Licensing Team Foundation
A question that often comes up with our customers that are adopting Team System is "who needs a CAL?" This has been a confusing topic for some time, as it appears the messaging has changed as the product has gone through it's lifecycle. The current licensing whitepaper suggests that anyone that is pulling data from the Team Foundation Server requires a CAL. Many customers have been assuming that reporting against the database would not require a CAL. I have been told that the latest guidance will be updated to reflect the following:
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Running reports that are on the project portal will NOT require a CAL.
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Creating reports will require a CAL
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Running reports from another, custom website, will require a device CAL for that web server
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Anyone editing data will require a CAL