I have a client that hired me to deploy their network. They were supposed to purchas CAL's for their new SBS 2003 server. They did not. So they have only the 5 cals shipped with it, but they have about 30 workstations. I was adding workstations to the domain, setting up Outlook and printers, etc. when I realized they did not have enought CAL's. They are budgeted to order new CAL's and are placing the order tomorrow. However it can take a week or two to get them in. Is their a way to get 30 day licenses from Microsoft to hold them over until they CAL's come in? Any suggstions are appreciated.
It's not weird at all... if you look at the Licensing Snap-in on the server it will say that you have 5 CALs available, and probably have MAX Used of 16. Way out of line with more than 300% over, and definitely different than Robert's example of going about 40% over what was installed.
As I stated, if you hadn't logged into those workstations with separate user accounts then you could have avoided the problem. Of course, having 30 CALs would also have avoided the problem.
Jeff
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