May be of interest, but there will be a session (possibly a pre-con) dedicated to licensing at IT/Dev Connections. The session will be given by Wes Miller with Directions on Microsoft.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nash Pherson Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center licensing The only people who can definitively answer licensing and cost questions are your sales folks at Microsoft. There are several ways to license ConfigMgr. If you plan to use more than one System Center product, often times it is cheaper to buy the OS+SC Suite all together. Your Microsoft Account Rep will be able to break down the costs based on what you have (and plan to have) and the different ways to license everything. Nash From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beardsley, James Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 8:49 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] System Center licensing Could the licensing be any more confusing? Wondering if someone could help me out. It's time for our Microsoft true-up and we've been given the option to upgrade to the Core Infrastructure Server Suite (Datacenter) which apparently includes the entire SC suite and unlimited OSE's. So is CIS a requirement if all we want is the ConfigMgr client on workstations and servers? Right now we only have the client on workstations and we're wanting to start putting it on servers as well. Does that require upgrading our license? We may at some point look at using OpsMgr (and other SC products) but as of right now, that's not needed. So I don't know if we'd benefit from upgrading to CIS Datacenter. I'm trying to put together some info for the CIO to help make his decision on whether we need to upgrade to CIS or not. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, James _____ IRS Compliance: Any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties imposed under the Internal Revenue Code or applicable state or local tax law or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. _____ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.
