Additive CAL
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- Unit
- Other
- Aliases
- Additive CAL; Additive Access License; Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services CAL; Windows Server 2025 Active Directory Rights Management Services CAL; Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 User CAL
- Definition
- Additive CAL means a CAL that must be used on conjunction with a base CAL. (Microsoft Product Terms — Glossary.) Windows Server Additive Access Licenses named in Product Terms: Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services CAL (also required for use of Windows Server to host a graphical user interface using the Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services functionality or other technology); Windows Server 2025 Active Directory Rights Management Services CAL; Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 User CAL (also required for any person for whom the software issues or manages identity information).
- Counting rules
- Use in conjunction with a Base Access License. Assign by user or device as the product offers (Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 User CAL is per user). RDS User CAL and User SL extended rights (Software Assurance): Customer may use its RDS User CALs and User SLs with Windows Server software running in OSEs dedicated to its internal use on either Microsoft Azure Services or the shared or dedicated servers of a License Mobility through Software Assurance Partner for which it has completed and submitted the License Mobility verification form; move not sooner than 90 days after it initiated use in the environment it is leaving.
- Floors / minimums
- One Additive CAL (or Additive External Connector License, where offered) in addition to the required Base Access License for each user or device that accesses the additional functionality.
- Applies to products
- Windows Server
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