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Windows Server Core licenses

The licenses assigned to the server are called Core licenses, and you need to assign a minimum of 8 Core licenses to each processor, and a minimum of 16 Core licenses to each server. Therefore, a single processor machine with…

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Licensing Windows Server 2025

The diagram below shows a typical client server network: there’s a server in the center where the server products are installed, and then there are users who use a variety of devices to access the services of the server. Both…

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Availability of Project 2024 licenses 

Project Standard and Professional licenses are available with or without Software Assurance through the Volume Licensing agreements, and as perpetual licenses without Software Assurance through the Cloud Solution Provider program. As usual, check out the Product Terms for specifics.

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Step-up licenses

There is a Step-up license available for customers with active Software Assurance on their Project Standard licenses to move to Project Professional.

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Licensing Project to run on a server 

When customers purchase a license for Project Standard or Professional they are entitled to install Project on a server and use it from there. This means that both RDS scenarios, where Project runs from the server, and VDI scenarios, where…

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Workplace Discount Program

Organizations that purchased Project 2021 Standard or Professional licenses with Software Assurance were eligible for the Workplace Discount Program (previously known as the Home Use Program (HUP) until August 2022). This entitled the user of the licensed device to purchase…

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Downgrade and down-edition rights

Downgrade rights for Project are available if licenses are purchased through a Volume Licensing agreement or CSP. Customers with Project Standard 2024 licenses may use any previous version of Project Standard, and customers with Project Professional 2024 licenses may use any…

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Portable use rights

Portable use rights for Project Standard/Professional are available; if a customer has purchased a Project license for a device, then they are also allowed to install Project on a second portable device for the exclusive use of the main user…

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Multiple installation rights

It’s probably not a requirement that many customers have, but when you assign a Project license to a device then you are allowed to install the Project software as many times as you want to on that licensed device.

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Licensing Project 2024

Both editions of Project 2024 are licensed by device; a license is assigned to a device and the software is licensed to be used on that device by any user.

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