Checking License Usage in SBS 4.5
#1
Moderator
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 1998
Location: Staffs
Posts: 23,573
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
SBS 4.5 (So NT4).
I want to see the license allocations to work out how many are free.
You can't use License Manager as it's disabled in SBS 4.5 - you get pointed to the SBS Console. This tells me there are 25 licenses installed but I couldn't see a way of checking the number free.
Suggestions?
TIA,
Chris.
I want to see the license allocations to work out how many are free.
You can't use License Manager as it's disabled in SBS 4.5 - you get pointed to the SBS Console. This tells me there are 25 licenses installed but I couldn't see a way of checking the number free.
Suggestions?
TIA,
Chris.
#2
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: wakefield
Posts: 2,082
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Chris, there are no limits to the amount of users you can create, but only 50 can log on together....but you know this already
It's been a while since I worked with sbs 4 or 4.5, but you activate licences independantly that install in the registry, then you use the web interface (the 1 that was designed for spastics), then this tells you how many licences you have activated...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/reskit/sbs45res/part8/sbrk0840.asp
shunty
It's been a while since I worked with sbs 4 or 4.5, but you activate licences independantly that install in the registry, then you use the web interface (the 1 that was designed for spastics), then this tells you how many licences you have activated...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/reskit/sbs45res/part8/sbrk0840.asp
shunty
#3
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: wakefield
Posts: 2,082
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
oopps, just re-read your post, surely you just use server mangler & see how many peeps are logged on, ie if 12 are logged on you have 13 licences free if you have bought 25 user licence..
but just disable the licence service & then you can run 50 clients on with a 5 licence pack
shunty
but just disable the licence service & then you can run 50 clients on with a 5 licence pack
shunty
Trending Topics
#8
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (7)
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Stalking Kate Beckinsale
Posts: 4,265
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I find that the sbs 4.5 and 2000 licence manager track licences/logons even worse than the standard versions. As long as my clients are covered licence-wise for the users that they have, I always disable it.
Cheers,
Nick
Cheers,
Nick
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Mattybr5@MB Developments
Full Cars Breaking For Spares
12
18 November 2015 07:03 AM
toyney83
General Technical
10
02 October 2015 08:38 PM