{"id":13438,"date":"2012-09-03T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13438"},"modified":"2012-09-03T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:46:35","slug":"reminder-of-windows-server-2012-and-windows-8-licensing-for-vl-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13438","title":{"rendered":"Reminder of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Licensing For VL Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can now buy Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 via volume license channels.&#160; Here\u2019s a quick reminder of the changes in licensing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12433\" target=\"_blank\">The Windows 8 editions<\/a>: Remember that the RT edition is sold only on ARM tablets and is not in VL.&#160; The Enterprise edition is a benefit for when you add Software Assurance (SA) to Windows 8 Pro.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/2012\/08\/22\/windows-8-secrets-beyond-the-book-guide-to-product-editions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera<\/a>: The authors of Windows 8 Secrets did a much more complete job of comparing the editions of Windows 8 than the original Microsoft table did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13042\">Windows Server 2012 Licensing In Detail<\/a>: Windows Server Standard and Datacenter are GA.&#160; Essentials is still in RC.&#160; I\u2019ve no idea about Foundation, but it\u2019ll only be available via OEM channels and is not a VL SKU.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13090\">Windows Server 2012 Virtualisation Licensing Scenarios<\/a>: If you are doing virtualisation of Windows Serer on any kind of hypervisor (including VMware) then you need to read this. These rules are not constrained to Hyper-V.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windows-server-launch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">virtual launch<\/a> for Windows Server 2012 is tomorrow afternoon, at 16:00 GMT.&#160; We should expect TechNet and MSDN to be populated sometime around\/after that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4835c077-858e-43cd-bbf4-c8d633c42a35\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">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\/Licensing\" rel=\"tag\">Licensing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now buy Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 via volume license channels.&#160; Here\u2019s a quick reminder of the changes in licensing: The Windows 8 editions: Remember that the RT edition is sold only on ARM tablets and is not in VL.&#160; The Enterprise edition is a benefit for when you add Software Assurance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reminder of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Licensing For VL Purchases&#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":[174,183,109,118],"class_list":["post-13438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-deployment","tag-licensing","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\/13438","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=13438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}