Confused about Licensing???

I'll try to keep this simple. We're interested in making
the move to one of the Server 2003 packages. The plan is
to have 2 Servers for 50 clients. One server will be a
file server and the second will be an e-mail server.

It seems like Small Business Edition would be appropriate
for our e-mail server because it has Exchange Server
already built in but I'm not sure if I would get a second
version for my file server. My guess is that I would buy
a Standard edition for my file server and then pick up the
extra licenses seperately for both.

Does this make sense?

Go with "per seat" licenses (or whatever they call it now..."per user"?).
Get 50 of them and it covers however many servers you have. The server
itself only needs the license to install it on the machine. Exchange has
it's own variatsion of the licenses.

Server licenses: 2 (one for each machine)
Client Access licenses: 50
Exchange Client Access Licenses: 50

If you already have the "1 & 50 & 50" via SBS then you only need one Server
License to install the extra Server copy on the other machine. This does not
mean that you can install Exchange or any other SBS component on the other
server.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'll try to keep this simple. We're interested in making
> the move to one of the Server 2003 packages. The plan is
> to have 2 Servers for 50 clients. One server will be a
> file server and the second will be an e-mail server.
>
> It seems like Small Business Edition would be appropriate
> for our e-mail server because it has Exchange Server
> already built in but I'm not sure if I would get a second
> version for my file server. My guess is that I would buy
> a Standard edition for my file server and then pick up the
> extra licenses seperately for both.
>
> Does this make sense?