IIS Licensing

[Guest]

Hi,

We develop an IIS based web based application distributed on Win2003
standart server, I wonder, our web site should be access by few dozen users
at a time what IIS licensing is provided with "Win2003 standart server"?
should it be enough? should we have additional licensing? what is the cost of
licensing IIS ( if needed at-all ) ?

Any help comment or link would be appreciated.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Hi,

We develop an IIS based web based application distributed on Win2003
standart server, I wonder, our web site should be access by few dozen
users
at a time what IIS licensing is provided with "Win2003 standart server"?
should it be enough? should we have additional licensing? what is the cost
of
licensing IIS ( if needed at-all ) ?

You can use it as is.

You need nothing extra,
IIRC only XP pro has a constrain, you can only create one site and no more
than X users can be connected at teh same time

 

[Ben Voigt]

Hi,



You can use it as is.

You need nothing extra,
IIRC only XP pro has a constrain, you can only create one site and no more
than X users can be connected at teh same time

IIRC, unless you buy the Internet Connector, authenticated connections use
CALs, since you are using the Active Directory services. Again, unless you
have the Internet Connector, IIS limits anonymous connections to be equal to
the number of installed CALs, even though they don't consume CALs.

 

[Andy]

The alternative to buying Internet Connector is to buy Windows server
2003 Web Edition. You don't need to worry about user cals for
authenciated web users (although you still need cals for backend
connections, such as Sql Server).