I don't know. Granted, this DOC looks to be related to government and educational licensing, but look at the "If I have Windows Vista Enterprise, what can I downgrade to?" section. It sure reads like you are able to downgrade
-----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 8:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista & CAL Licensing - revisited 2) is correct. See http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b198-7b9 d3fe15611/downgrade_chart.doc. "FPP" is the retail product. Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 June, 2008 16:46 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista & CAL Licensing - revisited I just had a rather lengthy discussion with my MS licensing rep and some interesting things came out that I had never heard before. Anyone else hearing this? 1) You can't virtualize a volume Vista license unless you have software assurance, but if you do have SA, you can have 4 VMs plus the host with that 1 license. 2) No retail Vista licenses have downgrade rights, even Ultimate. On top of that, he confirmed what we talked about earlier about external connector licenses and CALS for ANY access to server software. Every Internet facing server that has anything but anonymous web users (and that's not the technical IIS definition but that we really have no way of identifying them) needs an external connector license or standard CALs if the identified user is an employee or affiliate (more than 50% ownership). In my example, I have 4 Win2K3 Std Ed. Servers: an FTP server, 3rd party portal server, and simple POP3/SMTP mail server all with a SQL backend which require me to purchase 4 external connector licenses for the users that are not employed by us and the appropriate amount of CALS for those users that are employed by my company - even if we're not using AD or any form of Windows auth. Clear as mud? :) - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
