SharePoint 2010 Licensing

While planning and designing architecture for SharePoint 2010 site, Design team usually needs to etablish a Licensing Budget. It takes into account the SKUs and options necessary to fullfil business requirements to ensure these are realistic and within the budget. Use this tool to help guide through the process detemining what licenses are required to specific needs. For small companies or departmemts that want a low-cost, entry-level, or pilot solution SharePoint Foundation 2010 is the good fit. The only required license is the Liences for Microsoft Windows Server.

How to detect Installed SKU of SharePoint Server?
On your SharePoint server, open the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts

The key will match with one of the following known SKUs

Key	Product Name
BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E	SharePoint Foundation 2010
1328E89E-7EC8-4F7E-809E-7E945796E511	Search Server Express 2010
B2C0B444-3914-4ACB-A0B8-7CF50A8F7AA0	SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Trial
3FDFBCC8-B3E4-4482-91FA-122C6432805C	SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
88BED06D-8C6B-4E62-AB01-546D6005FE97	SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Trial
D5595F62-449B-4061-B0B2-0CBAD410BB51	SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887	Search Server 2010 Trial
08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B	Search Server 2010
84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD	Project Server 2010 Trial
ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2	Project Server 2010
926E4E17-087B-47D1-8BD7-91A394BC6196	Office Web Companions 2010