SharePoint 2013 Licensing - On Premises

SharePoint 2013 Licensing has 2 Models :

1)      Server + CAL

2)      Server Only

Depends on the type of environment we have to choose among the 2 options.

 Intranet :

In intranet scenario we have will to go for option 1 means we have to go for Server + CAL.
 
Server à depends on how many servers running in each farm, license will be calculated according to no of instances(servers) in farm. If no of servers are 4 in the SP Farm, need to buy 4 server license.

CALà this depends no of users who are accessing the SharePoint portals , 500 are users accessing SP portal then need to buy 500 CAL.

4 servers in farm and 500 users accessing the SP services based on this we have to go for option 1 ,means you have to buy server + CAL.

 Extranet:

People whose user accounts are not of AD, users belongs to third party LDAPs, and looking for access SP Site ,in this case no CALS are required.
Server license (Option 2) permits the external users without any additional CALs.

Internet:

Intranet users who wants to access the portals from internet , in this scenario also, need to choose OPTION 1 and no CALS are required.

Reference Link : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/learn-more/brief-sharepoint-server-2013.aspx

Search - File Shares as Content Source in SharePoint 2013 On Premises

Few things about File Share Content Source

1.Crawled files in file share system contain metadata that can be used by the search refiners in SharePoint

2.Can use SharePoint Search refiner to filer search results based on file type or author for the file shares which is supported by default.

3.Managed properties which are available for file shares contain Author,ContentType,DisplayAuthor,FileExtension,FileType,Title,IsContainer,ContentSource,Created and so on . You can use them for filtering file share content in search results or customizing your search result display template. For filtering file share content in search results based on the folder structure, you can use "Path" managed property.

 4.When end users search the document in the search site it will be displayed according to the permissions given on the files and folders , this happens automatically.

 5.Actually core content is stored on file server itself, only metadata associated with the indexed content will be stored in SharePoint. This metadata entirely different from actual metadata services.