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Licensing - Splitting Sharepoint Server Functionality
Hi,
I have a customer who has asked if he can split some of the functionality out of Windows SharePoint Server, he wants to run one server for WFE and another for search and indexing but buy only one SharePoint Server license. Is he able to do this? He has advised that he was told by somone at Microsoft that this was fine as long as he could prove he was only using the underlying features of WSS not MOSS.
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- This is incorrect.MOSS 2007 is in this case installed on every machine and therefore you need to have MOSS licenses for each server.In addition if even only one of the servers in the MOSS farm is installed as Enterprise edition, the user will need both Std and Enterprise CALs for his users.You can not have WSS 3.0 and MOSS in the same farm.--------------------The Microsoft guy might (and I'm being generous here) have been thinking of a scenario that is possible if not common.You could use WSS 3.0 for your Internet Sites and MOSS 2007 for your Intranet. In that way you avoid paying internet connect license fees for MOSS. BUT in that case there are two completely separate farms and you have two completely different content sets with no interaction between them.This isn't at all what you describe in any case. What you describe (splitting off MOSS services like Indexing into a different server) is something that is typical of MOSS farms and always requires full MOSS payments/licenses for all the separate servers running those separate services.If talking to an MS guy about licensing always get hold of a licensing specialist. SP licensing is something that isn't understood by many local (MS) office people.
FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com
Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.- Marked As Answer byLu Zou-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 26, 2009 7:33 AM
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- This is incorrect.MOSS 2007 is in this case installed on every machine and therefore you need to have MOSS licenses for each server.In addition if even only one of the servers in the MOSS farm is installed as Enterprise edition, the user will need both Std and Enterprise CALs for his users.You can not have WSS 3.0 and MOSS in the same farm.--------------------The Microsoft guy might (and I'm being generous here) have been thinking of a scenario that is possible if not common.You could use WSS 3.0 for your Internet Sites and MOSS 2007 for your Intranet. In that way you avoid paying internet connect license fees for MOSS. BUT in that case there are two completely separate farms and you have two completely different content sets with no interaction between them.This isn't at all what you describe in any case. What you describe (splitting off MOSS services like Indexing into a different server) is something that is typical of MOSS farms and always requires full MOSS payments/licenses for all the separate servers running those separate services.If talking to an MS guy about licensing always get hold of a licensing specialist. SP licensing is something that isn't understood by many local (MS) office people.
FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com
Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.- Marked As Answer byLu Zou-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorThursday, November 26, 2009 7:33 AM
- Mike,
We have been told at our organization that only users using Enterprise features need to have the Enterprise CAL. For example, only Infopath form designers would need to have the Enterprise CAL to deploy and manage the form--internal users consuming the form and/or users not accessing Forms Services would only need the Standard CAL. Is that accurate? - Thanks Mike much appreciated.
