Licence

[phil middleton]

Can you get MS Project licences that allow a certain amount of users
to use project (eg 5) but have installed on all network PC's?

 

[Jim Aksel]

Licensing is per seat. Microsoft Project Server will accept connections from
licensed copies of the desktop (client) version. So it is 1 for 1. Can't
have an "unlicensed" copy on the client. Sorry.

For additional details, read your license agreement... I have no authority
to speak for Microsoft as I am not one of their employees.

Here is from the Microsoft Website, you need on CAL for each seat accessing
the server, it is not "concurrent user." Each MS Project Prof install
contains one CAL and that is the only way to access Server.

A Project Server Client Access License (CAL) gives a user the right to
access the services of Project Server. Any application that accesses the
services of Project Server requires a CAL, including Project Professional
(this SKU already includes a CAL), Project Web Access, SharePoint sites with
Web Parts that display project information, Microsoft Office Outlook
integration with the COM add-in, and third-party applications such as those
that would otherwise multiplex users.
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[Rob Schneider]

My hunch is that you would be best served if you contact Microsoft or
the company from whom you purchase your software for these networked
PC's and ask them, along with carefully reading the information on
Microsoft's web site.

I'm assuming that you are talking about Project without Project Server.
Then, you probably need Project Standard which for 5 copies is not
that expensive. You cany purchase those copies easily from lots of
vendors as boxed products.

The normal license agreement is per installed copy but maybe there are
other licenses available. I don't know. My hunch is that all
Microsoft's consumer software, e.g. Office, is also licensed this way
(per installed copy)...but the price paid per copy is probably based on
numbers of copies or the size of the "enterprise".


--rms