SharePoint User Group UK

Hi guys,

In the interest of honing my company's MOSS WCM skills I'm contemplating redoing our DNN site in MOSS. We are a Gold Partner and would have thought Microsoft might give us a freebie license allowing us to host our own site on MOSS - not having to purchase the extortionate MOSSFIS. Their MSDN Subscriber licenses normally carry a "For running your business on" disclaimer, so I'm hoping for something along those lines. Is there anything like this in place or is this basically a no-go?

Thanks,

James.

Hmmm... I'm rather sure that the MSDN licenses specifically say that they are ok for User Acceptance and Development testing only and prohibit business use.

The Empower program has SharePoint Server 2007 as one of the apps you can use in a live business scenario but it only comes with 5 cals and no internet license.

Can't you do what you need for your public site with WSS to keep the costs to just below the average cost of a space shuttle? :o)

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Hi there, I specifically want to use MOSS to learn more about the WCM features. I guess it's a no-go though.

Regarding MSDN Subscription, I should have been clearer. If you achieve certain Competencies you get extra licences which carry the following instructions:

"If you are a Certified or Gold Certified Partner, you can use these software licences to run your business and for internal employee training. These licences must not be resold and are not for personal use or customer training. Licences are provided for the latest released versions of Microsoft software only."

With the Information Worker Solutions competency, as a Gold Partner, we get 25 MOSS Enterprise CALs (amongst other things). Indeed there is no mention of Internet licences, I think I'm just wishful thinking.

I just think it would be logical for Microsoft to allow this. Obviously I can do it on a dev server but I'm not sure I'd ever finish it ;o)

Here's the wording from the MSND Premium page:

Licenses for General Business Use

In addition to Developer tools and licenses limited to Development & Test, MSDN subscribers may also install and use one copy of Microsoft Office for any purpose. This benefit extends to the full range of desktop Office System products (with the exception of Project Professional).

So just the desktop ones I'm afraid.