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You didn't say how many users you HAVE.<br />
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SBS 2008 CALs cover access to all 2008 and SHOULD cover access to 2008 R2 (since the &quot;R2&quot; designation was in part to signify that 2008 CALs were sufficient). &nbsp;So your 2008 R2 server should never have needed WINDOWS CALs. <br />
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Your 2012 Server is much newer than 2008/2008 and all users who use ANY ASPECT of the server require Windows 2012 CALs. &nbsp;Meaning, if you made this your DHCP server then ALL users using a device that gets a DHCP address needs a 2012 CAL.<br />
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Your SQL install needs SQL CALs as well.<br />
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It would be easier to provide assistance if we knew:<br />
How many SBS Users<br />
How many SQL Users<br />
How many Users access ANYTHING on the 2012 server.<br />
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Understand:<br />
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Hi, appreciate your assistance...<br />
total of 30 users all accessing DC roles on SBS2008 and SQL on 2008R2.<br />
As yet no one connecting to the 2012 but envisage about 8 initally.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Andy
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thanks very much for your help...
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I have 3 servers in the office, one is a 2008 Small Business Server, one is a 2008 R2 server with SQL Server 2008 R2 and one is a Server 2012 R2.<br />
I know we need some extra 2008 Small Business Server user cals but I am a bit confused about the other licensing requirements.<br />
When we bought the server with SQL we bought 10 cals for the server and 10 cals for SQL, if we say have an additional 10 users since then do we need to purchase another 10 SQL licenses and 10 server licenses (in addition to the extra Small Business licences I know we need).<br />
Also, for the new 2012 server which will be hosting a bespoke software application, do we need cals for this server as well?<br />
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Thanks for any help... :)
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I have 3 servers in the office, one is a 2008 Small Business Server, one is a 2008 R2 server with SQL Server 2008 R2 and one is a Server 2012 R2.
I know we need some extra 2008 Small Business Server user cals but I am a bit confused about the other licensing requirements.
When we bought the server with SQL we bought 10 cals for the server and 10 cals for SQL, if we say have an additional 10 users since then do we need to purchase another 10 SQL licenses and 10 server licenses (in addition to the extra Small Business licences I know we need).
Also, for the new 2012 server which will be hosting a bespoke software application, do we need cals for this server as well?

Thanks for any help... :)

Windows 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

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.