{"id":324,"date":"2012-08-06T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=324"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:47:00","slug":"microsoft-server-licensing-rules-re-cals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2012\/08\/06\/microsoft-server-licensing-rules-re-cals\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Server Licensing Rules (re: CALs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to quote a customer on a new server installation, you have some important numbers you need to consider, and one of those is definitely how licensing works for server licenses.&#160; A co-worker and I ran into a scenario the other day where we weren\u2019t entirely sure of the rules for licensing once we got down to the server level.&#160; We were quoting for a new SharePoint install, and of course, every SharePoint user is considered a server user as well.&#160; As such, we wanted to know how the licensing model worked for a multi-server farm (2 WFEs, 1 APP, 1 SQL) when it got right down to the server level.<\/p>\n<p>Our assumption from the beginning was that for every SP user (300) we\u2019d need 1 CAL for each user, for each server \u2013 minus the SQL server, which was being licensed by processor\/core and therefore, CALs were irrelevant. That meant that our server CALs were assumed to be 300 x 3 SharePoint servers = 900 CALs.&#160; This (thankfully) was wrong.&#160; As it turns out, server CALs are (seemingly most often) licensed by the individual user, not by the number of servers that an individual accesses.&#160; This form of licensing is known as licensing by \u201cUser CALs\u201d.&#160; This reduced our server CAL count down to only 300, the number of users who would be accessing SharePoint.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Client Access License based on user\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/global\/licensing\/PublishingImages\/cal_user.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"248\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this also means that if your 300 users already had CALs allocated to them by means of other windows servers already present in their network, then the total number of new CALs you\u2019d require is 0.&#160; 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