Device access to Microsoft Servers

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III)  Additional Licensing Requirements and/or Use Rights.
a)    Client Access Licenses (CALs).

You must acquire and assign a CAL to each device or user that accesses your instances of the server software directly or indirectly.  A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a separate device. The [...]

Discovering SQL Instances to help determine compliance

There are many Discovery tools on the market, from Snow to Centennial (FrontRange Solutions). However, If you are responding to a vendor audit, might be worth at exploring the following options.
Discovering Instances of SQL Server can be achieved using the Microsoft Assessment Planning Solution Accelerator (MAPSA) Tool.
Install the MAPSA tool from: ttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730&DisplayLang=en
Having discovered which machines [...]

Transfer of SQL Licenses to Datacenters

I have included below from a licensing perspective around transitioning to a datacenter.
Moving an instance of software from one server to another is not the same as reassigning a software license from one server to another. Moving an instance of software means to move the software bits from one server to another. Reassigning a software [...]

Licensing Microsoft Server Products in Virtual Environments

Microsoft places emphasis on assigning a license to one device. The reason for this designation is to remove sharing a license across more than one device concurrently.
The benefit of reviewing the way licenses are managed and attributed to both physical and virtual instances on a network ensure you leverage the   Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on Virtualization and avoid any surprises [...]

Licensing Office SharePoint Server

LICENSING OFFICE SHAREPOINT SERVER
Purchase a Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server licence for each server and CALs for either users or devices.
STANDARD and ENTERPRISE CALS
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 offers different levels of functionality, and there are CALs which correspond to this. The core functionality is linked to a Standard CAL assigned to a user [...]

Licensing Windows Essential Server Solutions

The Product Portfolio of Windows® Essential Server Solutions (WESS) is an integrated and affordable family of products designed for small and midsize businesses. Windows® Small Business Server (SBS) is available in Standard and Premium editions and is designed for businesses with between 5 and 75 users while Windows® Essential Business Server (EBS) is available in [...]

Licensing Exchange Server

SQL Server Licensing

 
 

Failover Licensing
Failover support, where servers are clustered together and set to pick up processing duties if one device should fail, is avaialable in both Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server 2008. Under each of these editions, keeping a passive server for failover purposed does not require a license as long as the passive server [...]

Licensing Windows Server 2008

Server Licence and CALs
Purchase a Server licence for each server, and then purchase Client Access Licences (CALs) for either users or devices.
CALs are version specific. They must be the same version or later than the server software being accessed.  A customer’s CALs permit access to servers licensed by that customer or its affiliate. An affiliate [...]