Automating Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

Manage Feature Packs and Site Subscriptions

In many hosted scenarios, there is a need to provide different licensing options to tenants. For example, Tenant A may require the full SharePoint 2010 Enterprise license and all the Features that go with it, whereas Tenant B may need only the core SharePoint 2010 Foundation Features. This ability to provide only the Features that are relevant to the tenant is a great addition to SharePoint 2010 because it not only accommodates traditionally hosted scenarios, it also solves a longstanding issue with large enterprises that wish to provide a blended licensing experience. In other words, it provides only the Feature for which a business unit is licensed, thus negating the need to purchase licenses that ...