Moved all roles from SBS to windows 2003 Server.... now

While physically my office can't handle more then 75 users, and i dont think
we will EVER be close to that , i was just wondering..


If i try to get a 76th person on the server will the original SBS AD
restrictions kick in and stop it?

Do the licensing restrictions from SBS still apply even though there is no
SBS machine on the network??

What if i have 100 licenses for the 2003 standard machine, i assume 25 are
trash in the current setup??

Meinolf
Tue Aug 19 23:12:57 PDT 2008

Hello realized,

Better post this one to:
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

Best regards

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> While physically my office can't handle more then 75 users, and i dont
> think we will EVER be close to that , i was just wondering..
>
> If i try to get a 76th person on the server will the original SBS AD
> restrictions kick in and stop it?
>
> Do the licensing restrictions from SBS still apply even though there
> is no SBS machine on the network??
>
> What if i have 100 licenses for the 2003 standard machine, i assume 25
> are trash in the current setup??
>

Jorge
Wed Aug 20 10:07:53 PDT 2008

Hi

Please confirm all the answers at SBS ngs.

> If i try to get a 76th person on the server will the original SBS AD
> restrictions kick in and stop it?

No. You can create a thousand users or more, If I'm not mistaken, the
limitation is regarding to the nbr of users/devices connected at the same
time.

> Do the licensing restrictions from SBS still apply even though there is no
> SBS machine on the network??

SBS licensing is for SBS environments, so it only applies to SBS domains.
SBS licensing is NOT equal to other windows licensing. If there is no SBS
machine on the network you won't buy SBS licenses.

> What if i have 100 licenses for the 2003 standard machine, i assume 25 are
> trash in the current setup??

SBS licenses applies to the entire domain including access to other
machines. When having SBS domain you must have SBS licenses. These licenses
are different from SBS versions to SBS versions. For example, if IRC in SBS
2003 R2, having a SBS R2 license means that the machines/users had access to
all additional Exchange servers or SQL, however this was not true in SBS
2003.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services