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by bohicam1

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I need a clarification here. I usually support clients with existing licenses in place. A new client has asked me to purchase and configure a new server. My question is, if I build this server and buy win2003 server with 5 client access licenses, does this mean that 5 copies of client software are included or do I still need to purchase them separately?

Thanks,
Mike

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by justanadmin

Anna's answer is absolutely correct.

Just to clarify. You will need a license for each computer with an OS on it. So, for every workstation, it has to have its own license for whatever operating system it has installed.

On the server side, youhave to have a license for the server OS, as well client license for every connection that is going to be made to the server. So, if you had 100 workstations that were going to connect to the server at the same time, you would need to have 100 client acacess licenses for the server. Essentially, each workstation has its own OS license AND a second license to access to server.

Hopefully that makes sense, I am starting to confuse myself here! :)

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