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Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. You ensure you have them to hand for licensing purposes. Microsoft makes no warranty of any kind with respect to this report, or the information contained in this report. Man, I am so sick of looking and asking but never a direct freaking answer to my question! IF, I buy cals and do not physically install them on my exchange server then what the hell is the reason for them??
IS, there more that hasn't been said or what about this? I have the exchange server installed. I have mail boxes established and all set up. What does Microsoft have to do at this point or not if my exchange server works or not after I buy and install the server software and activate it?? I see these CALs sold everywhere, even all over eBay. SO, I buy them and then what?? Is it JUST suppose to make me feel good about myself or what do they do for me if it has been said that you do not install them on server??
Does having them in the top shelf of my closet make the server run better or what?? The straight answer is that you have to keep track of how many users you have, and how many client access licenses you need, and then you have to buy that many from Microsoft. When you do, you are compliant with the license fees you owe Microsoft for using their product.
If you get just the basic 5 CAL's and then have users, it will still work, but you're using pirated connections you should be paying Microsoft for. This is part of the agreement you made when you bought and installed Exchange. Just "it works" is not enough. I for one am very pleased that Microsoft doesn't resort to things like suspending functionality if the amount of licenses isn't correct.
They do levy extra fees, I believe, if you are found to be non-compliant and they can do audits. I'm a bit more ambivalent about that, to be honest, and I'm not at all thrilled at how incredibly complicated and annoying Microsoft makes all its licensing, but the answer in this case is:.
You need enough CAL's to cover the amount of users and devices you have. Figuring out how many that is and buying those CAL's is literally your responsibility, as per the agreement you made when you acquired Exchange. Well, that's frankly more a problem with Microsoft's licensing model s than anything else. Trying to understand licensing needs for Microsoft is pretty much impossible.
Nobody can give you a straight answer because nobody can actually calculate with any certainty if they're license compliant or not. One person will say you need X amount of A, B and C licenses to run your business, but someone else will interpret the licensing rules differently and claim you need A and B but not C - but you forgot about D, you need that too Microsoft should just stop with the insanely complicated rules and simplify drastically, in my view.
Charge customers something approaching reasonable amounts of money and make it easy to figure out what you owe.
If you need custom Excel sheets and online license calculators and a plethora of "contact your reseller for assistance", you've failed in creating reasonable licensing rules I feel much of it too. Hopefully your questions have been answered but your replies are so hilarious and honestly I mean, seriously..
It is basically an "Honor system". Its not like your typical Exchange and other software like Windows Server is different and requires the "IT professional" who handles the network and to make sure their organization has enough CALs to use it. If Microsoft does an audit of your organization and ask for the CAL report, the IT professional will know exactly what that means and will provide it.
This is just one very small and basic job of IT professionals, especially if you are dealing with Microsoft's enterprise products. This way they can avoid having just some kid who likes playing PC games handle large enterprise organizations with IT support just because they "know how to use computers".
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