Microsoft Licencing
Hi All
Wonder if somebody can shed some light on this?
Basically we are looking into running some sort of DR for our site, and we are toying with the idea of running a mirror on another site but it will not be in full time use will just sync to our main site.
Now do we need to purchase user cal's for this "backup" site as well? or are the licences on our existing site ok to use on the backup site? Will they transfer in the event of a Disaster?
Or do we need to buy duplicates?
Any links to MS documentation on this would help
Regards
Wonder if somebody can shed some light on this?
Basically we are looking into running some sort of DR for our site, and we are toying with the idea of running a mirror on another site but it will not be in full time use will just sync to our main site.
Now do we need to purchase user cal's for this "backup" site as well? or are the licences on our existing site ok to use on the backup site? Will they transfer in the event of a Disaster?
Or do we need to buy duplicates?
Any links to MS documentation on this would help
Regards
no mortal man can answer questions like that :-)
joking aside there is a million ways you can go about it, but if i was you i would gear up for a fair amount of expense. In the past i thought i had an understanding of how things work but every time something else would crop up, i would provision funds for double of everything, definitely for the DR software
joking aside there is a million ways you can go about it, but if i was you i would gear up for a fair amount of expense. In the past i thought i had an understanding of how things work but every time something else would crop up, i would provision funds for double of everything, definitely for the DR software
The licenses should be good with all of the internal servers including the DR site.
What I would recommend is to call Microsoft or an Authorized dealer to confirm any licensing question since no one can give you 100% answers on licensing except for them.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/
Any of these answers on EE could be wrong even though we are experienced Admins licensing can change and to protect yourself I would call MS to confirm any of your concerns.
I have attached a lic book from MS.
What I would recommend is to call Microsoft or an Authorized dealer to confirm any licensing question since no one can give you 100% answers on licensing except for them.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/
Any of these answers on EE could be wrong even though we are experienced Admins licensing can change and to protect yourself I would call MS to confirm any of your concerns.
I have attached a lic book from MS.
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+1 darius
Obviously you will need everything on an email just in case, as it you get audited and something is wrong you need to be able to prove that you were told that by the Microsoft retailer
Obviously you will need everything on an email just in case, as it you get audited and something is wrong you need to be able to prove that you were told that by the Microsoft retailer
May I ask why did you give a grade of "B"?
if your cal's are user-specific (seat-license), then you can use these to connect to the backupsite as well.
If you have server-licenses or processor-licenses, then you'll need to purchase additional licenses for each of the servers.
A guide to this can be found at Microsoft