{"id":13332,"date":"2012-08-16T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:21:58","slug":"windows-server-2012-windows-8-available-to-volume-license-with-sa-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13332","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2012 &#038; Windows 8 Available to Volume License with SA Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Software Assurance on your WS2012 volume licenses then you can start downloading from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/servicecenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC)<\/a>.&#160; Those customers can start planning their Hyper-V (<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11979\" target=\"_blank\">see the new features<\/a>) host upgrades \u2026 but hold off if you are using System Center because you will need SP1 for System Center 2012 to continue to manage the upgraded hosts and migrated clusters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"554\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not on MSDN\/TechNet and is not expected there until after the launch on September 4th. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/technetuk\" target=\"_blank\">@TechNetUK<\/a> saw me tweeting on the subject and thankfully cleared up the issue:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image_thumb6.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, it\u2019s very disappointing but that\u2019s how the cookie is crumbling on this one. I\u2019d love to have had it sooner so I could get current screenshots for the <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13269\" target=\"_blank\">new WS2012 Hyper-V book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 is also available to VL w\/ SA customers on the VLSC site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/image_thumb5.png\" width=\"554\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPLA folks, check your pricelists to ensure you are legit to move up first.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Partner Network download content has not been updated.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:<\/p>\n<p>I got a tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/softwareweaver\" target=\"_blank\">@softwareweaver<\/a> to say that WS2012 is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazure\/archive\/2012\/08\/16\/windows-server-2012-now-available-in-the-windows-azure-virtual-machine-gallery.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">now available<\/a> on Azure VM.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:fdd58933-876b-442f-8f25-ae005d761c76\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Software Assurance on your WS2012 volume licenses then you can start downloading from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC).&#160; Those customers can start planning their Hyper-V (see the new features) host upgrades \u2026 but hold off if you are using System Center because you will need SP1 for System Center 2012 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Server 2012 &#038; Windows 8 Available to Volume License with SA Customers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[181,109,118],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-hyper-v","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}