Microsoft Licensing 3 – Clusters

In this post, I’ll discuss licensing when working in a clustered Microsoft environment. I’ll pick some of the more common Microsoft Apps and detail what is required to properly license them. Windows 2003 and 2008 support eight node clusters. In a two node cluster, you can technically have them configured in an active/active configuration. However, [...]

Microsoft licensing 2

In a previous post, I spoke about licensing Window Server in a virtualized environment. Today, I’ll be addressing Client Access License or CAL, especially revolving around web facing. By web facing, I mean any server that services requests from any machine not owned by the firm. The underlying Windows OS license is not impacted whether [...]

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