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Thomas Scheiderich

I am getting 2 new Servers and am going to put either W2K or Win2005 Server
on them.

I am trying to figure out the myriad of options for buying them.

Machine 1:

Will be an IIS Web Server only. There will probably be only about 5 or 6
people connecting from inside the office. There will however, be many
connections from the outside to the Web Server (I hope). How are
connections counted in this case? What type of license would I need to
handle this? One for each connection? How many connections does a Web
Server count for?

Machine 2:

Will be an Sql Server 2000 Server. I will have here, again, about 5 or 6
people connecting as well as the IIS Web Server. How do you count
Connections for the W2K Server as well as Sql Server? It's very confusing.

Thanks,

Tom.
 
i assume you mean 2003 server, not 2005
to answer your questions, first you don't need licenses for IIS. if you have
people connected to your server (inside or out) for regular http get
requests (accessing your web site) you don't need licenses for that.

second, you do need licenses if you have users on the inside accessing your
server, not for IIS, but for server resources itself (files, printers, etc)
and you would need separate client access licenses for sql server.
 
me said:
i assume you mean 2003 server, not 2005
to answer your questions, first you don't need licenses for IIS. if you have
people connected to your server (inside or out) for regular http get
requests (accessing your web site) you don't need licenses for that.

Sorry, I meant 2003.

This is what is driving me crazy. I have many people telling me
contradicting things. This included Microsoft. I was talking to the
Licensing department today and never could get a straight answer from them.

One guy was telling me that you don't need licenses for the IIS to access
Sql Server on another machine. One was saying that you would use a Device
Cal, as the web server would be one device. Another saying that this was
multiplexing (something like that), so you could not use it as a Device Cal
and would have get the Processor license (4500 for the processor licence vs
1500 for standard with 5 licenses). Still another was saying that you were
authenticating from the Web Server you would need Cals for that (or the
Processor license) but not if you were not authenticating and just sending
them information (not sure what they meant by that).

Then there is the issue of the Windows 2003 itself. One said this would
also need a processor license (not about to use a dual xeon system here as
you need to double it). By the time you are done with just a small web
system you are in about 20 - 30 thousand just for the software.

I did figure that I could use the developer version of Sql Server for my
development and put off the purchase of the full system until later.

Thanks,

Tom.
 

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