The Azure DevOps tools form an Application Lifecycle Management solution which provides an environment where software developers, testers, project managers, and other members of a software development team can communicate and collaborate throughout the process of designing, building, testing, and…
Azure DevOps Server 2022 Server licenses and CALs are available with Software Assurance through the Volume Licensing agreements. As usual, check out the Product Terms for specifics.
SQL Server is a required infrastructure product for Azure DevOps Server 2022. Rights to install SQL Server Standard edition are included when an Azure DevOps Server 2022 license is purchased, and it’s downloadable as part of the Azure DevOps Server…
Customers with Azure DevOps Server 2022 licenses may install the software on their own servers, or on an Authorized Outsourcer’s server which is dedicated to them. Azure DevOps Server 2022 Server and CAL licenses always include Software Assurance and so…
A User SL for an online service that includes rights to access a licensed on-premises server is known as a CAL equivalent license. Because the User SL is a subscription license it’s deemed to be equivalent to the latest version…
There’s only one edition of the Azure DevOps Server 2022 product so down-edition rights don’t apply here. Customers may downgrade to a previous version of the product which, it’s worth noting, before Azure DevOps Server 2019, was called Visual Studio…
Azure DevOps Server 2022 licenses are always purchased with Software Assurance and thus customers are entitled to the Disaster Recovery benefit. This means that they can install Azure DevOps Server 2022 on a “cold” – that is, a turned off…
Azure DevOps Server 2022 licenses are always purchased with Software Assurance and customers are entitled to the License Mobility across Server Farms benefit which means that licenses can be reassigned between servers in a server farm as often as required.…
As with (just about) all of the other Server/CAL licensed products, an Azure DevOps Server 2022 license is assigned to a physical server and can be used to license the product running in a single virtual machine, and further licenses…
CALs are required to license external users and, as usual, one organization’s CALs cannot be used to access another organization’s server.