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Ravenrx7

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Aug 21, 2002
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Can I buy a 5 CAL Enterprise License and have it work for 20 users? Or does Exchange have a way to tell how many connections?

Josh McMahon
A+ Certified,CCNA
sold@joshmcmahon.com
 
Why would you want to do something illegal like that?

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
never said i WAS going to, its a question

Josh McMahon
A+ Certified,CCNA
sold@joshmcmahon.com
 
To be legal, you have to have a CAL for every user you have a mailbox for.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
However, not every user requires an Enterprise CAL. Only those users who will be using features that require an Enterprise CAL need to have them. The rest can have Standard CALs.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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I don't think anyone had been as specific as to what type of CAL was needed, so you're phrasing is a bit odd.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
I believe it would work, yes. It is of course illegal and immoral, normally a slippery slope leading to mass piracy and 5000 years of skin flaying by Lucifer himself.

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.
 
Yes you can exceed the licences as with previous versions of Exchange however you are in breach of the EULA.

All Microsoft products allow you to break the agreement where Adobe products do not. There have been some interesting moves to prevent breaches that have been released by most of the major vendors but most of them are flawed.
 
Davetoo said:
I don't think anyone had been as specific as to what type of CAL was needed, so you're phrasing is a bit odd.

Actually, the original post mentioned an Enterprise CAL. I stand by my point that Enterprise CALs are only required for users that will be using features that require an Enterprise CAL (like UM). Those that don't require those features can use Standard CALs.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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Ah...I read that as Enterprise Exchange, not the CAL...darn new product offerings!

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
Exchange Server comes in Standard or Enterprise. You only need an Enterprise license for TWO things:
Failover clustering and/or
More than 5 databases

Exchange user CALs come in Standard and Enterprise as well. That's what I was referring to above in my original post. You only have to buy Enterprise user CALs for those users using Enterprise features like UM. That may or may not be all of your users. YMMV.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -
 
Interesting...there is an Exchange 2007 Enterprise edition...so we don't know if he meant Enterprise CAL or Enterprise Exchange...looking at the OP's wording, I don't think he meant CAL.

Nobody refuted the validity of the CAL's.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
we went with exhange 2007 standard with 86 cals

Josh McMahon
A+ Certified,CCNA
sold@joshmcmahon.com
 
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