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Delivery, download, and application of ESUs for Windows Server is no different from other Windows Updates, but the updates provided through ESUs are only security updates. You can install the updates using whatever tools and processes you already have in…

The price of a 1-year ESU Core license is equivalent to the price of a regular Windows Server Core license without Software Assurance. When you look on a price list at the ESU SKU descriptions you see that they’re available…

Licensing with 1-year ESUs Let’s cover a couple of scenarios, where Maroon Balloons are running Windows Server in their own data center. You can see that they’ve got a server with 8 x 8-core processors. There are lots of virtual…

ESU licenses are purchased in addition to the licenses that have already been purchased to license the Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 workloads themselves, which must be qualifying licenses. Conveniently, ESUs follow the same licensing model as the underlying Windows Server…

The 1-year ESU licenses are the traditional way of purchasing Extended Security Updates and have historically only been available through the Enterprise Agreement. For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 you won’t find them on the public EA price list, but you…

If customers decide to run their out-of-support Windows Servers in Azure, then Extended Security Updates are free for three years. This includes virtual machines running on Azure multi-tenant hardware which are being paid for on a Pay-As-You-Go basis or those…

Partners typically offer customers two types of solutions for running Windows Server workloads on their infrastructure. One type of solution is focused on the partners providing the hardware and the customers bringing their own licenses and having a hand in…

Customers who have qualifying licenses for their on-premises workloads may purchase and deploy either the 1-year or the Azure Arc ESUs.

Customers can choose to run Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 workloads on their own on-premises servers, on a variety of partner solutions, or in Azure. The Windows Server workloads are licensed in the usual way, and then if customers want these…

The 1-year ESU licenses are the traditional way of purchasing Extended Security Updates and have historically only been available through the Enterprise Agreement. For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 you won’t find them on the public EA price list, but you…