SharePoint - WSS licensing

Asked By arneatwor

05-Jul-07 02:36 AM

Hi guys

We have a couple of Windows 2003 servers running at our organisation.

Now with MOSS 07 when you have server exposed to the internet their is
some major cost implications.

What I want to do is expose WSS standard to the internet, is there any
cost implication or extra licensing required for this.

I will mainly give anonomous access, but will maybe later consider
using database store for registering and authenticating new users.??

Thanks.

05-Jul-07 02:47 AM

You need an Internet Connection for *the server* . At ca 2K it's not too
expensive and probably only needed when you have named users.

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ http://www.wssfaq.com
no questions by e-mail please

05-Jul-07 07:43 AM

HI Mike,

Also see that as much cheaper.

Excellent link btw.

Regards
A

12-Jul-07 07:53 AM

WSS v3.0 can be used on the Internet when using Forms Based Authentication
(FBA) & SQLExpress 2005 at the expense of the 'Windows Server 2003 and 2
Users CALs (service account & search crawl account)'.  This is valid for an
unlimited number of users, but SQLExpress has built-in limitations; should
you exceed the SQLExpress limits you will now need to purchase a 'SQL Server
per processor licence'.  The FBA is important since it is SQL doing the
authentication, you cannot use Windows Authorization because that requires a
Server CAL per user.  I have verified this with Microsoft and it is legal
using WSS v3.0, you are very correct that MOSS gets expensive.

Hope that clarifies what's required.