We are considering expanding our user provisioning to cover a large portion of the workforce that does not currently exist in AD. Our understanding is that any named user in AD requires a User CAL. Is that correct even if the employee will not be authenticating or have an email address assigned to them?
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This question will likely get closed due to it being a duplicate, but maybe I can help you before that.
First, make sure you fact check anything told to you here with your Microsoft licensing rep.
any named user in AD requires a User CAL
This isn't entirely accurate. You will need to purchase one CAL per user (living human being) that will be accessing the server(s) on your network. You will also need to consider which operating systems you already employ in your environment. You need CALs specific to the operating system(s) running on your server(s) as well; meaning, if you have Server 2008 R2, your User CALs will need to be for that version, so make sure you haven't mixed and matched and messed things up.
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