Questions tagged [licensing]
A probably off-topic question relating to the terms and conditions under which a piece of software is permitted to be used by those others. Per the FAQ, licensing questions are generally off topic on SeverFault.
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
This is a Canonical Question about Licensing.
Questions on licensing are off-topic on Server Fault.
If your question has been closed as a duplicate of this question, then this is because we want to ...
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Is a hard drive's serial number globally unique?
On Linux I can use smartctl to get a hard drive's vendor, model, firmware revision and serial number:
# smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
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After upgrading to 2008 R2 Enterprise and installing more RAM, Windows can only see 4.00 GB
(I have also posted this on technet but I'm running out of ideas)
I've upgraded from Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to Enterprise in order to make use of more RAM. The server previously had 32GB of ...
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How are SQL Server CALs counted? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
Running a SQL Server, as far as I understand it, you need one CAL for every user who connects to the database server.
But ...
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How to view SQL Server licenses
I understand that there are three kinds of SQL licenses: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/pricing-licensing-faq.aspx
Is there a a dialog in SSMS, a sproc, registry key, etc I can look at ...
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Which media was used to install Windows 7
I need to find out if a deployment of Windows 7 to a network was done with OEM, Retail, Volume or VL (VLK) media.
I need to know which product was used in case it is what is causing some licensing ...
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Central management of Microsoft licenses
We're in the process of consolidating all our developer systems into a single windows domain and auditing all our internally used software.
For Microsoft software is there any tool/tools to allow ...
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How does Microsoft enforce licenses?
I've often wondered, I have an MSDN universal license, and a technet license, so I have all the licenses I need to do what I need, which is software development.
If I was a dishonest person, and ...
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Strange labels on our servers [duplicate]
I'm a system administrator in our company. I have purchased some HP servers.
I asked my local vendor to install CentOS on them using original images.
When I went to server room today to install them,...
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What's the lowest cost, legal, Microsoft server stack you can assemble? [closed]
Assuming that you have an app infrastructure that generally only requires:
ASP.NET MVC / C# / .NET
Database or NoSQL data store (must be accessible from C#)
Here's the challenge to you server gods:
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Active Directory Licensing [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I can't seem to find a clear answer to this question.
What type of licenses do I need to buy ensure that everyone in my ...
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Does this SQL Server license seem legit?
The information I'm getting from the software vendor from which my wife recently purchased her new small business's domain-specific office management software is giving me the creeps. My impression ...
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Can I use the free VMWare Player for work? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I was never good at reading and understanding commercial licenses, so I would like to ask a question. I just started ...
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Can a Windows 7 Ultimate product key be used for virtual machines as well? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate running on my computer, and I thought I would set up a few virtual machines to help me when I ...
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Converting MSDN license to full, commercial license [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I had to throw a machine together in a bit of a hurry- to replace a machine that suddenly failed (no one had bothered to ...
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RDS Licensing not actually licensing
I have a few RDS hosts spread over two AD domains. The RDS servers in the top domain (enets.local) are fine, they get their licenses and consume them at a healthy rate.
However, the RDS hosts in the ...
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Hardware vs software license keys in a VM environment
I am working with a vendor who is supplying a server-based application which requires licensing for activation. There are two options, software-based licensing and hardware (USB-dongle) based ...
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Purchasing a license for enterprise GNU/Linux
After recent software update I have found the following message from program glat-client in system logs of some systems:
This copy of GNU/Linux is not activated. See
https://gitlab.com/glat-...
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Windows 2012 RDS Server asking for Licensing Mode when it's already set?
I have a confusing situation. I'm setting up a 2012 RDS Licensing Server for our environment. I'm checking under the RD Licensing Diagnoser to make sure everything is proper and I keep getting this ...
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Purchasing hard drives with non-sequential serial numbers
I've always heard that you should not purchase hard disks with sequential serial numbers for any storage system. Now I find myself, for the first time, in a position where I need to purchase around ...
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License handling best practices
This is a follow up to my last post: Sysadmin: Where to Start? on a more specific point.
As I stated I was recently hired at a company to lead software development and as a smaller portion of that ...
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How to allow more than two simultanous sessions on Azure
One of our servers is on Azure and we are remotely connecting to it. Unfortunately Azure allows only two users to be logged in at the same time. When the third user tries to log in, he is given the ...
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What steps are necessary to apply an Enterprise license to an iDRAC7 that shipped with a different license?
I have an iDRAC7 that came with an Express License. I have purchased an Enterprise license. What do I need to do to activate the license on my iDRAC7?
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Getting Cisco UCS Server's CPU Serial Numbers
I have a Cisco UCS C240 M3S server with dual CPU failure under warranty. I am trying to find both CPU serial numbers to complete the RMA request, however cannot find any serial numbers. I have tried ...
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Reimage several of the same model PC by copying the hard disk
I have several of the same machine (Dell Precision T3500) that originally came with Windows 7 Pro (there is a Windows 7 Pro OA product key sticker on top of each one). These were initially downgraded ...
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How can we keep an organized inventory of server hardware, virtual guests, software licenses and associated services?
We frequently need to figure out questions like:
What services would be affected if we bring down a server x?
When does license x expire?
Which KVM guests are on host x?
Can our VMWare license ...
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Explain Microsoft Licensing [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I think most of us have to buy Microsoft licences. I suspect all of us have got confused by Microsoft's licensing system ...
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Activating windows virtual machines for testing? good/bad?
I am being asked to set up a battery of windows 7 flavours for a guy over in QA using VM's so that his office isn't filled with boxen. Is the common practice to activate these temporary machines or do ...
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Can software licenses be resold? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
As there are some license that I have finished using (such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, 3D Studio, Autodesk ...
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How do most small businesses acquire Office licenses?
A company I sometimes consult for is relatively small (40 employees), and they have a royal mess of Office licenses. OEM, Retail, Upgrades, O2K/XP/2K3/2K7, etc. They basically buy whatever retail ...
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VMware: Make applications see Windows VM as bare metal
In a virtual environment using VMware, I want to setup a Windows license server. Unfortunately, the vendor's license server refuses to run on a VM; it must be installed on a physical machine.
Since ...
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Are you Familiar with the Microsoft 'Internal Use' License? [duplicate]
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So I'd like to make sure we're keeping with the spirit and letter of the various licenses we have. Some of our Microsoft ...
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Does SQL server log shipping require a 2nd SQL license [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I'm currently working on a high availability solution for SQL Server 2008. I have 2 servers with 1 license of standard ...
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What is the right method to use Red Hat Software Collections on Amazon AWS EC2 instances?
I created a fresh Amazon EC2 instance for testing our software against the Apache 2.4 package from the Red Hat Software Collections. My main motivation was to test on a clean install without the cruft ...
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SQL Server licensing, is it per CPU? So a 32 CPU would mean like 150K in licensing? [closed]
SQL Server licensing, is it per CPU? If yes, so a 32 CPU would mean like 150K in licensing?
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Dell OEM XP downgrade Keys [duplicate]
I am working with a small company that purchases the XP downgrade when they order there computers from dell. They then apply an image to the systems, and need a CD key when it is finished. ...
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SQL Server Trial Edition to Full Edition
I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 for the 180 day trial. We tested the system and it's working fine, and I wanted to convert it to full version.
The problem is, I have a volume key licence to SQL Server,...
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How does one aquire the installation files to go along with a volume license or their Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft?
I have a general question about how a company usually acquires the installation media needed to install software associated with volume licenses that were purchased or that they are entitled to with ...
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How can I tell what license I have on an install of SQL server, or Windows Server?
Is there any easy way to find out what license(s) are associated with a running copy of SQl Server, or Windows Server 2008?
I have technet subscriptions, and an MSDN subscription, but sometimes I ...
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How can I get my License Key from a boot CD?
We recently acquired a server that's been in use for a while, but no associated software, logins, etc. We attempted to blank the administrator account password, but that didn't work. We also tried ...
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How to determine what kind of key Win7 was activated with (retail or volume license)?
I am working with a non-profit organization that just had a pallet of computers donated to them. The computers have had their hard drives wiped so there is no operating system installed. They are a ...
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How to release a VMware unused license from a host? New licensing scheme?
I own VMware Essentials license (6 CPU's)
One of the hosts is going to be replaced with a new one. I am having trouble removing/changing the license on that host.
As you can see on the image: the ...
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Finding Windows keys in use throughout corporation
We own a lot of Windows desktop keys (XP, Vista, and Windows 7) and have documented their usage and availability. Now the documentation has fallen behind and we don't know what keys are used where. Of ...
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Do non-IIS web servers running on Windows 2008 Server require Client Access Licenses? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
For web applications I would like to run a JBoss AS on a 64 Bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard system. Does the Microsoft ...
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Is it me or it's realy not easy to get information about Microsoft Product Licensing [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
How can we get the real information about the licensing on Microsoft product.
I try to get the number of mailbox i can ...
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Get a list of the licences of all packages on Ubuntu system [closed]
I want to check what licenses all the packages on my system is running under.
It seems like this information is located in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright
However this file seems like it does not ...
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Downgrading Windows Server 2012 R2 to WS 2012
I would like to downgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (OEM) to Windows Server 2012 Standard, the reason being instability of WS 2012 R2, most probably caused by incompatibility with the RAID ...
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VMWare - Windows XP guest licensing [duplicate]
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If I have a VMWare ESXi server with 4 Windows XP guests running on it, I understand that I need a separate license for ...
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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 ...
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Microsoft Licensing - Can I use the wrong product key? [closed]
We are in the process of moving our Microsoft software licensing from Microsoft Action Pack Subscription to Open Value Licensing. We have enough licenses for all the software that we have purchased ...
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