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We are about to upgrade our nt domain to Windows 2003 domain.
We bought servers licesenses for all our production servers.
My question is, do I need to purshase CALs for my users as well?
Thanks
 
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Claudio wrote:
> We are about to upgrade our nt domain to Windows 2003 domain.
> We bought servers licesenses for all our production servers.
> My question is, do I need to purshase CALs for my users as well?
> Thanks

Yes. That's the whole point.
Server license + CAL's for each user or device.
If you choose user, then you need to make sure each user in your
organization is given a unique login account to prevent confusion.

The good news is that you don't need to buy CAL's for each server
separately. IE: 100 users with 2 servers requires 100CAL's not 200 (100
users for each server). Once that user or device has a CAL they can
connect to any Windows server at the version of the CAL or lower. So
buy the most recent version CAL (2003). I think they removed the
windows 2000 CALs from sale but if not make sure you always buy the
latest version even if you are using older servers.

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Can you have one generic account that people use - mainly to just term serv
in to look at generally accessible documents - so as not to burn too many
cals for casual users?

"Mike Drechsler - SPAM PROTECTED EMAIL" wrote:

> Claudio wrote:
> > We are about to upgrade our nt domain to Windows 2003 domain.
> > We bought servers licesenses for all our production servers.
> > My question is, do I need to purshase CALs for my users as well?
> > Thanks
>
> Yes. That's the whole point.
> Server license + CAL's for each user or device.
> If you choose user, then you need to make sure each user in your
> organization is given a unique login account to prevent confusion.
>
> The good news is that you don't need to buy CAL's for each server
> separately. IE: 100 users with 2 servers requires 100CAL's not 200 (100
> users for each server). Once that user or device has a CAL they can
> connect to any Windows server at the version of the CAL or lower. So
> buy the most recent version CAL (2003). I think they removed the
> windows 2000 CALs from sale but if not make sure you always buy the
> latest version even if you are using older servers.
>
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> Please remove the -deletethispart-. section before replying directly.
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Ken wrote:
> Can you have one generic account that people use - mainly to just term serv
> in to look at generally accessible documents - so as not to burn too many
> cals for casual users?
>
> "Mike Drechsler - SPAM PROTECTED EMAIL" wrote:
>
>
>>Claudio wrote:
>>
>>>We are about to upgrade our nt domain to Windows 2003 domain.
>>>We bought servers licesenses for all our production servers.
>>>My question is, do I need to purshase CALs for my users as well?
>>>Thanks
>>
>>Yes. That's the whole point.
>>Server license + CAL's for each user or device.
>>If you choose user, then you need to make sure each user in your
>>organization is given a unique login account to prevent confusion.
>>
>>The good news is that you don't need to buy CAL's for each server
>>separately. IE: 100 users with 2 servers requires 100CAL's not 200 (100
>>users for each server). Once that user or device has a CAL they can
>>connect to any Windows server at the version of the CAL or lower. So
>>buy the most recent version CAL (2003). I think they removed the
>>windows 2000 CALs from sale but if not make sure you always buy the
>>latest version even if you are using older servers.
>>
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>>Please remove the -deletethispart-. section before replying directly.
>>Mike Drechsler (mike-newsgroup@-deletethispart-.upcraft.com)
>>

No.



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