Comment Licensing for Windows AD server (Score 1) 149
The OP mentioned that "we are primarily a Linux shop, there are a handful of Windows systems that will be on a Windows Active Directory domain".
Does every machine that authenticates to an AD server need a Windows client licence? Or every user? Does the AD server need an additional client or user licence?
I haven't bought client licences for years -- it was back in NT4 days -- but as I recall they were pricey and hard to get. And nobody was prepared to go on the record about how to calculate how many I needed. (Although several people said things that were vague and inconsistent and then stopped returning calls.) Maybe that has changed.