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You don't have a cal for each user. Say you have rest api server, which talks to sql server. This doens't require a CAL for each user.

by UK-AL 11y ago

polskibus 11y ago
from 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/... : The front end servers used to host your website would generally be considered as running “web workloads” and CALs or External Connectors will not be required to access these servers. Once the customer adds a widget to their shopping cart, creates an account and enters their credit card and shipping information to complete the sale – they are now authenticated via your back end commerce servers/application (non-web workload). Since users are accessing the backend commerce servers which web workloads are not running – CALs or External Connectors will be required for users to access these back end servers.
- UK-AL 11y ago
  You would per core licensing, not Server + CAL licensing for the SQL Server. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/server-cloud/products/sql-server/purchasing.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/server-cloud/products/sql-se... I thought this would be obvious, since Server + CAL Licensing would make any public site unfeasible, and there are many large sites running on the windows stack.
  - polskibus 11y ago
    But you also need CALs for the Windows Server your database sits on.
    - UK-AL 11y ago
      External connector lisence. Also I read some Ms documentation that a windows server that runs the database for web workloads may acutally come under web workload. I can't remember that document however.
      - polskibus 11y ago
        I don't remember exact number but external connector license is equal to a cost of hundreds if not thousands of CALs. If you come across that document, I'd be grateful for a URL.

You don't have a cal for each user. Say you have rest api server, which talks to sql server. This doens't require a CAL for each user.

by UK-AL 11y ago

You don't have a cal for each user. Say you have rest api server, which talks to sql server. This doens't require a CAL for each user.

polskibus 11y ago

from 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/... : The front end servers used to host your website would generally be considered as running “web workloads” and CALs or External Connectors will not be required to access these servers. Once the customer adds a widget to their shopping cart, creates an account and enters their credit card and shipping information to complete the sale – they are now authenticated via your back end commerce servers/application (non-web workload). Since users are accessing the backend commerce servers which web workloads are not running – CALs or External Connectors will be required for users to access these back end servers.

UK-AL 11y ago
You would per core licensing, not Server + CAL licensing for the SQL Server. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/server-cloud/products/sql-server/purchasing.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/server-cloud/products/sql-se... I thought this would be obvious, since Server + CAL Licensing would make any public site unfeasible, and there are many large sites running on the windows stack.
- polskibus 11y ago
  But you also need CALs for the Windows Server your database sits on.
  - UK-AL 11y ago
    External connector lisence. Also I read some Ms documentation that a windows server that runs the database for web workloads may acutally come under web workload. I can't remember that document however.
    - polskibus 11y ago
      I don't remember exact number but external connector license is equal to a cost of hundreds if not thousands of CALs. If you come across that document, I'd be grateful for a URL.