Developer / Deployment Licensing

Topic Last Modified: 2008-08-06

This topic provides information about how the different technologies compare with regard to Developer / Deployment Licensing.

Technology	What product licenses are needed to develop and deploy applications that use the technology?
Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI)	No special licensing is required for developing by using ADSI. The libraries and COM objects are installed with Microsoft Windows.
Collaboration Data Objects for Windows 2000 (CDOSYS)	No special licenses are needed for using CDOSYS. Depending on your configuration, your systems may require access to an additional SMTP/NNTP server to transport messages to their destination.
CDOSYS SMTP/NNTP Event Sinks	No special licenses are needed for using CDOSYS. Depending on your configuration, your systems may require access to an additional SMTP/NNTP server to transport messages to their destination.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange 2000 Server (CDOEX)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your CDOEX applications are developed and deployed.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Management (CDOEXM)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your CDOEX applications are developed and deployed.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Workflow (CDOWF)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your CDOEX applications are developed and deployed.
Exchange OLE DB Provider (ExOLEDB)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your ExOLEDB applications are developed and deployed.
Exchange Store Event Sinks	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your Exchange store events applications are developed and deployed.
Exchange Web Forms	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your Exchange Web forms are developed and deployed.
Exchange Web Services	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the computers on which your Exchange Web Services applications are developed and deployed.
HTTP/Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange servers that store the data accessed by your WebDAV applications.
WebDAV Notifications	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange servers that store the data accessed by your WebDAV applications.
Incremental Change Synchronization (ICS)	No special licensing is required for developing by using MAPI. Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription and other appropriate licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the servers to be synchronized by your ICS applications.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)	No special licensing is required for developing applications that use LDAP.
Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)	No special licensing is required for developing by using MAPI.
Outlook Object Model (OOM)	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for Microsoft Outlook and OOM to be used in your applications.
Outlook Web Access	Outlook Web Access customization and component reuse is not supported by Microsoft.
Exchange Rules	No special licenses are required to deploy an application that uses WMI to access Exchange. Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange servers on which your application defines rules.
SMTP Event Sinks	No special licenses are needed for using SMTP event sinks. Depending on your configuration, your systems may require access to additional SMTP, NNTP, or Exchange servers to transport messages to their destination.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers for Exchange	No special licenses are required to deploy an application that uses WMI to access Exchange. Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange servers that store the data accessed by your WMI-based applications.
Exchange Backup and Restore API	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange Server 2003 servers that store the data backed up and restored by custom applications that use the Exchange Backup and Restore API.
Exchange writer for the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service	Refer to your Exchange and MSDN subscription licensing agreements to determine whether additional licenses are required for the Exchange Server 2003 servers that store the data backed up and restored by custom applications that use VSS.