Rob Eberhardt

Sunday, July 17, 2005

SBS 2003 CAL suckiness

I have a new client who recently guessed their way through a SBS 2003 setup. THEN they called us to fix it. This has been quite the cleanup. I gotta get me a Haz-mat suit. Imagine and enjoy at my expense, some highlights:

Exchange mailboxes not configured for the POP3 Connector (so email was removed from the ISP's mailbox, and dropped into Oblivion).
No backups, no (or patchy) virus/spyware protection (and plenty of spyware).
Moving from a XP Pro "server", which fell apart when we tried to join it to the domain (due to loads of spyware).
XP Home machines trying to use the new server.
No extra CALs for the 12 user accounts. Yes, that's 12 users competing for the 5 licenses that come with SBS. "Denied!"

And now (drumroll please)...

Amid extensive VPN, OWA, and OMA use, a vendor who supplied us with Device CALs instead of User CALs (and didn't mention it until we'd already activated them!)

Crap.

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7/17/2005 2:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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8/23/2006 11:20:13 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Well, good news at least: the vendor made it right. We even got to keep the extra Device CALs (which should provide a little extra padding).
 
 No idea how smart SBS is about doling them out, tho. I wonder which it hands out first?
 So if it hands out device CALs first, does it recognize further connections with same user/diff device, and switch over to a user CAL?
 Or VV: if user CALs, does it see other connections with diff user/same device, and switch over to a device CAL?
 
 Hmm. Hopefully I'll never need to research that one. As Susan "SBS" Bradley says, they should drop user/device-specific CALs, and offer "Just plain SBS CALs" (<a target="_new" href="http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/06/21.aspx">http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/06/21.aspx</a>).

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