Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Licensing For Dummies
I’ve been on a bit of a mission of late to find articles that make the sometimes complex seem more simple.
I don’t know about you, but I find navigating around the Sharepoint licensing model a complete and utter nightmare. So how pleased was I when I found Lady Licensing. Simple diagrams covering the following scenarios:
- Intranet Portal
- Intranet/Extranet
- Internet
Brilliant! It even comes with pictures. Need I say more? I thought not, check it out here.
Tags: Microsoft, Sharepoint
June 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Nice site, that will save me serious headache.
One pointer regarding sharepoint and virtualization is that it is licensed according to powered on VMs. So if you have for example a test and development system, fater devloping turn it of and turn the test system on and you would have to pay for one license only. At least that’s my understanding from the below:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101655351033.aspx
“For example, if you are running an instance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 in each of the four VMs on a server, you need to assign four SharePoint Server licenses to that server—one for each of those running instances. However, you do not need separate licenses for the instances of Office SharePoint Server 2007 stored in any inactive VMs.”
July 18th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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