Server 2012 r2 standard license price
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In fact, that's what Microsoft officials are saying when asked about the reason for the price increase in the Datacenter edition with R2. The Datacenter edition does offer users unlimited installations of Windows Server on licensed hosts, which can be cheaper than licensing lots of VMs via the Windows Server 2012 and R2 Standard editions.
#Server 2012 r2 standard license price software#
"Anyone who did not purchase Software Assurance on their previous server licensing (Windows Server) will need to purchase their server licenses all over again if they want to upgrade," said Aidan Finn, a Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) with an expertise in Virtual Machine who works for MicroWarehouse Ltd, an Irish Value Added Distributor, as a Technical Sales Lead. That's why business users may want to consider purchasing SA if you are virtualizing Windows Server, no matter which hypervisor you run because of the host/VM licensing system for Windows Server, Finn added.
#Server 2012 r2 standard license price upgrade#
Windows Server 2012 users (whether or not they have Software Assurance) don't need to upgrade their CALs they can use the same CALs on both Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. Users who are Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) licensees and who already have Windows Server 2012 won't pay anything additional to move to the R2 version of the product, according to the datasheet. Here are the new prices for the four Server 2012 R2 SKUs (Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, Foundation):
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Pricing for the other three Windows Server 2012 R2 SKUs remain the same as they are for Windows Server 2012. (These are prices for the Open NL version, which is the highest priced volume-license version.) The Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter SKU costs $6,155, plus client-access license fees. (plus additional client-access licenses, priced separately). The Windows Server 2012 Datacenter SKU costs $4,809
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The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to shell out 28 percent more for the R2 version than the current Windows Server 2012 Datacenter release. Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product.