I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George
The way Server licensing works ... the license gives you two VMs on the physical hardware in addition to the physical server license for the standard edition. If you are lucky enough to get the datacenter edition, you get unlimited VMs on the same licensed server. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 16:37 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
The way Server licensing works ... the license gives you two VMs on the physical hardware in addition to the physical server license for the standard edition. If you are lucky enough to get the datacenter edition, you get unlimited VMs on the same licensed server. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 16:37 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, Yes that is perfectly legal but be careful with dependencies in terms of the DC and Exchange being hosted on the same system. What I am talking about here is VM startup order etc. Has anyone ran a DC on the bear metal then used Hyper-V to run other VMs on top of that? I never did anything else with a DC other than DC activities. . I would also look at Office365 as it is really a good option now instead of running your own mail server. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 19 February 2018 21:37 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, Yes that is perfectly legal but be careful with dependencies in terms of the DC and Exchange being hosted on the same system. What I am talking about here is VM startup order etc. Has anyone ran a DC on the bear metal then used Hyper-V to run other VMs on top of that? I never did anything else with a DC other than DC activities. . I would also look at Office365 as it is really a good option now instead of running your own mail server. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 19 February 2018 21:37 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Admittedly interpreting MS licensing is more an art than a science, but. Places I've worked in the past have had a very conservative interpretation of how that license is supposed to work, in that you are allowed one virtual copy of Windows server, so long as the physical host's copy of Windows Server 2016 is doing absolutely nothing but running the Hyper-V role to run the VM and is running no other services. As I said that's one interpretation, and your specific license may work differently but wanted to warn you of that. That said I'd second what Andrew said, for an Exchange environment with two or three users, O365 would be a no brainer unless you had a specific situation (3RD party software that needed to talk to a local Exchange server, specific regulatory requirements etc.) to stay local. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> on behalf of Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Monday, February 19, 2018 at 4:05 PM To: "george@techno-vision.co.uk" <george@techno-vision.co.uk>, Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server Hi, Yes that is perfectly legal but be careful with dependencies in terms of the DC and Exchange being hosted on the same system. What I am talking about here is VM startup order etc. Has anyone ran a DC on the bear metal then used Hyper-V to run other VMs on top of that? I never did anything else with a DC other than DC activities. . I would also look at Office365 as it is really a good option now instead of running your own mail server. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 19 February 2018 21:37 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Exchange on Virtual Server I wonder if some kind soul can advise here please? With Microsoft Action Pack, you only get one Server 2016 Standard license, which we have installed as a Domain Controller. Action Pack also comes with Exchange Server 2016. You are advised against running Exchange 2016 on a DC, but purchasing a second server with Server 2016 for 2-3 users is overkill and expensive. It has been suggested that we install a Virtual Server on the DC to run Exchange, but the question we are having difficulty getting an answer to, is whether or not it is both possible and legal to use the same Server License on the same hardware? Has anyone got a definitive answer? George _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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