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Details of licensing SharePoint Hosting in SPLA - Octopus Cloud

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In the case of Microsoft SPLA, SharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise licenses are provided under the Subscriber Access License, which means each end customer’s internal users would need a license. Service Providers will use the software to provide internal users access to content and applications. Therefore, the use of SharePoint Server software that is limited to internal users must be licensed under SharePoint Server SALs. Remember that SharePoint needs Windows and SQL, which means if you create an SPLA SharePoint license report , then you will also have to report Windows licenses covering the Operating System. In contrast and in order to provide SharePoint Server as a Website or Hosted, the licensing scheme would shift from SAL to Processor License. Customers may use the software to provide information to External Users. The SPLA reporting for hosters includes all information. There are two ways of licensing SharePoint Hosting in SPLA: The first scenario is : SharePoint H

What do you need to know about the Microsoft assessment and planning toolkit? - Octopus Cloud

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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit helps IT, administrators, to determine whether or not a particular software application, user's device or Windows infrastructure is adequately prepared to migrate to a new cloud environment, operating system, or server version. An IT professional can run Microsoft MAP Toolkit on one Microsoft computing device and inventory the entire Windows network. Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is made up of four main components: MAPSetup.exe, readme_en.htm file, MAP_Sample_Documents.zip, and MAP_Training_Kit.zip. Assessment and Planning Toolkit features MAP Toolkit does not need an agent. It automatically inventories the software, users, devices, and infrastructure in Windows and also produces a readiness report and proposal for executives with hardware and software information. The readiness report can also include information on the applications users work with and if those applications are compatible with the desktop or server op