jamin100 Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Can i just ask people in Birmingham schools about their licensing. How do you go about licensing XP and Server 2k3 ? Whenever I buy a new XP machine I buy a CAL. Whenever i buy a new server i buy a license for 2k3 from pugh.co.uk for about £50 Do i need to buy XP licenses as well?
ninjabeaver Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Yes mate. Well, depends if / what school agreement you have. A CAL (Client Access License) allows your XP license to "work" with W2K3 Server. An XP License allows you to legally install XP on a PC / Client machine.
jamin100 Posted July 4, 2008 Author Posted July 4, 2008 Well, depends if / what school agreement you have. This is the thing, I don't know what agreement we have. I presumed all primary and maybe secondary schools in Birmingham would have the same agreement.
DMcCoy Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Can i just ask people in Birmingham schools about their licensing. How do you go about licensing XP and Server 2k3 ? Whenever I buy a new XP machine I buy a CAL. Whenever i buy a new server i buy a license for 2k3 from pugh.co.uk for about £50 Do i need to buy XP licenses as well? If you are not getting XP Pro or Vista business then you will needs an upgrade volume license for the machine. It needs a qualifying base OS for the upgrade (XP Home, Vista Home etc)
projector1 Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 This is the thing, I don't know what agreement we have. I presumed all primary and maybe secondary schools in Birmingham would have the same agreement. i normally deal with Harry Watkins at the city he tends to keep the records link is BGfL - BGfL Homepage - BASS Software hth
localzuk Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 If you are buying as and when you buy computers, it sounds like you simply use normal volume licensing rather than a schools agreement or similar. If you buy your machines with XP on them already, make sure they have XP Pro on them. If they do, then you don't need additional XP licenses. If they have XP home or Vista home then you'd need to buy XP pro/vista business upgrade licenses. So, that means for a network you need: XP Pro licenses in some form CALS for each accessing machine 2k3 server licenses
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