Step-up licenses
Customers with active Software Assurance on their System Center 2022 Standard Server MLs may purchase a Step-up license to move to System Center 2022 Datacenter Server MLs if required.
Licensing for the cloud
Customers with System Center 2022 Server MLs may install the software on their own servers, or on an Authorized Outsourcer’s server which is dedicated to them. System Center 2022 Server MLs with Software Assurance are eligible for the following SA…
System Center Branches
The majority of the System Center 2022 components (Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager) are supported by the Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) with 5 years of mainstream and 5 years of extended support. In…
Downgrade and down-edition rights
The usual downgrade rights to previous versions such as System Center 2019 are available. The only difference between System Center 2022 Standard and Datacenter licenses are the virtualization rights, and so down-edition rights aren’t available (or needed) for System Center 2022.
Licensing for Disaster Recovery
If System Center 2022 Standard and Datacenter Server MLs are covered by active Software Assurance then an organization is eligible for the Disaster Recovery SA benefit. This means that they can install System Center 2022 on a “cold” – that is, a…
Licensing a server farm
Licensing the physical server System Center 2022 Standard and Datacenter Server MLs are not eligible for the License Mobility across Server Farms benefit even if a customer has active Software Assurance on their licenses. Thus, in common with Windows Server…
Licensing virtual machines
The rules for licensing servers in a virtualized environment are exactly the same as for Windows Server 2022 but we’ll look at some examples here specifically for System Center 2022. In common with Windows Server, up until October 2022 the…
Licensing external users
If external users access servers managed by System Center 2022, there are no System Center licensing requirements for those users.
Licensing System Center 2022 for servers
System Center 2022 Server MLs follow the same Per Core licensing model as Windows Server 2022, and you’ll find it called the Management Servers licensing model in Microsoft’s documentation. Every physical core in a server being managed needs to be…
SYSTEM CENTER 2022: SERVERS
There are two editions of System Center 2022 to license servers: Standard and Datacenter edition. The Server Management Licenses (MLs) are assigned to server devices and both licenses allow installation and use of the following System Center components: Configuration Manager…