Question About MAK Windows Activation
Hello everyone. The question is the following. We have a customer with a subscription for Windows Server 2025 Standard - 8 Core License Pack 1 Year quantity 3 (from partner portal). From the servers that the key have been assign i see that the key is on MAK channel. The question is, if i remove the key with dism i will get back a activation? I mean at this time we have 0 activation remaining, if i remove the key the remaining activation number will increase to 1 from 0? I cant found a solid answer on the web so please help. Thanks. Best Regards SG
Reduce Window Server CAL licenses
Hi, I am building a new production environtment, where client uses Microsoft Dynamics Navision 2016 and I have few question regarding the user/device CALs. I have installed new VM where Windows Server 2022 Datacenter is installed and I installed SQL Server 2019 Standard and applied per core (2x2 vCore) license to it. I know that for SQL Server no CALs are required, since it is Per Core licensed. I installed another VM where Windows Server 2022 Standard is installed and where NAV2016 server is installed. Windows Server is lincesed, but I am not sure, if I need to purchase also user and device CALs? I believe I need user and device CALs, too, and therefore I'd like to reduce the cost of CALs by: 1. creating an AD Security Group X and add all the users who are connecting to the NAV service tier as members into that AD Security Group (20x employees and 5x service accounts for 3rd party apps). Can I purchase exactly 1 user CAL license, or do I need to purchase 25 user CALs? 2. creating an AD Security Group Z and add all the devices that are connecting to the NAV service tier via WS calls (3x barcode scanners). Can I purchase exactly 1 device CAL license, or do I need to purchase 3 user CALs? Thanks Damjan