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IT upgrade reveals unexpected Microsoft licensing costs; county to seek exact quotes
Summary
IT director Dustin Parks briefed commissioners on a planned server migration; Broadcom and Microsoft licensing changes mean higher-than-anticipated costs for virtualization and Windows Server licensing. Commissioners asked for precise proposals before authorizing additional spending.
Dustin Parks, director of IT and GIS, told the Dickinson County Commission that a planned server refresh and migration has run into licensing complications that could increase project costs.
Parks said the county intends to migrate roughly 55 virtual machines onto new physical hosts and that Lenovo provided a migration and hardware quote. But recent changes at the virtualization and operating-system providers…
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