I'm coming into this a bit late, but since you're billing time and materials here, I'm trying to figure out the scope of your project. The OP just states that you're intested in standing up a 2008 DC. The question is why. Is it your intention to migrate away from SBS 2003 and go with...what, separate DC's, separate Exchange?
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > Cool. I do my best to keep everything in compliance and I realize there > are grey areas like this. My thinking was if it wasn’t a unanimous “hell no > you can’t do that” for what I’m doing I should be Ok. What’s effectively > happening is I am testing the DR process and I just happen to be testing a > DC upgrade against the restored system. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t > missing something obvious. > > > > Now I will try and figure out how much of this testing is appropriate to > bill the client for and how much should just fall under my time for > education – that should be easy enough… > > > > Thanks! > > Dave > > > > *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:09 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: RE: Licensing Q. > > > > +1 > > The BSA generally only comes knocking on your door if they have reason to > believe that someone is blatantly trying to avoid paying for licensing. It > is obvious from your email that you are concerned about remaining compliant. > That in and of itself would likely go a long way if in fact you are ever hit > with a discovery/investigation. > > Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) > on the Verizon network. > > On Feb 10, 2011 9:45 AM, "Kennedy, Jim" <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> > wrote: > > First, I do not believe that it is humanly possible to be compliant with > Microsoft Licensing. Even with 50 full time employees who only check > licensing requirements in an environment of only 49 computers there would > still be some kind of weird violation. > > > > You are building a box to test and will be quickly upgrading it to 2008 > DC to test a migration. Just do it. You end result will be compliant I am > sure...how you get there will not trigger the Microsoft SWAT team to break > down your door. If you are trying to be correct and you are out of > compliance on a minor issue for a couple of days as you move towards a > compliant migration they just won't care. > > > > > > 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 > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
