Cor Cronje
Active Member
I having trouble with the "Microsoft Volume Licensing Advisor", and need some advice on MS Volume Licensing for our 2013-2014 IT budget.
We would like to migrate all (most, 90/100) of our desktop users to terminal services on Windows 2012, with about ten desktop users working as normal domain users. We currently have a MS Windows Server 2008 STD server with 100 user CAL's and Exchange 2010 with 100 CAL's, set-up as the PDC, and would like to deploy the terminal server on a separate hardware platform, and phase-out the desktop workstations with thin clients over the next three years. Some users will occasionally use their mobile devices to remotely access their terminal server desktop.
The users also have large amounts of documents that is shared, and restricted between them, via mapped shared drives, a private user drive, and group (departmental) accessible drives, where some users have access to multiple department's data.
We are also going to need MS SQL Server 2012, since we will be introducing an ERP system (SAP, SYSPRO or Pastel EVO).
Am I correct if I budget for the following software licenses, with software assurance?
1. Windows Server 2012 Enterprise
2. 100 x Remote Desktop Services CAL's
3. 95 x Office 2013 Standard
4. 5 x Office 2013 PRO
5. Sharepoint Server 2012
6. 100 x Sharepoint CAL's
7. SQL Server 2012
8. SQL Server 2012 CAL's (or do I rather license this per CPU core?)
9. 10 Windows 8 PRO (upgrade the 10 desktop nodes from Win7 to Win8)
*The workstation phase-out will entail the removal the current desktop OS and installing a customized Linux OS with and RDP client on the workstation, until it is replaced by a proper thin client device.
If you could assist me with some, estimated, pricing, that will be great too.
Thanking you in advance.
We would like to migrate all (most, 90/100) of our desktop users to terminal services on Windows 2012, with about ten desktop users working as normal domain users. We currently have a MS Windows Server 2008 STD server with 100 user CAL's and Exchange 2010 with 100 CAL's, set-up as the PDC, and would like to deploy the terminal server on a separate hardware platform, and phase-out the desktop workstations with thin clients over the next three years. Some users will occasionally use their mobile devices to remotely access their terminal server desktop.
The users also have large amounts of documents that is shared, and restricted between them, via mapped shared drives, a private user drive, and group (departmental) accessible drives, where some users have access to multiple department's data.
We are also going to need MS SQL Server 2012, since we will be introducing an ERP system (SAP, SYSPRO or Pastel EVO).
Am I correct if I budget for the following software licenses, with software assurance?
1. Windows Server 2012 Enterprise
2. 100 x Remote Desktop Services CAL's
3. 95 x Office 2013 Standard
4. 5 x Office 2013 PRO
5. Sharepoint Server 2012
6. 100 x Sharepoint CAL's
7. SQL Server 2012
8. SQL Server 2012 CAL's (or do I rather license this per CPU core?)
9. 10 Windows 8 PRO (upgrade the 10 desktop nodes from Win7 to Win8)
*The workstation phase-out will entail the removal the current desktop OS and installing a customized Linux OS with and RDP client on the workstation, until it is replaced by a proper thin client device.
If you could assist me with some, estimated, pricing, that will be great too.
Thanking you in advance.
