A probably off-topic question relating to the terms and conditions under which a piece of software is permitted to be used by those others. Per the FAQ, licensing questions are generally off topic on SeverFault.
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What steps are necessary to apply an Enterprise license to an iDRAC7 that shipped with a different license?
I have an iDRAC7 that came with an Express License. I have purchased an Enterprise license. What do I need to do to activate the license on my iDRAC7?
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2012 IIS Microsoft Licensing CAL Requirements [duplicate]
I apologize in advance if this specific question has been asked before, but there's actually too much information out there that looks very similar.
I'm a .NET developer by preference, but I am ...
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Win7 & 8 bootable VHDs and Windows licensing [duplicate]
Trying to get bootable VHDs working on my Win7 environment is driving me crazy. I have no problem creating the VHDs and installing the .WIM files to the VHD and then using BCDEDIT to set up the ...
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Two vSphere Essentials Plus Kits: can all hosts be part of same cluster/data center?
Say you have 6 hosts and two vSphere Essentials Plus Kits: can all 6 hosts function as part of the same vCenter (cluster, data center) umbrella or is there a restriction with licensing (i.e. you'd ...
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W2K8R2 DC: CALS necessary for auth-only users? [duplicate]
I'm currently setting up a POC installation of an internally developed web application. We are testing AD auth using the Python LDAP module. My question: does every authenticating web app user need a ...
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Office 2013 and Microsoft Exchange [closed]
With Office 365, can small companies avoid purchasing the mail server and the expensive Microsoft Exchange license? Will speed between the two solutions be comparable?
Thanks.
EDIT: I changed the ...
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Determine the current InDesign Server CS6 license type
I've got several servers running InDesign Server CS6, these servers have mixed licenses, some of them are working with Limited License and the others with Development license.
I've looked into ...
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What's involved in licensing Windows Server 2012 for an RDS(TS) environment? [duplicate]
I have around 30 devices and 40 users. I need a terminal services environment due to the way our work is performed.
I am thinking Windows Server 2012 Standard, with 40 Remote Desktop Services 2012 ...
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Correct licensing if users have multiple AD accounts [duplicate]
When licensing User CALS for Windows Server, I have following problem (or question):
Given you have 30 employees in your domain. 5 of them are administrators.
Each of these administrator has two ...
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Hardware vs software license keys in a VM environment
I am working with a vendor who is supplying a server-based application which requires licensing for activation. There are two options, software-based licensing and hardware (USB-dongle) based ...
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MS SQL Express - Memory limitation vs. web application [duplicate]
I have web application that will be similar to forums. I plan to have few thousands+ users on this application, and i wonder if i can use MS SQL Express - here is the list of it's limitations:
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Red Hat Licensing Model, a license is needed to run it? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
I've inherited two Red Hat servers at work. I'm planning on moving them to CentOS to avoid licensing costs. Now, the ...
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KMS Activation count w7 ent
On my KMS host (Windows Server 2008 R2), when i do a slmgr.vbs /dli, I dont see any Current Count fied, i only see this:
Name: Windows Server(R), Server Standard edition
Description: Windows ...
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How to release a VMware unused license from a host? New licensing scheme?
I own VMware Essentials license (6 CPU's)
One of the hosts is going to be replaced with a new one. I am having trouble removing/changing the license on that host.
As you can see on the image: the ...
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Number of VMs on Windows 2012 Standard [duplicate]
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According to the "Windows 2012 editions" comparison here, it is possible to run "two virtual instances" with Windows ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 acting as LDAP Gateway to Mercurial [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Server A runs Windows Server 2008 R2
Server B runs Linux With Apache/Mercurial setup
Development team connects to ...
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Server 2008 R2 Virtual Key Licensing [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
As per Microsoft's website, when you purchase Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, you're entitled to 4 virtual machines to run ...
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Remote Desktop Licensing mode is not configured in Windows Server2012
Usualy I use RDP in Windows Server 2008 R2, and never fall in this: "Remote Desktop Licensing mode is not configured", This is a message that I get as soon as I open session in the newly installed ...
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Windows Server Data Center Edition Licensing [duplicate]
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How does the licensing model of Windows Server Data Center Edition work?
According to this Microsoft page a copy of ...
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SBS 2008 Device CAL for Server 2008 R2 / NAS Server [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
I got a DC running SBS 2008, the Clients are licensed via Device CALs.
I got 2 NAS Devices connected to 2 ...
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vCenter server with both academic and Federal licensing? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Background
We have two servers running VMWare Academic licensing and just purchased two more under Federal licensing.
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How do I check Exchange Licensing in 2007
When I open my exchange server, I see a screen that says "Finalize Deployment" and the first item is "Enter the Exchange Server Product Key".
Does this mean the server is not licensed? If it is not ...
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Basic Licensing Issue with Windows Server and SQL Server [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Hopefully this is the correct place to ask this question.
I have Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server with about 12 client ...
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Are Oracle Database CPU license limits enforced by software, and how do I check them? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
I've inherited a windows VM running Oracle Database 10g. Currently the VM has only one CPU assigned to it, but I can ...
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Bringing TechNet licensed server into production
I am currently trialling an install of Windows Server 2008R2 + SQL Server 2008 R2 using license keys from my company's TechNet subscription.
If the trial is successful, I'd like to bring the server ...
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SQL Server + Windows Server CALs [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
I've asked the same question on stackoverflow, but i think it suits here better since it's a problem not related to ...
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Why is VMWare ESXi free [closed]
VMWare Workstation costs some money, but why is ESXi, the more complicated product, as I think, distributed for free?
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Can I run more than two VMs on Windows Server 2012 Standard if guest OSes are not WS2012? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
It is said here that Windows Server 2012 Standard allows you to install it on one 2-processor machine and run up to two ...
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VMware ESXi 5 licensing and hardware recommendation [closed]
I need to get visualization development machine where I will have a bunch of linux virtual machines that are not resource hungry. I expect that I would have around 10-15 virtual machines with 2-4 G ...
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How to activate Dell OEM in Hyper-V?
I've been using hyper-v to create my base images for deployment to workstations. I create them on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server running Windows Server enterprise 2008.
The Dell OEM key does not ...
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Inbound TCP connection limit in Windows 7, according to the license [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
According to the license agreement for Windows 7:
You may allow up to 20 other devices to access software installed ...
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SBS Server without using CAL restricted features
Following a company merger, the number of employees in the company for which this question relates is more than 75, the maximum number supported by SBS 2008.
The company have decided not to buy any ...
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Citrix XenApp Fundamentals
I have a problem with a new install of a XenApp Citrix server.
Everything was working fine, but I was setting up Citrix Access Gateway and single sign in. Now, on the main server I am getting an ...
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Need to downgrade from an intel xeon 5675 [closed]
I'll skip my sob story and just say Oracle has weird licensing, and because of this I'm trying to see if I can avoid buying three new ESX host servers by downgrading from 12 cores (6 licensed ...
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Is there a relation between MS SQL Server client licenses and performance
I have a customer who has an .Net application running on MS SQL Server 2008, supplied by our company as a part of Microsoft Small Business Server. He started off with around 5 users, and hence we had ...
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Does anybody use “Site Licensing Servers” in AD? Why / why not?
Site Licensing Servers are a feature in Server 2003 that doesn't appear to exist as an actual service in Windows 2008R2.
Does this service still exist? Is there any benefit to this at all?
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Converting Sql Server 2012 RTM from trial to licensed edition
Similar questions have been asked about 2008, but there appears to be a dearth of information on SQL Server 2012.
Does it require a reinstall?
Will it go through an upgrade process (and what does ...
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SQL Server License identification
We purchased a SQL server license with 10 user CALS, a while ago. How can I identify the users accessing the SQL server to make sure number of CALS match the number of users accessing the server? Is ...
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Minimal licence needed to pause/resume virtual machine via vSphere CLI
I manage VMware ESXi 4.0 server running mix of Windows virtual machines. I've installed VMware vSphere CLI in hope to pause/resume virtual machine and copy its image to NFS datastore. I've got CLI up ...
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Adding few Sql Server Standard Edition dlls in express edition. Would this terminate li [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
I was reading a topic in a book regarding sending database mail in sql server. But I found that in express edition ...
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Cisco 3925/k9 sub-interface vlan support
I've got a brand new cisco router 3925/k9. I wanted to set up a router on a stick on my network, but it turns out it doesn't support vlan sub-interfaces. I did it multiple times in gns3 simulator on ...
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Windows Server 2008 CALs for Windows Server 2008 R2 [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
Our existing setup has 3 servers running on Windows Server 2008 and there are 75 users in the office. We have a ...
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Windows Server 2008 License Mismatched With Version [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I'm working with a small business' server that has started displaying messages about their copy of Windows not being ...
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Server license - to purchase or not? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
As an sys admins we need to provide our development team with both an integration and development environment. ...
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how does cloudstack-oss differ from cloud.com? [closed]
the commercial offering (cloud.com) differs only by support?
cloudstack OSS is licensed under GPL v3, is that good for commercial usage (unmodified binaries)?
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What's the best way to deploy Windows 7 to 20 desktops? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I'm looking to make the move from XP to 7 and was wondering what other people have experienced. I've got about 20 ...
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Can I activate a Windows Server Trial using an OEM key? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I am currently running a trial of SBS 2011 Essentials that has expired. Most of the results I see for SBS 2011 on ...
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Windows Server 2008 Standard vs. Web [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I'm currently comparing Windows Server 2008 versions to see what to use.
What i found is this, that might affect ...
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Terminal Server Licensing: This Licensing ID will expire within 90 days [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I logged into my Microsoft portal to check out if I can migrate my Terminal Services licenses from a 2003 to 2008 ...
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Migrating Citrix XanApp Standard licenses from Win 2003 R2 32 bit to Win 2008 64 bit [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I have migration question:
Can I migrate Microsoft Terminal Server Licenses from Win2003 to Win2008?
Can I migrate ...
