@scottalanmiller said in Windows Desktop Licensing: Cannot be used as a server:
Examples of other common violations:
- Spiceworks or any web application cannot be used from a desktop
- QuickBooks cannot be served from a desktop
- Web pages
More or less anything that you’d want to do. It all requires a server. That’s the entire point of the cheap workstation licenses - you get them dirt cheap compared to a server license but can’t do anything you’d want a server for.
All of the things above are fine as long as you don’t access them from another machine. Which is why they are allowed to be installed.
The EULA does give an exception for Internet information services. Since it's not specifically saying IIS, and any other definition for Internet information services is google-washed, do I assume the definition is the same as the services that IIS is capable of?