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SBS 2011 CALs for Windows Mobile Phone

I've recently obtained a new client and am trying to clean up much of the mess created by the previous IT group. They have an SBS 2011 server with 50 device CALs that are being used by 50 users. Each user has a computer and a Windows Mobile phone. The previous IT group told my new client that Windows Mobile phones did not require device CALs to access the SBS server.

I don't have much experience with Windows Mobile phones. I've also done a good bit of Googling and can't find any sort of documentation saying this. Anyone heard of something like this and can perhaps provide some documentation.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the replies everyone. My main goal was to make sure there wasn't something obvious that I was missing. My research confirmed what you guys are saying here. I haven't seen anything that says Windows Mobile devices come with the right to access an Exchange server.

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx

The website above is the only place where I can find the smartphone listed as a "device". It's in one of the diagrams.

I'll be calling Microsoft to verify, but it looks like this client has some licensing violations that I need to clean up.