Re: RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan Link
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 8:0

RE: RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread David Lum
t 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 tryin

Re: RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan
+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 e

RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
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

Re: RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan
Like most other MS OS licensing, isn't there a 120 day eval for SBS? If so, as long as you will only have that environment up for 120 days or less, and the fact that it is a temporary test environment, I'd be inclined to say it falls under the intent of 120 day eval... but I am not a lawyer and YMM

RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Cornetet
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 (thi