Sigh. Once more the quagmire that is Microsoft licensing drags a solution to a stand-still while we seek clarification. And the (scary?) thing is that you can ask 5 different experts, and get 5 different answers. When you’re putting a solution in for a client, you need to be confident of conforming to all necessary licensing guidelines, and sometimes…well…they just seem to make that bit hard. In particular at the moment we’re structuring an SPLA based solution for a client to better meet their business model. Everything is well sorted except for one…tiny…thing…that could make or break the particular solution we’ve put together. Now of course we have Plan B in place, but we would of course prefer Plan A. I know it’s howling at the moon, but common MS, there must be an easier way.

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