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Stupid Licensing Practices
This is a rant so be forewarned … We discovered an “interesting” kink in Backup Exec licensing this week. I will admit that we had not been paying attention to the changes announced first by Symantec and then Veritas so I suppose we were partially asleep at the switch. Nevertheless, the changes are significant and …
Read onOffice 365 – Subscriptions and Housekeeping
Office 365 lets you add and change subscriptions at will (well, pretty much). This is all fine and dandy but you can start to make a real hash of things if you are not careful. As an example, consider the following: This is a customer of ours and their subscription listing is not atypical, many …
Read onUncle Rob’s Short & Sweet Microsoft CAL primer
Kelly and I were having a discussion the other day about Microsoft licensing for a customer and the question of CAL’s came up. Kelly was a bit confused by the whole concept (and she’s NOT alone in that …) so I had to explain to her what it is all about. She said, “There’s a …
Read onOffice365 and Microsoft Cloud “CAL” Rights–what a great benefit!
One very cool benefit of many Office365 subscription levels is the “CAL’” rights that are conferred via the O365 subscription towards on premise services. What I mean by this is that O365, for example, confers SharePoint and Exchange CAL’s that can be used for both connection to the O365 services and your own on-premise services! …
Read onA few words on the whole subscription thing
There are a lot of people out there gnashing their teeth over the whole question of Microsoft’s push for subscription licensing, specifically Office licensing via Office 365. Indeed, there is a yawning chasm opening up between those of us who see advantage in the subscription model and those who cling to the old licensing models. …
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