How to tell the difference between live installations and MSDN installations

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How to tell the difference between live installations and MSDN installations

Ant-Green

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April 16, 2009 at 1:28 am

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Guys and Gals
I was wondering if any of you know how to tell the difference between a live installation from live media and an MSDN installation from media downloaded via MSDN.
Looking in the server options, (right click on server, properties, general from SSMS) the product says Enterprise, Standard, Developer but there are no references between Live and MSDN.
We are going through a licencing exercise and we need to know how many licences we need to true up on and this is throwing us out.
Due to the installations not being performed by our DBA team we dont have a record of the DEV UAT and TRAIN environments only the live.
Any help would be great.
Cheers
Ant

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hal.trask SSC Enthusiast Points: 169 More actions · Answer 1

Same problem! Did you ever get an answer that makes sense? Thanks

Elliott Whitlow SSC Guru Points: 102402 More actions · Answer 2

I don't think there is a good way.

However, to know how many you need to true up is pretty easy. You need to find out what you have licensed by edition. Then you need to audit the servers you have and find out what you have and the edition/version.

What you have licensed - what you have = what you need..

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

You need to know what servers are "Production"

Non production development servers don't need to be licensed. Thus knowing what servers are serving up production data and apps will help you know what needs to be licensed.

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Elliott Whitlow SSC Guru Points: 102402 More actions · Answer 4

CirquedeSQLeil (5/6/2010)
You need to know what servers are "Production"
Non production development servers don't need to be licensed. Thus knowing what servers are serving up production data and apps will help you know what needs to be licensed.

I don't know if that is true, a lot depends on your licensing with MS.

I checked the MS licensing pages and didn't see a distinction between prod and non-prod licensing.

Can you provide a link?

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

I can't find the document, but I have been told that when purchasing volume license agreement and MSDN.

If in doubt ask the licensing partner.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

The safest and easiest way to license test/dev/uat servers is to purchase enough Developer Edition licenses for every one that can actually modify database objects in those environments. Users, QA testers, etc that can only run the code (and can not modify or create databasse objects) do not need licenses in these environments.

At $50 per user (street price), not a bad deal.