in explaining how this works.

Thanks again,
Mark

"TP" wrote:

Hi Mark,

TS licensing is *not* concurrent. It is either Per Device or Per
User (named employee). Licenses can be reassigned away from
one device/user to another but the reassignment must be
permanent *except* in the case of when you use a temporary
replacement device (in the case of the primary device needing
repair) or a temporary employee (in the case of a temp worker
filling in while an employee is out).

The same is true for Windows CALs if you choose the
Per Device/Per User option for those. Other software have
different licensing requirements, for example, Office is licensed
Per Device.

You should count up the total number of devices and employees
that will be connecting and based on that choose between
Per Device or Per User or a mix of the two. If you post more
information regarding the number of PCs, employees, employees
that need to roam, etc., I will give you more advice.

Thanks.

-TP

Markus wrote:
I am planning to install Server 2003 and need some advice on
licensing.

My client needs a maximum of 10 concurrent users using an application.
However, they have hundreds of employees, any one of which could be
one of the 10 concurrent users.

On the server side, I understand Server 2003 comes with 5 CALs, so I
assume
I will need 5 additional CALs. But am not sure what other licenses I
need.

I read about roaming users, and would assume I need per user
licensing for 10 roaming users, since the 10 users on any one day
could log in from different departments and so different devices.

Could someone clarify just what licensing I would need for this
configuration.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Mark

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