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ZacTheSin · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject: Active directory licensing

Google isn't loading for some strange reason and am curious about some of the licensing things for Active Directory on Windows Server.

Do you know of anything like user limits, e.g. limits on how many users can be configured.
How licensing works for programs installed/activated to each user/PC?

Edit: Btw, the OS is Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise.
In Window's help things it says stuff about Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), noting stuff about commerce, digital certificates and certificate authorities.
So that isn't what I want if I want to manage program licensing.. That's more for things like, email encryption and network authentication..
Okay, so I don't need Certificate Services.

Domain Services..
This is turning into a blog...

Trow · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject:

Limits will in no way hit you (unless you work for a 65000-employee company with only one server)

My notes say "500 users" for something related to corporate pricing, but I'm guessing that figure is neither updated nor informative.

ZacTheSin · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

That's good to know, thanks

AhMunRa · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject:

ADUC doesn't really handle software licensing at all, cept for ADUC itself. It's more to control what resources and permissions users have across your network.

Things like MS Office installs, Acrobat Pro won't be handled by ADUC.

ZacTheSin · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:55 pm Post subject:

It does handle if users can access the programs you've installed locally, correct?

AhMunRa · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject:

Any servers do that. But if intent is to allow users to access a network install of office, how many users? Something like that will bring a T1 to it's knees from across a network to remote users.

ZacTheSin · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:55 pm Post subject:

It's all local users on a gigabit line.

AhMunRa · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:21 am Post subject:

Gigabit will work, but you will need to add everyone to a group that can access Office, (I ran into an issue where I was trying to use Server 2008 to generate custom pdf files on the fly using Office and PDF creator) the problem I ran into is that certain features of Office need to run as admin. I never actually got the issue resolved. The Office process would fire off as required but would never actually write the file. This was after specifying the user as System.

If you get this working please let me know how you did it. It might help me with my PDF issue.