Hi everyone

i need to buy the correct cals for exchange for my customer
after reading forums and contacting Microsoft still I m still confused to what to buy

i hope someone here can ask me :)

let say the scenario:

in 2004 my customer buyed this:

there are 15 secretary with 15 pc in active directory connected to windows server std 2003 on which it was installed exchange std 2003, the pc use some folders on server for documents and 14 of these secretary have a personal mailbox on exchange, so i bought 15 device cals for windows server and 15 device cals for exchange (one for a generic mailbox).

in every computer i created two outlook profiles, one for the person (nadia@xxx.com) and one for a generic mailbox (let say info@xxx.com which is on the exchange itself)

so the users can read the generic emails other than his personal mails, switching between the 2 outlook profiles

In 2014 we needed to expand space due to the 75gb limit so we buyed a new windows server std 2012 (downgraded to 2008) and exchange 2013 (downgraded to 2010) plus 5 user windows cals and 5 user exchange cals.

I migrated the more big mailboxes (5) to the new server so i got free space on the old server.

now the scenario is this: 10 users still use their old mailbox on 2003 server and the other 5 user access the new exchange server 2010 and ofc still they have an outlook profile to info@xxx.com which is on the 2003 server.

To regolarize the licensing situation which cals should i buy? and how many?

thanks a lot

Hi everyone

i need to buy the correct cals for exchange for my customer
after reading forums and contacting Microsoft still I m still confused to what to buy

i hope someone here can ask me :)

let say the scenario:

in 2004 my customer buyed this:

there are 15 secretary with 15 pc in active directory connected to windows server std 2003 on which it was installed exchange std 2003, the pc use some folders on server for documents and 14 of these secretary have a personal mailbox on exchange, so i bought 15 device cals for windows server and 15 device cals for exchange (one for a generic mailbox).

in every computer i created two outlook profiles, one for the person (nadia@xxx.com) and one for a generic mailbox (let say info@xxx.com which is on the exchange itself)

so the users can read the generic emails other than his personal mails, switching between the 2 outlook profiles

In 2014 we needed to expand space due to the 75gb limit so we buyed a new windows server std 2012 (downgraded to 2008) and exchange 2013 (downgraded to 2010) plus 5 user windows cals and 5 user exchange cals.

I migrated the more big mailboxes (5) to the new server so i got free space on the old server.

now the scenario is this: 10 users still use their old mailbox on 2003 server and the other 5 user access the new exchange server 2010 and ofc still they have an outlook profile to info@xxx.com which is on the 2003 server.

To regolarize the licensing situation which cals should i buy? and how many?

thanks a lot

No one here is qualified to answer those questions. You will have to contact a liicense reseller or Microsoft directly.

Hi,

Thank you for your question.

I agree with Andy. For licensing question, we must redirect them to customer service by the following link:

http://support2.microsoft.com/gp/customer-service-phone-numbers/en-gb?wa=wsignin1.0

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know. 

Best Regard,

Jim