Sharepoint - SharePoint Licesnse How Microsoft calculate it?
- Each SharePoint Server must be licensed (with a Standard or Enterprise license).
- Each user must be licensed with a SharePoint User CAL. For Standard only features, they just need a SharePoint Standard User CAL. For Enterprise features, you must assign them a SharePoint Standard and Enterprise User CAL.
- You can use the key as many times as you want, but of course you must license each server the key is used with.
- The key does not expire.
- You can use the same key as many times as you need to.
- Keys are licensed to a specific organization. "Personal" use would likely fall out of scope of what the key is licensed for, unless you purchased your own copy of SharePoint Server.
- The key is not tracked by any means.
- There are no free keys for personal/development use -- instead, get an MSDN Subscription or provision the SharePoint Farm option on Azure (which you pay for the running costs of the VM, but not Windows or SharePoint).
- You cannot extend the trial of a SharePoint farm.