How is Collaboration Services licensed? (4259719)

How is Collaboration Services licensed?

Quest Collaboration Services (QCS) is licensed based on the count of published AD objects.

You can purchase a license to sync AD objects only, F/B (or Calendar) information only, or both. If the AD sync is done outside of the QCS product, then F/B license is all that is needed (in this scenario, ensure that QCS can make a match to the AD objects before F/B is sent).

There can be any mixture of AD and F/B counts. For example, consider a license with 500 AD and 200 F/B. In this case, you can sync 500 AD objects, whereas the F/B (or Calendar) information can only be synced for 200 objects.

Object Classes

Objects can be mail/mailbox-enabled and of one of the following classes:

- User
- Group
- Contact

License Count

When an object is published in a collection, one license is consumed.
When an object is removed from a collection, one license is returned to the pool of purchased licenses.

Total Number of Licenses

The total number of purchased licenses can be viewed in:

QCS Console | Collaboration Services | Version Information (right pane) | License Information

The total number of published objects for a particular site (HQ or Branch) can be viewed in:

QCS Console | Collaboration Services | Publication | Publisher Information (right pane) | Total

If the number of objects shown in 'Publisher Information | Total' seems incorrect objects may be published in multiple collections and being counted multple times when calculating the total.