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There\u2019s 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\u2019s an erroneous mention of a rule from 2023 about minimum requirements when licensing by virtual machine, so we\u2019ve added these details to our \u201cCautionary Notes\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to make every version of these Licensing Guide updates available to everyone, so we\u2019ve captured a PDF of the Licensing Guide and the FAQs. Find them here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4kLduxM<\/a>, and here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4bm1a3J<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subscribers can now view the details of \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201d and read the \u201cCautionary Notes\u201d in our Licensing Guides Gallery: https:\/\/bit.ly\/GuidesGallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s 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. 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