Server Applications

Description:

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is an integrated suite of services that improves organizational effectiveness by providing control over electronic content, accelerating shared processes, and facilitating better-informed decisions and information sharing.

64-Bit Only: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition requires a 64-bit processor with at least four cores and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008.

SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition includes the following functionality groupings:

• Collaboration: End users can create content from their preferred web browser or from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word. Automated versioning and workflows, document check-out, and sophisticated access controls help teams work on shared documents with minimal confusion and misunderstanding.
• Enterprise Content Management: Organizations can manage their content through the entire content life cycle — from creation through editing, collaboration, and approval, to long-term retention or final expiration — on a single unified platform. SharePoint can also help implement and automate compliance with information management and data security policies.
• Enterprise Search: The search infrastructure combines federated search, relevance, refinement, and social cues to speed up search and help people find the information and contacts they need.
• Portals: Organizations can build and maintain multiple content portals on a single SharePoint installation, with each portal customized for a particular business activity or organizational stakeholder. For example, an organization could build an enterprise intranet portal for all employees, a divisional portal site for particular departments, one or more partner extranet sites, and a public-facing Internet website.
• Business Forms and Processes: The Enterprise edition provides many features for integrating and streamlining business processes. For example, SharePoint's Workflows feature can streamline common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the tasks involved with those processes.
• Business Intelligence: Business intelligence is a set of methodologies and technologies that takes information stored in enterprise systems, provides structure and context, and puts it into the hands of the people who need it to make informed decisions. With the Enterprise edition and the appropriate software or database connectors, organizations can make hidden data visible to decision makers and other employees.

The Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint Server have identical installation media. The product key entered in the setup process determines the features that are available for use.

This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses SharePoint Server Enterprise Edition must have two client access licenses (CALs), a Standard Edition CAL and an Enterprise Edition CAL.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description:

Lync 2010, the successor to Communicator 2007, is a communications client that works in conjunction with Lync Server or Office Communications Server. In one Lync Conversation window, users can talk to each other using instant messaging (IM), voice, or video and can switch back and forth between modes. In the Contact List window, each contact has a presence button, green for available, yellow for away, or red for busy. Lync also adds presence buttons to other Office applications like Outlook, and conversations can be started directly from those applications.

Each contact in the list has a call button that can be clicked to call the contact's default phone number. Contacts can be grouped, and users can start conversations with an entire group at once.

Incoming conversation requests can be redirected to another mode of communication, such as a mobile phone. They can also be declined. Other contacts can be added to a conversation by dragging their names from the Contact List window to the Conversation window.

Lync 2010 is also one of the applications included in the Office Professional Plus 2010 suite.

Other capabilities include the following:

• Clicking a contact's presence button displays up to 20 more items of information, such as phone numbers and custom notes. Users can choose how much of their contact information each contact can see. Five levels are available, from Personal to Blocked.
• Files or selections from files can be sent in instant messages with their formatting intact.
• Users can tag contacts to receive automatic notification when the contacts' presence information changes.
• Lync creates a special folder in Outlook called Conversation History to track and log information about conversations. This information can include notes taken in OneNote.

Acquiring the Installation Media and License Key: Installing this product requires installation media and a license key. Installation media will be shipped to you free of charge.

The license allows you to use the installation media to install the product on as many computers as you have received donations for. This quantity is specified in the donation email sent to your organization email address after your eligibility has been verified and your administrative fee has been received. A separate email will give you information about obtaining your license key.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description:

A SharePoint Server client access license (CAL) gives a user the right to access the services of SharePoint Server. This Enterprise Edition user CAL authorizes a user to use the Enterprise Edition functionality of SharePoint Server from any device (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home). An organization must acquire both a Standard Edition CAL and an Enterprise Edition CAL in order to use the Enterprise Edition.

Device CALs are also available. A device CAL authorizes one computer to access SharePoint Server, regardless of the number of users (for example, a shared workstation).

Note: This license does not require media, license keys, or setup codes.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage

Groove Server 2010 provides centralized management, data relay, and data integration services for Groove workspaces created with SharePoint Workspace 2010 or Groove 2007.

Groove Server is a set of two server software applications:

• Groove Server Manager provides a web-based interface for accessing all related management and administration activities, including directory integration, security policies and public key infrastructure (PKI) integration, user identity management, component management, data recovery, reporting, and auditing.
• Groove Server Relay provides data relay services to transmit data between Groove workspaces when they cannot connect directly. Groove Server Relay's store-and-forward service facilitates data transmission when recipient clients are offline or behind a firewall and when transmitting clients transmit a large amount of data or have a slow connection.

The 2010 version of Groove Server integrates SharePoint Workspace user management with Active Directory, automates SharePoint Workspace account configuration, distributes usage policies to SharePoint Workspace users, enhances support for global SharePoint Workspace communications, and supports secure SharePoint Workspace management. It does not include the Groove Data Bridge application that was included in Groove Server 2007.

SharePoint Workspace 2010 or Groove 2007 software is required to access Groove Server 2010.

This product includes a server license. No client licenses are required for Groove Server.

Acquiring the Installation Media: Installing this product requires installation media and a license key. Installation media will be shipped to you free of charge.

Description:

A SharePoint Server client access license (CAL) gives a user the right to access the services of SharePoint Server. This Enterprise Edition device CAL authorizes one computer to use the Enterprise Edition functionality of SharePoint Server, regardless of the number of users (for example, a shared workstation). An organization must acquire both a Standard Edition CAL and an Enterprise Edition CAL in order to use the Enterprise Edition.

User CALs are also available. A user CAL authorizes a user to access SharePoint Server from any device (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home).

Note: This license does not require media, license keys, or setup codes.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description: This standard user client access license (CAL)  supports the instant messaging, presence, and PC-to-PC audio and video communications capabilities of Lync Server 2010 or Office Communications Server 2007 R2 for one user from any device (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home).

Additional licenses are required for audio, video, and web conferencing, application sharing, and enterprise telephony capabilities.

• An enterprise CAL provides all but voice telephony features when used with Lync Server 2010; voice telephony features require a plus CAL. To enable all features, all three CALs (standard, enterprise, and plus) are needed
• An enterprise CAL provides all these capabilities when used with Office Communications Server 2007 R2. To enable all features, both standard and enterprise CALs are needed.

Device CALs and an external connector (EC) license are also available. A device CAL authorizes one computer to access Lync Server 2010 or Office Communications Server 2007 R2, regardless of the number of users (for example, on a shared workstation). The EC license allows any number of external users or devices to access a single installation of Lync Server 2010 or Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

License Only: This license does not require media, license keys, or setup codes.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description:

Microsoft Project Server 2010 enables medium-sized and large organizations to better manage projects and project portfolios, collaborate across the entire enterprise, and effectively analyze and report on both projects and programs. Project Server 2010 is accessed via its clients, Project Professional and Project Web Access.

Project Server 2010 is the successor to Project Server 2007, but it also integrates many of the features of Project Portfolio Server, which is no longer available. Project Server 2010's portfolio management features allow organizations to identify, select, manage, and deliver portfolios of projects, programs, and software applications (collectively known as investments) that align with their strategy.

A new demand management module captures all work in a centralized repository, allowing organizations to develop and deploy effective governance workflows in order to manage project investments throughout their life cycle and to drive accountability and control. When Project Server is used with its web client, Project Web Access, users have a simple Web interface to access a range of functions like timesheets, proposals, projects, programs, and activity plans.

Project Server 2010 also adds the Fluent user interface, which simplifies navigation by replacing menus and toolbars with a set of task-based tabs known as the Ribbon.

Project Server 2010 is built on SharePoint Server 2010 and is designed for use with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise and Project Professional 2010 as part of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution. The EPM solution is suited for organizations that need strong coordination and standardization between projects and project managers, centralized resource management, or higher-level reporting for projects and resources.

This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses Project Server must have a Project Server user or device client access license (CAL), whether the access is through Project or through Project Web Access, the Project Server web client.

64-Bit Only: Project Server 2010 requires 64-bit hardware and a 64-bit operating system.

Acquiring the Installation Media and License Key: Installing this product requires installation media and a license key. Installation media will be shipped to you free of charge.

The license allows you to use the installation media to install the product on as many computers as you have received donations for. This quantity is specified in the donation email sent to your organization email address after your eligibility has been verified and your administrative fee has been received. A separate email will give you information about obtaining your license key.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description: This plus device client access license (CAL) can be used only in conjunction with a standard Lync Server device CAL. It supports the enterprise telephony capabilities of Lync Server on one computer, regardless of the number of users (for example, on a shared workstation).

Audio, video, and web conferencing and application-sharing capabilities for Lync Server require a separate license, the enterprise CAL. To enable all features, all three CALs (standard, enterprise, and plus) are needed.

User CALs are also available. A user CAL allows one user to access Lync Server's enterprise telephony capabilities on any number of computers or other devices (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home).

License Only: This license does not require media, license keys, or setup codes.

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Description:

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is an integrated suite of services that improves organizational effectiveness by providing control over electronic content, accelerating shared processes, and facilitating better-informed decisions and information sharing.

64-Bit Only: SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Edition requires a 64-bit processor with at least four cores and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008.

SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Edition includes the following functionality groupings:

• Collaboration: End users can create content from their preferred web browser or from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word. Automated versioning and workflows, document check-out, and sophisticated access controls help teams work on shared documents with minimal confusion and misunderstanding.
• Enterprise Content Management: Organizations can manage their content through the entire content life cycle — from creation through editing, collaboration, and approval, to long-term retention or final expiration — on a single unified platform. SharePoint can also help implement and automate compliance with information management and data security policies.
• Enterprise Search: The search infrastructure combines federated search, relevance, refinement, and social cues to speed up search and help people find the information and contacts they need.
• Portals: Organizations can build and maintain multiple content portals on a single SharePoint installation, with each portal customized for a particular business activity or organizational stakeholder. For example, an organization could build an enterprise intranet portal for all employees, a divisional portal site for particular departments, one or more partner extranet sites, and a public-facing Internet website

This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses SharePoint Server must have a SharePoint Server user or device client access license (CAL).

Software Assurance: Under the Software Assurance program, you have the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of your coverage.

Decription:

Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system capable of handling a diverse set of roles in either a centralized or distributed fashion. A computer running

Windows Server 2003 can perform these roles and services:

• File and print server
• Web server and Web application service
• Mail server
• Terminal server
• Remote access and virtual private network (VPN) server
• Directory services, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration
• Protocol (DHCP) server, and Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
• Streaming media server

Microsoft Server 2003 provides a platform for applications that can be purchased separately, including Project Server, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, and Microsoft Operations Management Server.

The R2 release includes such features as enhanced control over access to local and remote resources; a scalable, security-enhanced Web platform; seamless interoperability with UNIX-based systems; and more efficient storage management.

32bit and 64bit versions:
The installation media for this product include two sets of CDs and can be used for either 32bit or 64bit systems.

English/Multilanguage Version:
The installation media for the English/Multilanguage version include CD-ROMs for the basic English-language installation and additional CD-ROMs that can be used to install one or more additional language interfaces. The additional CD-ROMs are called a MUI pack.

Enterprise and Standard editions:
The Standard Edition is appropriate for the everyday needs of organizations of all sizes, but especially small organizations and workgroups. The Enterprise Edition provides eight-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for high-performance servers; support for eight-node server clusters, and support for up to 64 GB of RAM.

Client Licenses:
In addition to this server license, a Windows Server 2003 Device or User Client Access License (CAL) is required for each user or device accessing or using the server software, with the exception of anonymous Internet users. An example of such an exception would be unidentified users browsing the organization's public Web site. Alternatively, an organization can use a Windows Server External Connector License for a large number of authenticated external Internet users. In addition, if the server is running Windows 2003 Terminal Services, a separate Terminal Services CAL is required for each user or device accessing the services. See the Microsoft Servers and Operating Systems category for server licenses.

Installing this product requires a licence key and installation media. Within 14 days of placing your order, instructions for obtaining the licence key will be sent to your organisation's registered e-mail address and free installation media will be delivered to your organisation's registered address.