July 17, 2009 at 3:42 am
Hi,
I recently bought a copy of SQL Server 2005 Standard with 10 CAL's. Now I need to add on a pack of 7 additional User CAL's, Im just wondering is there an inbuilt wizard for adding these users on? Or is it a little more complicated?
Thanks for any help!
Rob 🙂
July 17, 2009 at 4:05 am
July 17, 2009 at 4:26 am
So what your saying is that you cant add extra User CAL's to an existing server that I must Install the server software to start with, with more licences than I currently needed to cover future growth??
Regards,
Rob
July 17, 2009 at 8:43 am
rob (7/17/2009)
So what your saying is that you cant add extra User CAL's to an existing server that I must Install the server software to start with, with more licences than I currently needed to cover future growth??Regards,
Rob
No, you don't have to reinstall anything. You started with SQL Server 2005 with 10 CAL's. Now you need to add more users to the system than the original 10, in this case you buy seven more CAL's. Great, now those 7 additional users are legal users of the system. There is noting more you need to do with SQL Server 2005. It is just a piece of paper authorizing users/devices to access SQL Server.
You just need to be sure you can provide documentation to Microsoft that every user is authorized to access the server(s) should they ever audit you. Not that this occurs regularly, but could if a disgruntled employee were to report your company to Microsoft accusing you of not having sufficient licenses for your software.
July 17, 2009 at 9:36 am
Oooooooh so all you have to do is OWN a piece of paper stating the CAL's are yours, not actually apply them to the server so that it lets the users use them....
I was thinking that If I tried to connect an 11th user at one time the server would simply not let me access the data.
Thanks for clearing that up 😀
July 17, 2009 at 10:02 am
rob (7/17/2009)
Oooooooh so all you have to do is OWN a piece of paper stating the CAL's are yours, not actually apply them to the server so that it lets the users use them....I was thinking that If I tried to connect an 11th user at one time the server would simply not let me access the data.
Thanks for clearing that up 😀
SQL Server 2000 actually tracked licensed users vs unlicensed users. For what ever reason, Microsoft dropped that in SQL Server 2005. In SQL Server 2000 it was easy to go in and update the number of licenses as well.
But basically, yes. If you have the physical proof to backup who is accessing your servers, then that is all that is needed.
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