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Silver Contributor

Feb 08, 2017

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Licensing

I have several clients who have purchased thousands of EM+S licenses, but they did not purchase a license for everyon of their employees i.e., they did not purchase licenses for employees that seldom...

Ophir Polotsky
Mar 08, 2017
ECALs (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/learn-more/brief-cal-suites.aspx) are licsense part of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/enterprise.aspxand ATA is included on those as well.

Ophir Polotsky

Former Employee

Mar 08, 2017

Hi Dean,

As mentioned by Peter, the ATA product does not have flexability with regards to number of licensed seats. The licensing requirment is to have a valid license for each human user in the active-directory domain that ATA is monitoring/protecting. If the organization have seperate domain for subset of the users, they can deploy ATA to only monitor those subset domains, however, from security point of view, this is not recommended as the recommended way is to deploy ATA on all domains in the forest.

There is an option to purchase standalone licsense for the delta of the users that does not have EMS and/or ECAL licsense.

Hope this answer your question,

Ophir.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Mar 08, 2017

Thanks for confirming my understanding and fear. I'm familiar with the EMS licensing approach, what do you mean by an ECAL license?

Ophir Polotsky
Former Employee
Mar 08, 2017
ECALs (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/learn-more/brief-cal-suites.aspx) are licsense part of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/enterprise.aspxand ATA is included on those as well.