Pay-As-You-Go licensing is based on Core meters for both Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server, with customers deciding whether they want to license their SQL Servers by virtual machine or by physical server. The licensing model is the same…
Microsoft introduced a Pay-As-You-Go billing option for SQL Server with the launch of SQL Server 2022 in November 2022. At that time it was available for SQL Server 2014 upwards, but today it’s also available for SQL Server 2012. Pay-As-You-Go…
Just picking out the best resources for you… For starters, here’s the Windows 11 Commercial Licensing Guide, published in April 2023, and a useful Learn article: Windows Commercial Licensing overview.
Here’s a list of Windows Server resources from Microsoft all in one place. The rating column reflects our opinion of how useful the documents or websites are: DateResourceOverviewPagesRatingOctober 2022Windows Server 2022 Licensing GuideA decent Licensing Guide covering all aspects of…
Licenses for on-premises products purchased through the Server and Cloud Enrollment are perpetual licenses, and Software Assurance is a mandatory purchase. However, there is also a special Monthly Subscription for certain products as well. So, the license types available through…
Latest news! Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center 2025 on November 1, 2024. As expected, there are no changes to the licensing, and license prices are increased by 10%. You can find a 2-page licensing datasheet here. Previous…
Microsoft have traditionally sold licenses for System Center through the Volume Licensing agreements and you’ve only been able to purchase them with Software Assurance. However, in April 2022 2-packs of System Center 2022 Standard and Datacenter Core MLs were also…
Customers cannot buy licenses for on-premises products through the MCA-E at this time.
Customers buying licenses through CSP accept the terms of the Microsoft Customer Agreement which doesn’t expire. A customer owns a perpetual license forever and may continue to deploy the version of the software that they purchased, or take advantage of…