There’s a new Licensing Guide for Windows Server 2025. Microsoft now publish it on a Licensing Guidance website rather than a PDF, so its main changes are shifts in the order and layout throughout to accommodate the new format. The useful FAQs are now separate, slightly confusingly no longer within the same document. There’s an erroneous mention of a rule from 2023 about minimum requirements when licensing by virtual machine, so we’ve added these details to our “Cautionary Notes”.

We want to make every version of these Licensing Guide updates available to everyone, so we’ve captured a PDF of the Licensing Guide and the FAQs. Find them here: https://bit.ly/4kLduxM, and here: https://bit.ly/4bm1a3J.

Subscribers can now view the details of “What’s New” and read the “Cautionary Notes” in our Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.