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Jeff, thanks a lot! Reseting the license manager helped to bring the number of &quot;used licenses&quot; to what it should be. Thanks for the help!
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Jeff, thanks a lot! Reseting the license manager helped to bring the number of "used licenses" to what it should be. Thanks for the help!

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You're welcome! Since you seem to be new to EE, you might not know how to close out a question. Please review this help page for more information:

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If I understand correctly, administrative accounts under SBS 2003 do not require a CAL. Is that correct? Is that enough for an account to be in Admin group or it need to be in Admin group only - that is excluded from User groups? I have 10 non-administrative accounts that login regularly and several admin accounts that are used by services (BackupExec, Blackberry Enterprise Server, etc.), yet SBS claims I have 12 licenses in use. Is there a way to find out how that is calculated? For me this is a difference between fixing a glitch (if there is a fix...) or getting another 5pack CALs. Thanks!!!<br />
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P.S. I also have one non-admin account that never used and disabled Guest account. Does it make a difference? Is CAL taking when an account is authenticated or as long as account is there i need a license? Thanks!!!<br />

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If I understand correctly, administrative accounts under SBS 2003 do not require a CAL. Is that correct? Is that enough for an account to be in Admin group or it need to be in Admin group only - that is excluded from User groups? I have 10 non-administrative accounts that login regularly and several admin accounts that are used by services (BackupExec, Blackberry Enterprise Server, etc.), yet SBS claims I have 12 licenses in use. Is there a way to find out how that is calculated? For me this is a difference between fixing a glitch (if there is a fix...) or getting another 5pack CALs. Thanks!!!

P.S. I also have one non-admin account that never used and disabled Guest account. Does it make a difference? Is CAL taking when an account is authenticated or as long as account is there i need a license? Thanks!!!


User/Admin CALs in SBS 2003

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).

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).