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Also I forgot to mention that you can 'recover' CAL's by monitoring the # of users authenticating to the network. It is a pain, but the reality is there is nothing built in to specifically says 'this cal belongs to this user', or at least not that I have seen. But in my experience, if you remove a user that no longer is authenticating, it should free up the license. There is a possibility that you may have to re-issue the CAL's after removing the users. The information from MS is very ambiguous at best.<br />
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Check this out: <a href="http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/cb2c0dbe-416d-4274-9ace-d095b84fd5c71033.mspx?mfr=true" rel="ugc nofollow">http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/cb2c0dbe-416d-4274-9ace-d095b84fd5c71033.mspx?mfr=true</a><br />

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Also I forgot to mention that you can 'recover' CAL's by monitoring the # of users authenticating to the network. It is a pain, but the reality is there is nothing built in to specifically says 'this cal belongs to this user', or at least not that I have seen. But in my experience, if you remove a user that no longer is authenticating, it should free up the license. There is a possibility that you may have to re-issue the CAL's after removing the users. The information from MS is very ambiguous at best.

Check this out: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/cb2c0dbe-416d-4274-9ace-d095b84fd5c71033.mspx?mfr=true [http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/cb2c0dbe-416d-4274-9ace-d095b84fd5c71033.mspx?mfr=true]


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I should also add that this is based on a per user scenario.
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I should also add that this is based on a per user scenario.

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I have a 2003 Small Business Server that was showing 17 out of 15 licenses in use. I purchased a 5 pack to bump it to 20, all of a sudden the count jumped to 20 of 20. <br />
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Question...... How do I find out what licenses are in use? Is there a way to recover unused licenses? I only have 11 computers in my environment. I have a few clients that POP email from Exchange, do those affect the count?<br />
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Any help would be appreciated.
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I have a 2003 Small Business Server that was showing 17 out of 15 licenses in use. I purchased a 5 pack to bump it to 20, all of a sudden the count jumped to 20 of 20. 

Question...... How do I find out what licenses are in use? Is there a way to recover unused licenses? I only have 11 computers in my environment. I have a few clients that POP email from Exchange, do those affect the count?

Any help would be appreciated.

2003 Small Business Server CAL recovery

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).