SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Used by Employees

Providing users with access to the full set of SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities requires purchase of a variety of different licenses for servers as well as clients. Microsoft often uses the term “SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise” to refer to a system where all SharePoint Server functions—both the Standard Client Access License (CAL) features as well as the Enterprise CAL features—are enabled.

To provide increased scale, higher availability (fault tolerance), and better manageability, the SharePoint Server 2010—based system depicted in the illustration is implemented using multiple servers, each operating in a dedicated role. The Web servers (1) handle the display of the site; the application servers (2) run various services such as a usage and health data collection service, secure store service (for single sign-on authentication), Excel Services, and the Office Web App hosting service; and the crawl, index, and query servers (3) handle all search-related functions. Servers in all three roles run SharePoint Server 2010 code and must each be allocated a SharePoint Server 2010 server license, as well as be licensed for the underlying OS (Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter edition of Windows Server 2008/2008 R2).