Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Enterprise edition licensing question

Hi,
I currently have RS Standard Edition running on a box with SQL Server 2000
Standard Edition installed, licensed and running in per-processor mode.
At an ASP, I have a box (actually, the ASP's property) with SQL Server 2000
Enterprise Edition installed, licensed and running in CAL mode. Note that we
actually own the SQL Server licenses, it's just running on their hardware.
I will be connecting to both boxes for report data.
My question: Can I install RS Enterprise Edition on my box running Standard
Edition? I feel like I should be able to because I own the Enterprise
Licenses. Unfortunately, the ASP doesn't support the installation of RS on
the box they host.
ThanksYou're likely going to have to talk to your local Microsoft Sales office as
we're supposed to avoid licensing questions in the newsgroups unless we can
point you at something on our web site that explains it. We're not lawyers
and aren't supposed to pretend that we are. :-) Look around on
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/howtobuy/faq.asp and then head over
to http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/ to find the nearest sales office.
Sorry that I can't be more helpful...
Of course, immediately after sending this, somebody is likely to jump in
knowing the answer... :-)
--
Sincerely,
Stephen Dybing
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"PBR" <paul@.thesak.com*nospam*> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I currently have RS Standard Edition running on a box with SQL Server 2000
> Standard Edition installed, licensed and running in per-processor mode.
> At an ASP, I have a box (actually, the ASP's property) with SQL Server
> 2000
> Enterprise Edition installed, licensed and running in CAL mode. Note that
> we
> actually own the SQL Server licenses, it's just running on their hardware.
> I will be connecting to both boxes for report data.
> My question: Can I install RS Enterprise Edition on my box running
> Standard
> Edition? I feel like I should be able to because I own the Enterprise
> Licenses. Unfortunately, the ASP doesn't support the installation of RS on
> the box they host.
> Thanks
>|||I'll jump in with my interpretation because your (Paul, not Stephen)
assumption is a wrong one. You are assuming that the license is not tied to
a machine. It definitely is. For each machine that has RS server installed
you need a license. Note that whether or not SQL Server DB is on that
machine makes no difference. A completely supported configuration is to have
RS on a web server and the db on a differnt box (which I will be doing
eventually). That requires two licenses. One for the DB Server and one for
the server where RS is installed. It makes no difference where the data is
coming from. The server license is for the machine you have RS installed on.
This is why for web farms you need to buy a license for each web server with
RS installed on it.
Bruce L-C
"Stephen Dybing [MSFT]" <stephd@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You're likely going to have to talk to your local Microsoft Sales office
as
> we're supposed to avoid licensing questions in the newsgroups unless we
can
> point you at something on our web site that explains it. We're not lawyers
> and aren't supposed to pretend that we are. :-) Look around on
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/howtobuy/faq.asp and then head over
> to http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/ to find the nearest sales office.
> Sorry that I can't be more helpful...
> Of course, immediately after sending this, somebody is likely to jump in
> knowing the answer... :-)
> --
> Sincerely,
> Stephen Dybing
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "PBR" <paul@.thesak.com*nospam*> wrote in message
> news:OhSq1kTaEHA.3692@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I currently have RS Standard Edition running on a box with SQL Server
2000
> > Standard Edition installed, licensed and running in per-processor mode.
> >
> > At an ASP, I have a box (actually, the ASP's property) with SQL Server
> > 2000
> > Enterprise Edition installed, licensed and running in CAL mode. Note
that
> > we
> > actually own the SQL Server licenses, it's just running on their
hardware.
> >
> > I will be connecting to both boxes for report data.
> >
> > My question: Can I install RS Enterprise Edition on my box running
> > Standard
> > Edition? I feel like I should be able to because I own the Enterprise
> > Licenses. Unfortunately, the ASP doesn't support the installation of RS
on
> > the box they host.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>|||No, not legally. The license means you can install the software on a single
machine, if you want to install any piece such as Reporting Services or
Analysis Services on another box you need another license.
Mike Kruchten
"PBR" <paul@.thesak.com*nospam*> wrote in message
news:OhSq1kTaEHA.3692@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I currently have RS Standard Edition running on a box with SQL Server 2000
> Standard Edition installed, licensed and running in per-processor mode.
> At an ASP, I have a box (actually, the ASP's property) with SQL Server
2000
> Enterprise Edition installed, licensed and running in CAL mode. Note that
we
> actually own the SQL Server licenses, it's just running on their hardware.
> I will be connecting to both boxes for report data.
> My question: Can I install RS Enterprise Edition on my box running
Standard
> Edition? I feel like I should be able to because I own the Enterprise
> Licenses. Unfortunately, the ASP doesn't support the installation of RS on
> the box they host.
> Thanks
>

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