Where can I see my CAL usage? [duplicate]

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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

We're running a SBS 2011 standard edition server and have got seven employees on different full and part time contracts and are now going to hire another person. I'm not sure if I've understood how the CALs work (googling a bit, it seems I'm not alone in that, at least...), but I'd like to be sure that we're not going to exceed our user limit when the new employee comes in next week. As I understand it, the licenses are "simultaneous connected users"? In SBS 2003 there was a "License manager" (my translation, english versions might call it something else) where I could see the number of installed licenses, and the maximum number used so far. Since people might overlap in work hours, I'd like to be able to see how many licenses we are currently using, so where can I see that in SBS'11?


Solution 1:

There is no longer a license manager in SBS 2008. It is totally on the honor system. If you get audited you need to supply a manually created list detailing how you have each of your CALs provisioned, but there is no hard data to show.

EDIT:

Concerning the question "Do you per chance know the definition of 'simultaneous users'?" I'm hesitant to give out licensing advice, for both of our benefits. For my benefit, I can't be blamed for passing potentially bad info. For yours, you need to have someone official to rely on in case something hits the fan. Having said that, in my experience, a CAL is used anytime a username and password is passed for authentication. Check with your reseller's licensing department and/or call Microsoft licensing itself to get the low-down. Be prepared to get conflicting info, though. Write down who said what and when they said it in the same document that you use to track your license allocation. Make sure to document the namesnd and phone numbers of those involved with the information.