We are considering expanding our user provisioning to cover a large portion of the workforce that does not currently exist in AD.  Our understanding is that any named user in AD requires a User CAL.  Is that correct even if the employee will not be authenticating or have an email address assigned to them?
This is a  about Licensing.    Questions on licensing are off-topic on Server Fault.  If your question has been closed as a duplicate of this question, then this is because we want to help you understand why licence questions are off topic rather than just telling you "it just is". In all likelihood, this question will not address your question directly, it was not meant to.    I have a question regarding software licensing. Can the Server Fault community please help with the following:   How many licenses do I need? Is this licensing configuration valid? What CALs do I need to be properly licensed? Can I run this product in a virtual environment? Can I downgrade this product to an earlier version? Am I entitled to feature X with license Y?
Restricted logins with automatic full permission in databases My scenario: I have some groups with full - and inappropriate - access to all Sql Server instances. I want to change that.  My Plan: Give full and automatic access to all databases (it is customer databases and this groups must be allowed to change any property if necessary).  Restrict permissions on Instance Level, because this groups should not be allowed to do any unexpected change on instance properties.  I don't want to create a user in databases, because our external customer could drop the user ( they have db_owner permission )  Someone have any idea? Tks Need help identifying the fantasy book about a portal to a fantasy land in the basement of a house I can't remember any names of characters or locations where the story took place but I do remember the basic plot of this early 90's novel; a human man inherits his father's house. In the basement there is a doorway to a fantastic land where adventure ensues. He fights elves and wins their deadly elf swords which he buries under concrete at the end of the novel (because if you don't get rid of them they will come back and get you).  At the end of the novel he must remake the world in his own imagination, turning the tough Elf King into a cobbler and making Jesse Jackson President. I have been looking high and low and have drawn a blank.  Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! I recall from complex analysis a while ago that the series $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{z^{n!}}{n}$$ has radius of convergence 1, diverges on roots of unity, and converges elsewhere on the circle. It's simple enough to see that it has to diverge on roots of unity: consider $z$ such that $z^k = 1$ for some $k \in \mathbb{N}.$ Plug this into the series and you see that past the $k$'th term, $z^{n!} = (z^k)^m = 1$ for some $m \in \mathbb{N}$; hence, the series becomes harmonic and must diverge.  But I don't recall how to show that the series converges for other values on the circle. If this is simple I'd like just a hint, if it is involved I would prefer a sparse outline of the proof. Thank you! Should Suggested Edits change the technical content of a post? I have noticed a significant number of suggested edits that attempt to fix code, or change the original meaning of someone else's post.    Is this really a good idea?    I've been on StackOverflow awhile, and among the editors who have sufficient reputation to edit without approval, I've never seen anyone modify the technical content or meaning of someone else's post.   I would consider obvious syntax and spelling errors OK to change, but I have seen many suggested edits that change the meaning of the code that was posted, or add things to the code that have nothing to do with the original question. A good example of this would be adding parameters to a SQL command, when the question was not asking about SQL injection. Get the real width and height of an image with JavaScript? (in Safari/Chrome) When performing apt-get update, I get the following error:   root@ADS3-Debian6:/home/aluno# apt-get update Atingido http://sft.if.usp.br squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://sft.if.usp.br/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Ign http://sft.if.usp.br/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-pt Ign http://sft.if.usp.br/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-pt_BR   (...)  Obter:10 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free i386 Packages [14 B] Baixados 612 kB em 4s (125 kB/s)                     Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 8B48AD6246925553 What is the difference between 'can', 'could', 'may' and 'might'? I came across this proof while looking for hints on my homework, and I think it's only gotten me more confused. This is from .  Lemma 5.4 If $(H,h)$ is a homogeneous Riemannian manifold, then $(H,h)$ is complete. Proof. By the Hopf-Rinow Theorem, it suffices to show that $(H,h)$ is geodesically complete. Thus suppose that $c:[a,1) \rightarrow H$ is a unit speed geodesic which is not extendible to $t=1$. Choosing any $p \in H$, we may find a constant $\alpha &gt; 0$ such that any unit speed geodesic starting at $p$ has length $\ell \geq \alpha$. Set $\delta = \min\{\alpha/2, (1-a)/2\} &gt; 0$. Since isometries preserve geodesics, it follows from the homogeneity of $(H,h)$ that any unit speed geodesic starting at $c(1-\delta)$ may be extended to a geodesic of length $\ell \geq 2 \delta$. In particular, $c$ may be extended to a geodesic $c:[a, 1+\delta) \rightarrow H$, in contradiction to the inextendibility of $c$ to $t=1$.  How exactly does it &quot;follow from homogeneity&quot; that we are able to extend unit speed geodesics? Isn't that what we're trying to show in the lemma? And how does considering geodesics based at $c(1-\delta)$ lead us to extending $c$ to $c:[a,1+\delta) \rightarrow H$? I need some help importing MrSID Raster files in QGIS. I am running 2.6.0 on Linux Mint 17. After an internet search I have found a couple of resources that are perhaps outdated. The most promising is found here :    However when I attempted to follow the instructions my terminal and I could not find the file "libgdal-mrsid-src" on either the stable or unstable Ubuntu GIS repos. Has anyone had success or could lead me in the right direction? Prove that negative absolute temperatures are actually hotter than positive absolute temperatures Could someone provide me with a mathematical proof of why, a system with an absolute  (such that of a spin system) is  than any system with a positive temperature (in the sense that if a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative- to the positive-temperature system). Applications Don't Show Up in Spotlight Spotlight has stopped showing any results for my Applications. I've tried reindexing and removing the index so it rebuilds it. No change. I've tried adding Applications to the Privacy tab and removing it, no change.  I tried repairing disk permissions and redoing the above, no change. I've tried removing everything from the index except Applications and then I just get nothing for any search at all (except dictionary entries).  I tried adding a symlink in my homedir to Applications and reindexing, but no change.  Any ideas on what to do?  I'm running Snow Leopard.  This is driving me crazy!  Update: I've noticed that when I start a reindex with sudo mdutil -E / and then immediately do a Spotlight search for an app that the app shows up temporarily until Spotlight gets disabled due to active indexing.  After the indexing is done, the app entries go away. Is there a point of beating Vault of Glass raid on Hard after finishing on Normal? Does a log transform always bring a distribution closer to normal? I have a highly right skewed data set with a large range of values (from 1 ~ 10^6) (can't share the actual data for work related reasons).   When I plot the log of the data instead, the distribution looks a lot more like a normal distribution.   Have I stumbled on a meaningful insight in the data set, or is just a general property of the log transform that it brings the distribution closer to normal? Enlarge a partition without losing data with Windows 7 diskmgmt? I have a 320GB hard drive currently partitioned as below:     A long time ago, a computer expert formatted my hard drive like this because I wanted to install Ubuntu. I'm now ready to do this, but I'll never need so much free space (103.09GB). I want to enlarge the D:\ volume because it already has lots of data on it.  I know that when I open diskmgmt.msc, I could possibly enlarge the D:\ volume using some free space from the unformatted 103.09GB volume, because the program offers me the option to enlarge. However I'm afraid that I might lose data doing this.  Is it possible to enlarge the partition with this Windows 7 tool or am I better using GParted via "Try Ubuntu" on my Live CD? Would either of them cause data loss in this scenario? Is color undefined I want to check whether a color has been previously defined, consider the below code which doesn't execute.  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{xcolor} \newcommand{\colorprovide}[2]{\ifx\undefined{#1}\colorlet{#1}{#2}\fi}  \begin{document}     %Initial Definition     \colorprovide{mycolor}{red}     \textcolor{mycolor}{Test 1}      %Will overwrite     \colorlet{mycolor}{green}     \textcolor{mycolor}{Test 2}      %Should NOT overwrite as it exists     \colorprovide{mycolor}{red}     \textcolor{mycolor}{Test 3} \end{document}   In other words and analogous to \providecommand{...} not renewing an existing command if it exists, I need a macro which will will NOT redefine a color if the color has already been defined.  The above code throws an error as the logical checking part \ifx\undefined... is incorrect. Looking for a scifi novel with advanced pheromone technology $\left|x_{n+1} - x_n\right| < C\left|x_n - x_{n-1}\right|$ prove this is Cauchy How does the Ready action work? So from reading the Player's Handbook, it seems that the Ready action is taken instead of any other action as it is an action in its own right. However, can you move on the same turn that you ready an action? For instance, (taking the example from the Player's Handbook):     If the cultist steps on the trapdoor, I’ll pull the lever that opens it   Presumably, when you ready this action, you would want to move near to the lever so you can pull it when the time is right. Likewise, with readying a spell, you would obviously want to move away from combat so you could concentrate on the spell.  Secondly, when the trigger goes off do you have to wait for your turn, or do you in effect get a bonus turn? For instance, the cultist starts running towards you, but on his way he steps on the trap door - so you immediately pull the lever, even though it wasn't your turn. I assume you then act as normal when your actual turn comes around? What's the meaning "them" here? Footnotes in tables?