YeOldeStonecat
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It's definitely one of the vague ones. Commercial Hosting...I look at it the same as Mark...to host to the public to make revenue from some service. Well.yeah, for that, you should have MS-PL licensing.
But for using a desktop as a quasi server in a workgroup...to host a service for others to connect to, that's always been allowed. Heck even in classes done by Microsoft that I've done to, the Microsoft instructor has had a "Pro" version of Windows on their laptop or desktop for many of them...showing server-ish things.
The desktop Pro OS used to have a max SMB connection limit of 10...raised to 20 when Win7 came out.
LOB software people often really push for a server and not support a desktop for the purpose of reliability and performance. Servers by default can dedicate more resources to background processes..that's what they're designed for. Desktop OS's are tuned to dedicated resources to foreground applications. Yes there is that toggle switch you can flip on a desktop if you go to system props, advanced, advanced, etc...you can flip the radio button switch tween programs or background services..and make a desktop run a "little bit" more like a server. But there are tons of other things that simply run better at "serving" on a server that a desktop cannot do. Also for a server based network...browsing and name resolution and drive mapping and all that stuff just runs better and more reliably. Another reason LOB support really wants to see a proper server setup starting with a server. They want less support calls!
But for using a desktop as a quasi server in a workgroup...to host a service for others to connect to, that's always been allowed. Heck even in classes done by Microsoft that I've done to, the Microsoft instructor has had a "Pro" version of Windows on their laptop or desktop for many of them...showing server-ish things.
The desktop Pro OS used to have a max SMB connection limit of 10...raised to 20 when Win7 came out.
LOB software people often really push for a server and not support a desktop for the purpose of reliability and performance. Servers by default can dedicate more resources to background processes..that's what they're designed for. Desktop OS's are tuned to dedicated resources to foreground applications. Yes there is that toggle switch you can flip on a desktop if you go to system props, advanced, advanced, etc...you can flip the radio button switch tween programs or background services..and make a desktop run a "little bit" more like a server. But there are tons of other things that simply run better at "serving" on a server that a desktop cannot do. Also for a server based network...browsing and name resolution and drive mapping and all that stuff just runs better and more reliably. Another reason LOB support really wants to see a proper server setup starting with a server. They want less support calls!
