General Licensing Question

I know the obvious answer is 'talk to SAP representative' and we are trying to line this up, but I thought I would ask the forum for real life examples. We run IDM using HCM as the source of truth and provision to many other SAP systems (both in productive and non productive instances). My understanding is this licensing is included as part of our SAP Netweaver licensing.
Now we want to look at provisioning to AD, Exchange and possible unix/linux systems. HCM will still be the source of truth so I am not looking for provisioning lots of non sap users into AD.
What is the licensing structure for non sap systems ? If I just use the AD create/change user job does that require a license ? Are there levels of license based on the number of users or number of non SAP systems to provision to ?
Just trying to get the facts straight in my head *before* the sales guys turn up !
thanks

Spoke with SAP. Basic rules are ;
If you use IDM to manage users in any non sap area such as AD or Unix, you need to buy the extra license (which is a per named user type license).
Any provisioning to SAP systems does not require any license cost since it is included as part of the original IDM package.
Regardless of the method you use to talk to these non-sap systems (eg Global provisioning framework task versus exporting an ASCII text file and using external tools to provision), you still require the license.
Licensing only applied to production systems. I can manage dev/test users on non-sap systems without any licensing issues .
Cost per user was discussed, and lets just say that for the recommended cost per user and the number of users we have, I can employ a person just to sit there and manually do the provisioning. But thats not quite as automated and immediate !
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As has been stated many times in this forum, it is best to talk to a trained Microsoft licensing specialist about licensing questions. Remember that a license is a legal contract between you and Microsoft, and using a forum for legal advice is a tad
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