Comments on: MOSS 2007 Licensing Decoded

By: Padraig Denihan

Padraig Denihan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:20:40 +0000

If we have forms that are made available via InfoPath Forms Services
installed on MOSS, then I realise the people creating/deploying the forms need Enterprise MOSS CAL, yes?
But…do ‘ordinary’ users (internal or external) need a MOSS CAL to just access the forms and fill them in?

Thanks,
Padraig

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:35:08 +0000

Robin – Because it is not possible to differentiate easily what users are using the MOSS functionality and what users are using strictly WSS based functionality, theoretically MOSS cals are required for all users.

There are ways of limiting what capabilities are available to users by turning on and off feature sets and then limiting particular security groups to particular web applications or site collections. Additionally, RDA corp has a tool that will track which users are using what features.

By: Robin Majumdar

Robin Majumdar — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:37:16 +0000

I’m trying to figure this out as well.

We have 100 users (with CALs) at a regional office accessing our MOSS server, my sites, search etc.

We also want to create top level site collections (WSS sites) on the same server, but those would be for other users who do NOT have access to the MOSS portal, nor MySites, etc. Only the site collection.

In this latter example, those users would not need MOSS CALs, correct?

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:21:27 +0000

Dean,

Not quite certain how you’re going to provision separate farms onto the same physical hardware. What you can do however is utilize SharePoint’s web application policy management to deny access to all users except a specific group – that group being users that should have access to a web application with enterprise capability enabled.

By: Dean Morgan

Dean Morgan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:17:54 +0000

Am I correct in saying that you can run both Standard and Enterprise on the same physical/logical server as long as they are in seperate farms?

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:01:54 +0000

Hey Chris,

My understanding with regard to the SQL Server licensing was that you didn’t have a choice between user CALs and processor CALs if you were running SharePoint, but that you were forced to operate on the processor CAL. The other thing to mention is the infamous SharePoint connector which opens up a can of worms of requirements to be “legitimate.”

Anyway, good post on licensing to help break it down since it’s a topic that’s always fun to go through

Cheers!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:01:56 +0000

Do we need to buy MOSS Standard CAL licenses for users who will be mainly using basic WSS features such as basic collaboration, and document sharing?

Of course, we will buy Standard and Enterprise CALs for Managers, and executives will be using MySites, Workflows and other MOSS Enterprise features.

But, the question is that do we need to buy MOSS Standard CAL for user who uses basic Intranet, Shared Docs, and just basic features of WSS? We have more than 1000 users in manufacturing environment who access basic features of WSS. Thanks.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:13:06 +0000

Is it possible to have your front end run Enterprise edition and your database server run standard edition?

By: wali

wali — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:59 +0000

How do you keep track of Enterprise User CALs in bigger orginaziation so that you are not overly using the CALs. Currently, for Standard Cals we are generating reports based on IIS. Is there any way to track Enterprise User Cals for true up?

By: cregan

cregan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:25:22 +0000

Hi Alan,

Just the proper SQL Server license will suffice. If you have any questions regarding the SQL Server licensing, let me know.

Thanks,
Chris