Background:
We are a medium sized company with around 10 000 users and we have an "Enterprise Agreement" licensing model. In our EA we have a license for one (1) SharePoint Server. We donot have a MSDN subscription. We have one server running SharePoint 2010 in production.
A month ago we had a workshop where we wanted to set up a Proof of Concept and evaluate the new features of SharePoint 2013, so we brought in a certifed SharePoint consultant and used our SA-vouchers as payment(SharePoint Deployment Planing Services).
We downloaded SharePoint Server 2013 Trial (180 days) from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx. Since this was for evaluation/POC, Sharepoint was installed on SQL Express running on the same server. The POC
server is member of our production domain, purely for practical reasons. The server was notused in production. The webapplication were not published in DNS and I was the only one who had access to the server.
A week ago we had a license audit, basically they scanned all computers and servers in our domain. And they also scanned this server running Sharepoint 2013 trial, which is namedTRIAL2013.
Now my questions are:
- Will they consider that this server is used in production and require a license.
- Are we allowed install trial (180 days) software.
- Do we need an MSDN license if we want to evaluate software.
I realize that installing evaluation software in production isn't wise, but we currently dont have a separate testing environment, and since SharePoint 2013 requires 24 GB of RAM i couldnt install it on a standalone desktop computer.
I would appreciate you input on this.
