SharePoint Server 2010 CALs: 100 User CALs for corporate + 500 Device CALs for hospital staff + 400 User CALs for physicians (there is also an additive eCAL required for some SharePoint functionality – more on that in a later posting)
Windows Server 2008 CALs: 100 User CALs for corporate + 500 Device CALs for hospital staff + 400 User CALs for physicians + 1 External Connector license for patients.Įxchange Server 2010 CALs: 100 User CALs for corporate + 500 Device CALs for hospital staff + 400 User CALs for physicians (there is also an additive eCAL required for some Exchange functionality – more on that in a later posting) Additionally, all employees use a SharePoint 2010 site to access company policies running on a Windows 2008 R2 quad processor server.
However you cannot use an External Connector license to replace internal use CALs.ĪBC Hospital has 100 corporate users who have computers, mobile devices and web access to their Exchange 2010 900 hospital staff who share the hospitals 500 workstations and do not have web access to their Exchange 2010 400 physician members who either use their own computers or the hospitals workstations and an unlimited number of patients who can access their medical history online in a third party solution by being authenticated by 1 of the hospitals Windows 2008 R2 servers. If you have external users (vendors, clients, etc) that are authenticated by your server you either need to have a CAL for them or if they number significantly high or cannot be counted you would go with an External Connector license for that server.Įxternal Connector licenses allow unlimited external access to a specific server. So, if your devices outnumber your users, buy User CALs…if your users outnumber your devices buy Device CALs (I’ll clarify this more below). The general rule of thumb is that you license the “least”. The list goes on and on.if you're using the resources of the server chances are there is a corresponding access license requirement.ĬALs come in three basic forms: user, device or external connector. If you're running SQL server to support SharePoint, you need a CAL or a processor license for SQL. If you then add SharePoint on that server, you also then need a CAL for that. For example if you're running Microsoft Windows server, each user or device requires a CAL.