CAL question

S

Sandy

I have a question regarding licensing and I was wondering
if someone could help me.

I have a resource role that involves simple data entry and
as such I have created a Data Entry resource in the
Enterprise Resource Pool. I do not always have the same
person doing the data entry so that I could have 2 or 3
people potentially recording actuals as this Data Entry
resource.

My question is this, how many CAL's do I require if I have
one Resource entitled Data Entry but could have up to 3
different people logging on as this Data Entry person?

Thanks

Sandy
 
G

Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]

Sandy:

You have the option to license each user, or license one machine that the
users share.
 
B

Brian K - Project MVP

Sandy said:
I have a question regarding licensing and I was wondering
if someone could help me.

I have a resource role that involves simple data entry and
as such I have created a Data Entry resource in the
Enterprise Resource Pool. I do not always have the same
person doing the data entry so that I could have 2 or 3
people potentially recording actuals as this Data Entry
resource.

My question is this, how many CAL's do I require if I have
one Resource entitled Data Entry but could have up to 3
different people logging on as this Data Entry person?

Thanks

Sandy
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It depends if you are using Project SErver 2002 or 2003.

2002 CALS are Machine based. That is any machine that accessing Project
Server needs a cal. Even if 100 people use that machine you still only
need one cal. But by the same token if you have two machines and need
to access Project Server from both you need two cals.

Project SErver 2003 has both machine CALs and User CALs. A user CAL
covers a person on any number of machines they might use to access
project server while the machine cal is the same as above.

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B

Brian K - Project MVP

You only need one.

Stuart
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Actually not always.

As I said in my other post. If they have Machine CALs they would only
need one ONLY if all three of these people were logging in from the
same physical client machine. If each of these three people had their
own machine and accessed PWA from those three machines then they would
need 3 CALs (Assuming they owned Machine cALs)


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Project MVP
http://projectified.typepad.com

Project Server Consultant
www.quantumpm.com
 
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