{"id":109401,"date":"2016-12-12T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=109401"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:32:46","slug":"premium-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2016\/12\/12\/premium-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announce Premium Assurance on 8 December 2016 (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hxi0ix\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hxi0ix<\/a>) which is a way of adding six more years of product support for either Windows Server or SQL Server.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a useful datasheet which gives more details, but here are the highlights: you need SA to be able to purchase Premium Assurance, and you must purchase it for ALL servers with active SA in an EA, EES or SCE. 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