You didn’t think once you bought an edition of Microsoft Server you could actually use it without further licensing, did you? Of course not! You have to pay for each person or each device (each client) that you want to allow access the server or use of some service the server provides. We might revisit these scenarios later if we get enough interest in them. If you have questions about any of these products or scenarios you are always welcome to contact us. We are also going to ignore running Windows Server as a web server which has special licensing requirements (just to keep you on your licensing toes). Since these are not likely to be found in most small to medium sized businesses these days we are not going to talk about them here. Products like SQL Server 2016, SharePoint and Exchange are licensed differently from Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016. Server Licensing Scenarios We AREN’T Covering Unlike Office or Windows 10 there are some more things that needed to be considered if you are buying a Microsoft server product, such as Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016: Since Microsoft changes the way they do licensing each time they release a new product this information only applies to these versions. At the time of the writing the only active Windows Server products on the market are the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 family of products. This post we will go into more detail specific to the Windows Server family. Microsoft also said the SCE offered the company's lowest Windows Azure pricing.In Part 1 we covered the basics of licensing and specifically how it relates to Microsoft. Separate CALs are however still needed for RDS, and this applies to third-party apps from Citrix, Erciom, GraphOn and others that directly or indirectly interact with the Windows Server graphical user interface, Microsoft said.Ī new Server and Cloud Enrollment ( SCE) has been introduced under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, providing a 15 per cent discount for new license and Software Assurance purchases and five per cent on renewals. These cost US$102 for a device CAL, and US$118 for a user CAL. The same CALs that are used for Windows Server 2012 can be used for R2 as well, Microsoft said.Īnother change introduced with WS2012R2 is that the Remote Desktop Service (RDS) CALs can be used on public clouds.
At sixteen virtual OSEs and beyond, it costs less to use Datacenter Edition licenses for dual-processor machines. Ultimately a dual-processor server running twelve virtual OSEs requires six Standard Edition licenses, which at US$4,806 would still be cheaper than that of a single Datacenter equivalent.
This means a dual-processor server with three virtual OSEs needs either a single Datacenter license, or two Standard Edition ones. A single license covers up to two physical processors in a server, Microsoft stated.
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