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Jules Winfield
I've researched Microsoft's site and am still having difficulty
understanding what type of licenses I need. Here's the situation:
I have 11 servers, each one of which is running Microsoft Windows 2003
Server Standard. I own a server license for each one of these.
I am the only human user on the network. Aside from the Administrator
account and the default user accounts that come preinstalled, my own user
account is only domain account that has been added to Active Directory.
There are thousands of users that connect to my network from the Internet,
but they do NOT make use of Windows authentication. They are authenticated
either via my web site or via a custom Windows application that I designed,
but never via Active Directory.
The servers on the network connect to each other via UNC path quite
frequently, but always under the credentials of my user account.
I have one XP machine that I use from home to connect to the network
described above. I use Microsoft's built-in VPN (PPTP) technology which
authenticates using my Active Directory user account and once inside the
network, I use Remote Desktop to access the individual machines. Logging on
via Remote Desktop also obviously requires Active Directory authentication.
So, how many CALs (if any) do I need? I'm thinking that I need one for my XP
machine which authenticates with the Microsoft VPN (ISA Server). I'll also
need one for the Remote Desktop connection which is established concurrently
with the VPN connection. But do I need CALs for the connections used when
the servers communicate with one another [file sharing via UNC]? When one
server connects to another, is the former considered a "client" that would
require a CAL?
If I'm right, I should be able to simply puchase the CAL 5-pack, correct?
Thanks...
Jules Winfield
understanding what type of licenses I need. Here's the situation:
I have 11 servers, each one of which is running Microsoft Windows 2003
Server Standard. I own a server license for each one of these.
I am the only human user on the network. Aside from the Administrator
account and the default user accounts that come preinstalled, my own user
account is only domain account that has been added to Active Directory.
There are thousands of users that connect to my network from the Internet,
but they do NOT make use of Windows authentication. They are authenticated
either via my web site or via a custom Windows application that I designed,
but never via Active Directory.
The servers on the network connect to each other via UNC path quite
frequently, but always under the credentials of my user account.
I have one XP machine that I use from home to connect to the network
described above. I use Microsoft's built-in VPN (PPTP) technology which
authenticates using my Active Directory user account and once inside the
network, I use Remote Desktop to access the individual machines. Logging on
via Remote Desktop also obviously requires Active Directory authentication.
So, how many CALs (if any) do I need? I'm thinking that I need one for my XP
machine which authenticates with the Microsoft VPN (ISA Server). I'll also
need one for the Remote Desktop connection which is established concurrently
with the VPN connection. But do I need CALs for the connections used when
the servers communicate with one another [file sharing via UNC]? When one
server connects to another, is the former considered a "client" that would
require a CAL?
If I'm right, I should be able to simply puchase the CAL 5-pack, correct?
Thanks...
Jules Winfield