As Microsoft promised late last year, the company has ported some of its volume-activation technology to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has made available for download 32- and 64-bit versions of its ...

Microsoft System Center licensing can be quite complex, especially as you add multiple server products to the mix. Scott Lowe helps you make sense of the convoluted System Center licensing. If your IT ...

OK I think I have this figured out.... We currently have a network with 75 users on a 2008 R2 Domain Controller with nearly a 100 CALS (we lost a few folks in the recession). I just purchased a few ...

The folks over at Desaware have revised their Licensing System software, which I looked at about a year ago. The goal of this software is simple: to make it harder for other people to steal your hard ...

Scenario: We have a VMWare Cluster licensed under vSphere Enterprise (5.5). When we put the Environment in, we bought Server Datacenter licenses so that we could spin up unlimited VM's within the ...

On the heals of recent QuickLicense 7, Windows 8.1 and OS X Mavericks upgrades, Excel Software (www.excelsoftware.com) has updated a suite of protection and licensing tools. QuickLicense Server 1.1 ...

Microsoft's Windows Server 2016 isn't due out until the second half of 2016, but Microsoft execs are starting to communicate some of the licensing and pricing changes coming to its next server ...

Microsoft last week announced it will switch the licensing for next year’s Windows Server 2016 to a per-processor-core basis, a move analysts said is at least partly a grab for more revenue.