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You do need an external connector license for the servers that aren't running "web workloads" (serving pages), e.g., a database or mid-tier application server.

by wrs 11y ago

You do need an external connector license for the servers that aren't running "web workloads" (serving pages), e.g., a database or mid-tier application server. See question 5 at http://blogs.technet.com/b/volume-licensing/archive/2014/03/10/licensing-how-to-when-do-i-need-a-client-access-license-cal.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/volume-licensing/archive/2014/03/... That blog post is also a great demonstration of the hilariously complicated MS licensing regime. Hilarious if you don't have to deal with it, that is.

polskibus 11y ago
Thanks a lot for the link! It seems that if I have a web app and database on the same server then user<->web app does not require CAL even if database is involved in handling that web app work load! That's good news for my use case. It really shows how twisted MS licensing is if MS licensing staff does not understand MS licensing ) I am not sure however, whether this changes if authentication is involved - is it still a publicly available web solution or not? I really hope ASP.NET will become rock solid soon on Linux so one can avoid MS licensing twists altogether,