Sharepoint licensing
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Am I correct in that If I have 45 domain users with Windows 10 laptops I need a Sharepoint CAL for every in house user?
I hate the way Microsoft licensing explanations are written. I know there is a thread for this somewhere but wasn't sure if SharePoint was covered in that.
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You have Sharepoint in house? Not as part of O365?
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@Dashrender said in Sharepoint licensing:
You have Sharepoint in house? Not as part of O365?
We are a non-profit/school but do not have EDU status (still working on that). So we don't qualify for low/no cost O365 yet. I have 45 faculty and staff and 250 students. I currently do not have sharepoint at all. We have exchange in house but we have departments that are spreading all their files over Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
I am trying to figure out the best way to wrangle all those files back in house instead of having all of them all over the place and fighting with the departments for sharing rights to certain files.
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Why not look at FOSS solutions then? Something like NextCloud might be all you need.
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Don't forget about MS SQL licencing
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@flaxking said in Sharepoint licensing:
Don't forget about MS SQL licencing
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How about the free version of MS Teams until you get your licencing sorted out?
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@WLS-ITGuy said in Sharepoint licensing:
Am I correct in that If I have 45 domain users with Windows 10 laptops I need a Sharepoint CAL for every in house user?
Only for those that access Sharepoint AFAIK. That users are domain users has never had any connection to CALs in the MS world. Users are always counted, not domain users. It's the number of Sharepoint users that you have, nothing else.
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MS licensing on Sharepoint is as easy as licensing gets. It can't be more straightforward.
https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-licensing-overview
"For On-Premises, intranet sites are licensed using a Server/CAL (Client Access License) model. SharePoint Server 2019 is required for each running instance of the software, and CALs are required for each person or device accessing a SharePoint Server."
It's that simple. CALs are requires for each person or device accessing SP. That's it. Nothing more or less. It's not just easy, but exactly what you'd logically expect the licensing to do if they were being rational.
