They want you to buy an MSDN license for that. From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Licensing Q.
I have a client that just last night I stood up their 2nd Hyper-V server. They are an SBS 2003 shop and now I (think I) have the capability to test upgrading to a 2008 DC in a sandbox. Question: Am I violating a license agreement by using a copy of the production SBS server in a VM environment to test changes that if successful will get deployed to the production SBS server? The VM won't talk to anything outside its sandbox I just intend to test a schema change and 2008 DC addition so I can be comfortable what I doing will work in their environment. I'm pretty sure the letter of the EULA is "only one copy bub" but I don't think what I'd like to do is really against the intent. I can't imagine MS would want me to buy an SBS 2003 license just to stand up a test box just to test a change. Or maybe they do? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
