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One CAL per domain user?
Hello there, I'd like to know if I need two separate User-CAL's, if I want to use one PC but with two different A/D accounts. The background is that my company wants to give every employee one a...
Hi,
I think it's better for your use case to purchase per device license instead, so you can have as many users as you want on the device
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/client-access-license
there is a Technet post similar to this which has an answer:
"you don't need purchase CAL for each user/computer adding to AD and you only need appropriate amount of CALs for your users or devices to use Active Directory legally."
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3f6e7a87-2f6f-4feb-8531-6df1026415c0/do-i-need-cal-for-each-of-the-usercomputer-objects-in-a-domain
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/default
I think it's better for your use case to purchase per device license instead, so you can have as many users as you want on the device
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/client-access-license
there is a Technet post similar to this which has an answer:
"you don't need purchase CAL for each user/computer adding to AD and you only need appropriate amount of CALs for your users or devices to use Active Directory legally."
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3f6e7a87-2f6f-4feb-8531-6df1026415c0/do-i-need-cal-for-each-of-the-usercomputer-objects-in-a-domain
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/default