You can find Microsoft’s October 2022 overview article here, and a bit of information in the March 2023 Outsourcing Software Management Licensing Brief. However, our top pick for the most complete and useful resource is the November 2022 Flexible Virtualization…
Online training If you are a High Schooler, or have access to the Dear Louise training sessions, then you can register for the Dear Louise: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit training which we ran in August 2024. It’s a 43-minute…
The main Learn page for the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit is here, with useful pages on SQL IaaS extension registration options, how Azure applies centrally assigned licenses, and how to create a SQL Server License Assignment.
The Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit is available to Enterprise Agreement customers and those with an MCA-E. It’s not available for CSP customers or for other products such as Windows Server. Find this information on this page by searching for…
Naturally, some of the SQL Server workloads running within a Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit scope may be for High Availability/Disaster Recovery purposes, and as long as they’re configured for HA/DR they’re switched to a $0 meter and don’t consume…
As an example, let’s imagine that Tangerine Truckers have the following SQL Server licenses available to be used with the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit: They create a License Assignment with the scope of a single Subscription which has the…
The Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit relies on Azure being able to see where SQL Server is running so that you know how many licenses are required to cover all of your resources. Sometimes Azure can’t detect SQL Server running…
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in April 2023. Like the regular Azure Hybrid Benefit it allows customers to bring their licenses to Azure to license the SQL Server part of…
An Azure Subscription is a container to which Azure resources are assigned as they are created. There are different Subscription types associated with the ways that a customer buys – an Azure Subscription for CSP is different to the one…
In July 2023 Microsoft announced the general availability of Dev Box, a cloud-based workstation optimized for developers. Think of it like a Windows 365 Cloud PC preconfigured with exactly what a developer needs to be productive. There are two parts…