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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx</a><br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/client-licensing.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/client-licensing.aspx</a><br />
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and:<br />
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<a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/c/eecf5d44-9a88-43d8-afdb-d2ab82be035c/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/c/eecf5d44-9a88-43d8-afdb-d2ab82be035c/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf</a><br />

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing.aspx]
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/client-licensing.aspx [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/client-licensing.aspx]

and:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/c/eecf5d44-9a88-43d8-afdb-d2ab82be035c/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf [http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/c/eecf5d44-9a88-43d8-afdb-d2ab82be035c/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf]


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The solution is to call MS or any other licensing party about licensing questions.
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The solution is to call MS or any other licensing party about licensing questions.

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Hi, can someone explain user CAL and device CAL licensing? I need to purchase a few 2008 server licenses and need to figure out what is best. If I have a server suck as a SMTP server I would just need like a 5 user CAL license correct? Since eventhough 1000's of people use the SMTP server to relay messages there are only a few sys admins that actually login to the server. 
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Hi, can someone explain user CAL and device CAL licensing? I need to purchase a few 2008 server licenses and need to figure out what is best. If I have a server suck as a SMTP server I would just need like a 5 user CAL license correct? Since eventhough 1000's of people use the SMTP server to relay messages there are only a few sys admins that actually login to the server. 

Windows 2008 server licensing question

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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).