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MOSS Licensing: Take the test!

After having a 27th different opinion on SharePoint Licensing, let's do a test. Below I specified the needs of a customer, you name the licenses that have to be bought.

You have a customer that wants an Intranet to be implemented. You propose to implement SharePoint Portal Server 2007 for all of the 900 users. The customer wants to use the BDC and forms server, no client InfoPath applications. Let us say that because of the business critical character and the volume of data we propose a 5 server farm (2 in front, 1 application and 2 mirrored or clustered database servers). We want an exact copy of this in the acceptance environment using virtualisation on 2 physical servers. The customer wants to develop with his team of 3 developers but they are not entitled to use MSDN licenses.
The servers have to be bought too, so all of the licenses have to be acquired (Win2003, SQL, MOSS, ....) from scratch.

Despite the fact that this is a very simple example, with even no MOSS for Internet included, I'm very curious about your reactions!

Published Nov 15 2007, 07:55 AM by Stef

Comments

 

SameBoat said:

Shouldn't be that hard really, should it?

Now add project server into the bunch and it truly becomes a disaster

From my count though you need the following

5 - Windows 2003

2+ - SQL 2005 (depending on how you license it and how beefy the machines are - possibly 8 SQL licenses per box or 2 SQL licenses and 900 CALs)

3 - MOSS 2007 Enterprise

900 - MOSS Enterprise CALS

900 - MOSS Standard CALs

3 - Visual Studio

3 - Office SharePoint Designer

3 - Infopath 2007

x - Office 2007 for anyone that then determines they want to use excel services :)

Am I close?

November 15, 2007 1:46 PM
 

Stef said:

Thanks for the first answer!

* What about the software on the acceptance environment?

* When buying 900 SQL Server CAL's it will probabely be better to buy a processor based license, not?

* Do the developers really have to buy the licenses, or can they use something like a MS Action Pack Subsciption?

November 15, 2007 2:27 PM
 

Joe said:

In addition to what SameBoat said you would need the same server licences for the acceptance environment (provided you really want a 1-to-1 mirror AND two more 2003 licenses for the host machines of the virutalization (provided you were using Virtual Server 2003 R2).  You would not need the 900 CALs for the acceptance environment provided your users only access the production environment.  You would need at least 3 CALs (standard and enterprise for MOSS) for your developers).  And if your used Virtual Server 2005 then you would only need 2 SQL server licenses w/ CALs for your developers since your virtual machines can only give you access to one processor.

At this point Microsoft Licensing (at least Open License although an enterprise license should be considered) would be benifitial along with some MSDN licensing which could be used for your acceptance environment if it also was your development environment.

November 17, 2007 12:50 PM

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