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  • March 22, 2017 at 4:27 pm

    #1934422

    This kind of thing comes up frequently. You can't use Express or a web server to act as a 'user' so as to only buy one CAL. The Standard edition server is processing data (from Express) to 25 users, hence you need 25 CALs for it.

    Gail Shaw
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