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Quick Exchange Licensing Question
Hey Guys'n'Gals,
We have received conflicting information from our vendors on licensing Exchange users.
Does every Exchange User CAL also require a regular Server CAL? Or is the only license necessary to add a user to your Exchange Server the Exchange User CAL?
Thanks for your help,
Patrick
We have received conflicting information from our vendors on licensing Exchange users.
Does every Exchange User CAL also require a regular Server CAL? Or is the only license necessary to add a user to your Exchange Server the Exchange User CAL?
Thanks for your help,
Patrick
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Think about the licences as keys to a room or an office.
If you one to have a mailbox(office/room) you need to give one a key to get into to it or have access to it. So if you have 1 mailbox per user/device/room you will need an Exchange User License (CAL) for it.
Now, apply the same to Windows Server (file servers) and users accessing your AD and shares on the same environment. Here you will also need a CAL per user/device accessing your files in or out of the environment.
Keep in mind you may not need to have all users or rooms with a mailbox so you don't have to match the amounts of CALs for both. You can have 100 CALs for file server and 80 for Exchange if you have 20 user not needing email. In that same area, you can have mailboxes that had a user in the past but now they are just kept for reference and another user has access to it; therefore you can have more mailboxes than users on your system.
Maybe the confusion raised because you are moving from SBS2003 which licenses where different. Or maybe because your vendor is assuming if you need 40 server CALs you need the same for Exchange.
But to be simple.... YES!!!! you need CALs for server access (file servers) and for Exchange.
DISCLAIMER: Licensing advice offered here is a "best effort" based on the understanding of the respondents. Licenses requirement varies from environment requirements and can change and we may not be aware of these changes or may misunderstand them. All licensing questions should be confirmed with the appropriate licensing authority (the maker of the software/issuer of the license) according to your specific needs.
If you one to have a mailbox(office/room) you need to give one a key to get into to it or have access to it. So if you have 1 mailbox per user/device/room you will need an Exchange User License (CAL) for it.
Now, apply the same to Windows Server (file servers) and users accessing your AD and shares on the same environment. Here you will also need a CAL per user/device accessing your files in or out of the environment.
Keep in mind you may not need to have all users or rooms with a mailbox so you don't have to match the amounts of CALs for both. You can have 100 CALs for file server and 80 for Exchange if you have 20 user not needing email. In that same area, you can have mailboxes that had a user in the past but now they are just kept for reference and another user has access to it; therefore you can have more mailboxes than users on your system.
Maybe the confusion raised because you are moving from SBS2003 which licenses where different. Or maybe because your vendor is assuming if you need 40 server CALs you need the same for Exchange.
But to be simple.... YES!!!! you need CALs for server access (file servers) and for Exchange.
DISCLAIMER: Licensing advice offered here is a "best effort" based on the understanding of the respondents. Licenses requirement varies from environment requirements and can change and we may not be aware of these changes or may misunderstand them. All licensing questions should be confirmed with the appropriate licensing authority (the maker of the software/issuer of the license) according to your specific needs.
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Thanks everyone for your input - that clears it up for me!
server use server licence
so for example, you have 5 exchange servers
you might need 3 standard servers licence and 2 enteprise servers licence (usually for mailbox database greater than 5)
then, you have user CALS
for user CALS there is standard and enterprise
in order to use user enterprise CALS, you need to have standard CALS.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/exchange/microsoft-exchange-server-licensing-licensing-overview-FX103746915.aspx
this is the same for exchange 2007, 2010
exchange 2003 is different