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Anyone care to explain an Enterprise CAL vs. the Internet Connection Site license?  Do I need both?  Very hard to budget for your product with so many options.....

So I'm about to install SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 for my small business. Now, I realize it's a beta but I've heard people say it's fairly stable so I'm not so worried about that part.

However, since the Beta expires Feb 1, 2007:

1) Would the upgrade from the Beta to the RTM version be a headache or this this mostly an academic exercise of entering a security key or something equivalent?

2) What if the RTM is delayed (heaven forbid!). What would happen to the Beta version if the RTM is delayed beyond February 2007?

Keep spreading the good word! :)

Jorgen...

Thank You.

From the Upgrade section of the MOSS FAQ (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101655351033.aspx?pid=CL100626951033#4):

  Question: How do customers license an upgrade from Content Management Server 2002?

  Answer: Depending on their usage scenario, customers who purchased Content Management Server 2002 with software assurance will be able to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The CAL granted depends on the site usage. For complete details, refer to the Microsoft Product List (http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/PL.aspx) for Volume licensing page.

  The better answer is that you should work with your Microsoft account team, which has been provided specific guidance on how to address your particular scenario, which is "using MCMS 2002 within the intranet at a company with lots of people."

Sharepoint Internet Server 2007 is approx $50K + depending on your licence. Plus you need windows server 2003 external licence and any SQL external requirements.

Intranet solution

Standard - buy just standard cals and sharepoint server

Enterprise - you need to buy the standard and enterprise cals for all staff plus the server.

i dont understand why Sharepoint has the CMS in the package as there is no point if you can not use it to have pages dispalying webcontent without adding 2 - 3 times as much money on licencing. Given you still need to do development where does microsoft get off on charging so much for a company to push out a simple website to there customers and let them search.

The bottom line is this product is expensive as an internet solution and you are better to go pay 20,000 for a fully decked out CMS system for your internet site.

Unfortunately Microsoft seems to not cater for creating a website for any business that can not afford $50K before any development work.

We are developing an extranet portal site for resellers of our product as well as an extranet site for customer support. Both will be accessible only by AD logins set up in advance, and the information for these parties will not be available through Sharepoint to non-authorized Internet visitors. Does the "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites" license apply to this scenario or is it simply for Internet sites that require no security/authentication of users?

It appears that the internet license is for external facing sites only. All internal users will need CAL's.

The other interesting piece for the CAL's is that there is regular CAL and an Enterprise CAL. If your internal users need the Enterprise functionality, they need to have a combination of the standard CAL + the Enterprise CAL.

Could they make this any more confusing if they tried?

Am I correct?

For SharePoint services (2.0, 3.0) we do not need any SQL Server license.

For Search for SharePoint STANDARD - the SQL Server license is embeded in Search f SP license and I also need no SQL CAL.

For Search for SharePoint Enterprise I need to buy SQL Server and license it either Server/CAL or PPL.

For SharePoint for Internet I need to buy SQL Server and license it either Server/CAL - if named users, or PPL if there are SOME unidentified users. (Regarding Windows Server I might have Device/User CALs or External Connector - if it is cost effective; can I also have Per Server Licensing option?)

For SharePoint SERVER I need to buy SQL Server and license it Server/CAL or PPL?

In other words: No SQL license for Svcs, no separately paid SQL license for Standard Search, fully paid SQL licenses as appropriate in any other scenario?

This information I can not find in PUR, Product List, MOSS FAQs... :-( Thank you very much for your help!

Darina

Is there any comparison available for Microsoft Office 2007 with its previous versions?

I'm new to all the Sharepoint products and am more than a wee bit confused (and no the spreadsheet didn't help at all.)

Are Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and Office Sharepoint Server 2007 the same product with just a new name and version number for the '07 version, or will there at some point be a Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 with some confusing overlapping feature set?

Much thanks in advance. - Anthony

I guess, you can just start SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the SQL server instance and operate with its databases as usual when working with SQL. If you chose default settings when you were setting up Sharepoint Server 2007, the OSS SQL server instance should be named as OFFICESERVERS. You can find the name by opening the Services snap-in and finding all running SQL server instances which will have names SQL Server (Instance name). When connected to the server, you'll need the SharePoint_AdminContent database. Not a very handy way, but still it should work. Fore more info about using the studio see the tutorial by Microsoft (technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms167593(SQL.90).aspx). The only operation I know of and can suppose to be easy doable now is permission management. When there were reports from the latter Teched show I've read there about the tool that implements the functionality to ease the security management for sharepoint. If I am not mistaken that was showed by Scriptlogic (http://www.scriptlogic.com). What I have seen there, looked pretty easy manageable and far more handy from my point of view compared to how I do it myself now. I will be insterested in getting more information about the available ways to manage security levels for the sharepoint sites. See this thread (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1656729&SiteID=1) on the info about working with configuration database and migrating to SQL server.

Has anyone answered any of these questions? I have a lot of the same ones....

Do i need to buy CAL for read-only users in SharePoint server 2007?