Cool. I do my best to keep everything in compliance and I realize there are grey areas like this. My thinking was if it wasn't a unanimous "hell no you can't do that" for what I'm doing I should be Ok. What's effectively happening is I am testing the DR process and I just happen to be testing a DC upgrade against the restored system. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious.
Now I will try and figure out how much 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:[email protected]] 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 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 ever hit with a discovery/investigation. Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 10, 2011 9:45 AM, "Kennedy, Jim" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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 be quickly upgrading it to 2008 DC to > test a migration. Just do it. You end result will be compliant I am > sure...how you get there will not trigger the Microsoft SWAT team to break > down your door. If you are trying to be correct and you are out of compliance > on a minor issue for a couple of days as you move towards a compliant > migration they just won't care. > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > 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 (think I) have the capability to test > upgrading to a 2008 DC in a sandbox. > > Question: Am I violating a license agreement by using a copy of the > production SBS server in a VM environment to test changes that if successful > will get deployed to the production SBS server? The VM won't talk to anything > outside its sandbox I just intend to test a schema change and 2008 DC > addition so I can be comfortable what I doing will work in their environment. > I'm pretty sure the letter of the EULA is "only one copy bub" but I don't > think what I'd like to do is really against the intent. I can't imagine MS > would want me to buy an SBS 2003 license just to stand up a test box just to > test a change. > > Or maybe they do? > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
