MCMS Licensing ... My customers have some confusion...

7.12.2004 | 8:31 pm

If you are going to be running MCMS Standard Edition there are a couple of licensing issues that you should be aware of:

Single CPU Machine

• Only require 1 CPU license (obviously)

• MCMS Standard Edition can ONLY bind to 1 CPU.
• Only require 1 CPU licenses

MCMS Standard Edition Rules

• < 15 users other than subscribers
• 1 host header (ie. 1 domain)
• Although the SCA says it is not possible you can configure 1 host header.
• No clustering (ie. 2 front end MCMS servers backing onto 1 database)
• 1 CPU supported
• No site stager (ie. taking a static copy of the website) - Out of the box ASP Site Stager will not work but with ASP.NET but there are ways around it, see GotDotNet
• Cannot add AD User Groups to non subscriber roles (must add users directly)
• Cannot add AD User Groups to subscriber role without hotfix (see here)

MCMS Enterprise Edition Rules

• Unlimited users (subscribers or editors)
• Unlimited host headers
• Clustering Supported
• Unlimited CPU's supported (1 license per CPU)
• Site stager supported (ie. taking a static copy of the website) (not when using ASP.NET but there are ways around it, see GotDotNet)

More information is available at: www.microsoft.com/cmserver
 
I think this is all correct... If I am incorrect I'm sure an angry product manager will be emailing me.