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Untitled.png' alt='Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' title='Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' />Hi, Can i confirm that you mean to say that if i purchase Server 2008 R2 Enterprise now less than 90 days before Server 2012 is out then i can license myself for. The Update Rollup 3 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now available for download from Windows Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update. Sublime 2 Crack Windows. News View All Win Development Resources The new VB. Web services and SOA implementations in the. NET Framework OData provides patterns for HTTP, JSON, data access. Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' title='Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' />With Microsoft due to end support for Windows Server 2003 in July 2015, we look at best practice for migration. New, Simpler, Better Value Licensing Announced For WS2. Some SBS Changes. Note I saw the announcement when it first came out and have been waiting digesting. More information came out since then so I thought a single post would be best. Make sure you follow this post by reading my post on licensing for virtualisation of Windows Server 2. I will not be answering any further questions on this post. Please ask your reseller, distributor, or LAR your scenario specific questions thats why you pay them. In case you dont know, I happen to work for a distributor of Microsoft licensing. My job is to work with our sales people, supporting Microsoft partners who resell product to end customers. My focus is on System Center and that brings in Hyper V and Forefront, but anything that is anyway technical tends to find its way to my desk. And you know what Ive been amazed at the complexity that is involved. Some questions are part licensinglegal and part technical. And these issues confuse the hell out of people. And trust me Ive let well known executives in Microsoft know what I thought of the complexity. The recent changes to System Center 2. To use a Henry Ford analogy, System Center SMLs come in 2 sizes and in black SML Standard 2 CPUs in the physical server, all of System Center, licensing 2 physical CPUs in the server 2 VMs running Windows Server on the licensed host. SML Datacenter 2 CPUs in the physical server, all of System Center, licensing 2 physical CPUs in the server unlimited VMs running Windows Server on the licensed host. There is nothing to restrict you from creating hundreds of VMs on Win. Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' title='Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf' />Serv Std. The VOSE rights restrict your rights to install Windows Server. Make sure you follow this post by reading my post on licensing for virtualisation of Windows Server 2. Windows Server 2. R2 SKUs. Currently on the Windows Server front its more like 2. General Motors than early Ford. We have the following SKUs in Windows Server Windows Server 2. R2 Datacenter. Windows Server 2. R2 Enterprise. Windows Server 2. R2 Standard. Windows Web Server 2. Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf Books' title='Introducing Windows Server 2003 Pdf Books' />R2. Windows HPC Server 2. R2 Suite. Windows Server 2. R2 HPS Edition. Microsoft HPC Pack 2. R2 Enterprise. Windows Server 2. R2 for Itanium Based Systems. Windows Small Business Server 2. Premium. Windows Small Business Server 2. Standard. Windows Small Business Server 2. Essentials. Windows Server 2. R2 Foundation. Windows Storage Server 2. R2. Windows Home Server 2. Phew No wonder people get confused. Windows Server 2. SKUs. This evening Microsoft released the details of Windows Server 2. There is also a datasheet and a FAQ with more details. There will be 4 count em four 5 count em again five SKUs See EDIT2 below Windows Storage Server will also be released. Please, do not panic if you are a HPC customer or an Enterprise customer. Heres why HPC will be a free downloadadd on for StandardDatacenter customers. Standard will have the same scalability and features as the Datacenter edition yes, you can build clusters with Windows Server 2. Standard and at a fraction of the cost that you did it with Enterprise edition as youll see next You see, IT Pros, not all change is bad J Did I just say thatPricing Changes. I want to focus on the 2 computer roomdata centre products for a while Datacenter and Standard. What were the shelf prices before with 2. R2  Bear in mind that the shown prices are the from the Open NL price list, the most expensive of the volume license types. They are shown to give an indication of past and present. What you will pay your resellerLARdistributor will probably be less So, Datacenter cost 4,8. VMs on that licensed host as your hardware would allow, and then install Windows Server 2. R2 or lower, any edition, into those VMs at no extra cost. The funny thing with Datacenter was that it was per processor, with a minimum of 2 processors hence Ive shown 4,8. Enterprise came with all the same features and scalability, with a limit of technical limit of 8 CPUs in the physical server. Licensing wise, it allowed 4 VMs on the licensed host to run Windows for free. You could double the licensing for the host to get 8 VMs for free but do the math and you might as well buy Datacenter edition then. However, Enterprise was 2,3. Standard Edition had limited scalability and features, e. GB RAM even for Hyper V. At 7. 26 you licensed a server, and it came with 1 free license for a VM on that host. Enter Windows Server 2. For Datacenter there is 1 change You buy 1 copy of Datacenter and it includes 2 processors. The whole minimum of 2 procs per host thing confused people. So Microsoft consolidated the 2 licenses into 1 and left the price at 4,8. We continue to have the unlimited virtualisation licensing. That means if you buy 1 copy of Datacenter for a 2 CPU host any virtualisation and you get unlimited installations of Windows Server 2. VMs on that host no changes there Lets move on to Standard before we cover the gap that was Enterprise. Standard is going from 7. CPUs in a server. For that, youre getting A huge leap in capabilities and scalability in the Standard edition. Rights to an additional copy of Windows for a second VM running on the physical box that is licensed using Windows Server 2. Standard. The other change for Standard is that it will match the Datacenter model. The Standard license will cover you for 2 CPUs in a server. If you want 4 CPUs, then you need 2 copies of Standard. I do not envision that being a problem because Ive never seen Standard installed on anything more than 2 CPUs. If youre about to complain because you have a bunch of Standard edition physical servers, the price is going up, and you dont need the additional featuresscalability, then I will respond with youve been throwing money away for years and your boss should be asking you some questions like Why didnt we virtualise those servers 3 years ago  If you virtualise those Standard Edition servers now then you can merge them into Datacenter per host licensing and save on electricity, support, and lots of other costs over your 3 year cycles. Windows Server 2. Foundation is OEM only and therefore there is no Open NL pricing. Foundation is also for single CPU servers, such as a micro server. More on Essentials later. Replacing the Enterprise Edition. OK Enterprise owners, just like the old Star Trek storyline, it is g o n e. Here is your replacement strategy If you use to buy Enterprise for clustering, then use Standard instead. You just saved 1,4. If you bought Enterprise to have virtualisation rights for 4 VMs on a host, then buy 2 Standards for that host hey R2 Enterprise cost 2,3. WS2. 01. 2 Standard costs 1,7. You just saved 5. Where Is Small Business Server SBS The answer to that question was posted on the SBS blog. SBS has been replaced by Windows Server 2. Essentials.    Windows Server 2. Essentials will support up to 2. Essentials is for 1 or 2 CPU servers and cost 4. Open NL.   The idea behind Essentials is that it will be the successor to SBS. Quoting the blog, that also features a Windows Server 2. Essentials FAQ Windows Server 2. Essentials has been designed to give you the flexibility to choose which applications and services run on premises and which run in the cloud. In contrast to Windows SBS Standard, Essentials offers lower up front acquisition and deployment costs.