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Softwre policy violations in corporate environment
I am not over clued up on liscensing of corproate workstations and servers.
But how can a company violate its liscence agreement?
Say for example OS on servers workstations - how is the liscence applied to a new server/workstation - and how could you violate that?
Surely you pay for a liscence - it gets given to you - its applied somehow - and thats that?
How can there be any violation/law breaking going on? How can violation be identified?
But how can a company violate its liscence agreement?
Say for example OS on servers workstations - how is the liscence applied to a new server/workstation - and how could you violate that?
Surely you pay for a liscence - it gets given to you - its applied somehow - and thats that?
How can there be any violation/law breaking going on? How can violation be identified?
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Regarding knowing what is Freeware or Licensed, you just need to keep track of what is and what isnt im afraid But once again, packeted applications, CAL licenses and keeping track of servers / clients in the enviroments are the most common misses
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How is a liscence "applied" to a workstation/server - say for office/windows?
And when we say the trust companies - who can apply that liscence all over - is that legal ?
And when we say the trust companies - who can apply that liscence all over - is that legal ?
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Ideally just want to focus on MS software for this project and maybe citrix
Each software vendor has their own licensing structure, you need to read and understand their interpretation of software licensing.
Most use a simple one license per seat so meaning that for every user/PC you need to purchase a license.
A license is applied when it is installed, if a piece of software is installed on three workstations then you need three licenses to cover it. Unless of course you own a site license or a concurrent license.
Concurrent licensing means you own x licenses but you are aloud to install the software on as many workstations as you like but only x number can be run at any time.
The key to all this is to take each piece of software and understand it's licensing, all software houses have their own way of dealing with it.
Jawa29
Most use a simple one license per seat so meaning that for every user/PC you need to purchase a license.
A license is applied when it is installed, if a piece of software is installed on three workstations then you need three licenses to cover it. Unless of course you own a site license or a concurrent license.
Concurrent licensing means you own x licenses but you are aloud to install the software on as many workstations as you like but only x number can be run at any time.
The key to all this is to take each piece of software and understand it's licensing, all software houses have their own way of dealing with it.
Jawa29
Fully legal pma111, they give you a license you can use as much as you want, that you report every now and then so they can bill you.
We work it all out by having groups for EVERYTHING we have, (many of them are empty) So basicly, if you order Adobe professional (that we dont have packeted) we ask for the computer name and i add a group in AD to the users computer. When we decomission the computer i see everything he had.
When we need to know how many users have <insert application> i just check the AD and see there right away how many have it installed.
It requires some organization and planning but its better then loads of excel sheets (or overpaying since you dont really know exactly how many you have)...
We work it all out by having groups for EVERYTHING we have, (many of them are empty) So basicly, if you order Adobe professional (that we dont have packeted) we ask for the computer name and i add a group in AD to the users computer. When we decomission the computer i see everything he had.
When we need to know how many users have <insert application> i just check the AD and see there right away how many have it installed.
It requires some organization and planning but its better then loads of excel sheets (or overpaying since you dont really know exactly how many you have)...
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Is there any easy way to see liscence details on a windows XP machine? For the OS and office software that is.
Hi, what kind of details is it you want? More then seeing if it is an OEM license or somthing else it is pretty hard im afraid :(.
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