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Mike Schulman's avatar
Mike Schulman
Copper Contributor
Feb 28, 2017

SharePoint 2016 Enterprise CAL

Obviously a newbie question, so I'm hoping this is an easy one to answer.  I just took over a SharePoint 2016 migration (SP 2013 Std. to SP 2016 Ent.).  I understand how to get the SP Enterprise lice...
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Edmar Souza
Copper Contributor
Feb 28, 2017

Hi Mike!

 I believe this link should solve some doubt: 

https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-licensing-overview

 

"In SharePoint 2016, for extranet and Internet sites scenarios, no CALs are required for external users." 

 

 

  • Mike Schulman's avatar
    Mike Schulman
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 28, 2017
    Edmar Souza wrote:

    Hi Mike!

     I believe this link should solve some doubt: 

    https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-licensing-overview

     

    "In SharePoint 2016, for extranet and Internet sites scenarios, no CALs are required for external users." 

      

    Thanks, I actually have that link open on another monitor.  I know I need Standard and Enterprise CALs for all of my users (everyone is an internal user), my question is, what do I do with the CALs once I have them?  How do I install them?  Or am I being obtuse and they're just a piece of paper and installing the Enterprise Server key takes care of everything?

     

    • Tiago Costa's avatar
      Tiago Costa
      MVP
      Feb 28, 2017

      It's just "a piece of paper". No need to install it.

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