Best Practice Report

Q&A: SharePoint's Licensing Complexities

Licensing SharePoint, And How Federation And Virtualization Play A Role

November 10th, 2008
Christopher Voce, null
Christopher Voce
With contributors:
Simon Yates , Alexander Crumb

Summary

Microsoft's SharePoint continues to spread like wildfire, making it difficult for IT to respond with efficient ways to deploy and manage it. SharePoint is a component in Microsoft's broader infrastructure and collaboration offerings and carries complex licensing requirements in many scenarios, which IT managers responsible for SharePoint deployments must fully understand. Broader virtualization and SQL consolidation efforts can play a role in SharePoint licensing decisions. To ensure the most economical approach for your organization, you should weigh not only who will be using SharePoint but how it will be deployed.

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