Volume Licensing for x64 and in Multiple Languages including some FAQ on RTM Eval and Editions
Announcing Volume Licensing availability for x86 and x64 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions and Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Traditional, English, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish). Go get 'em at https://licensing.microsoft.com! Still working with the MSDN folks. Office 2007, InfoPath 2007, Visio 2007, Project 2007 (Various German, Japanese, English) are all available via MSDN.
As people download the eval copies of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Standard and Enterprise, questions have come up. I wanted to make sure some of these threads made their way to the blogosphere.
Q. What if I download the Standard Eval, what will it take to "upgrade" to the MOSS 2007 Standard edition for Production?
A. Simple. Add the key, the bits are the same.
Q. Can I have x64 SQL 2005 and 32bit x86 MOSS Servers?
A. Yes
Q. Can I go from Standard Eval to Enterprise Edition?
A. Yes, enter your key and activate the enterprise features. Refer to the supported upgrade matrix for more details.
Q. How long do the eval/trials last?
A. 180 days. You can enter your Standard or Enterprise key any time during or after the evaluation.
Q. When do I enter the key?
A. You can enter the key on setup. If you want to change the key after the fact, go to the central admin, operations, convert license type. On the same operations tab, you can activate enterprise features.
Q. When would I ever use the Standard key over Enterprise?
A. We'd like to think most of our customers would want to run the Enterprise edition. The Enterprise edition contains Excel Services features, Web based Business Forms, the Reports Center KPIs, etc... and is inclusive of what Standard contains. The Standard server contains Web Content Management, Records Management, Enterprise Search capabilities, My Sites, Audiences, Profiles, and Information Management Policies Expiration/Auditing. More details on the following charts features comparison, edition comparison, and differences.
Q. Is there a # of documents restriction on MOSS Standard Edition.
A. No, you can index up to 50M documents per SSP, but this is not a hard limit. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search Standard Edition is limited to indexing 500,000 documents.
Q. Does .NET Framework 3.0 include Workflow Foundation and the latest version of .NET?
A. Yes, the newest release .NET 3.0 includes our dependencies on Windows Workflow Foundation with the power of .NET 2.0. (If I can quote the .NET site)
Q. Do you support running Project Server 2007 on the same server as WSS, MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise?
A. Yes, we do support running Project Server 2007 RTM on WSS RTM, MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise RTM. Note Project Server will create the SSP if installed on a WSS server, and plug into the SSP if MOSS 2007 is already installed.
Q. If I installed the x86 MOSS Enterprise Eval can I get to x64 MOSS Enterprise edition?
A. Yes. There are a number of ways to do this. First you add your key. Next if this is a server farm you could pull out a Web Front end, rebuild and re-add, then rebuild the rest of the farm one step at a time. We support a mixed x86 (32 bit) and x64 environment.
Q. Do you support Itanium.
A. Not for the WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 servers. You could run an Itanium SQL 2005 environment.
Q. What are the Office Server SKUs? Wasn't there some Forms or Search SKU?
A. Yes, Lots of Love. In addition to WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 Standard edition and MOSS Enterprise edition, there are some specialized SKUs... SharePoint Server for Search and Microsoft Office Forms Server, Refer to the FAQ for more info on licensing. More to come. You may have also heard of Forefront, our antivirus protection for WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server including the other SKUs mentioned here.
Joel Oleson
