Windows Server 2022 Licensing: Learn The Basics In One Hour

From a Windows admin since 1993: No wonder companies / people, at least in the country where I live, are leaving the Microsoft model. Licenses are so complicated it takes the fun and eagerness out of trying to get it right. And I mean that sincere. Tech admins as well as legal department do not want things overly complicated or they start looking at alternatives, even though they might be more expensive = paying to get it more simple in life.

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Thank you for the video! Do I need active Software Assurance for my Windows Server and SQL Server 2022 licenses if I want to use colocation hosting (my own HW and SW)?

Excellent explanation of Microsoft's complicated licensing scheme. Can you clarify the part about not needing user CALs if users are already licensed with Microsoft 365 E5? Does this rule apply to on-prem hardware as well? For example, I have a physical server with Windows 2022 Datacenter acting as a Hyper-V host. All my users are licensed with Microsoft 365 E5 licenses. Do users still need a CAL to access the physical on-prem Hyper-V host?

Hello, thank you for this great video! One question, if a client has perpetual license through OV and doesn't pay SA, can they add additional VMs (through CSP) on the same host with new licensing model (per VM)? Thank you

Nice videos, quick question if say I had VMware environment. 3 hosts with a small number of VM’s running windows server Can I use the Per VM windows server licensing model to license these VMs running on VMware? And if needed I can actually buy standard buy install data center for extra savings.

What are the licensing requirements for disaster recovery? If you have a host with a mirror of your production VMs for example at a remote site that is not being actively used except in a disaster? If I understand it correctly, it doesn't have to be licensed but if you move to it you have to stay there for 90 days OR have software assurance. Any guidelines on that would be appreciated.

Hi Alex, Thank you for the great videos. I have interesting licensing scenario. If we have 3 host Hyper-V cluster with 2 VMs with Windows Server and 65(for example) Linux VMs. What is the license that is needed for the hosts Standard or DC? This is the definition of OSE: Operating System Environment. An “operating system environment” is: i. all or part of a physical or virtual (or otherwise emulated) operating system instance, that enables separate machine identity (primary computer name or similar unique identifier) or separate administrative rights, and instances of applications (if any), configured to run on the operating system instance or parts identified above. It is not stated Windows or Linux or whatever other OS.

If in one cluster we have 23 Vm, where 20 vm is using standard os and 3 Vm using datacenter os. It is still required to license entire infra with datacenter or we can do use both Std. and Dc based licensing sepately in a cluster

I have all users licensed with Microsoft 365 E5 in a hybrid environment (on-prem & Azure). If I set up an isolated network and deploy clients and a Windows Server Standard 2022 host, are my CAL equivalents from my E5 licenses valid, even though the network has no internet or Azure connectivity nor an association with the corporate network? In short - is the important factor that we are the same organisation rather than some technical factor to benefit from CAL equivalence

Hi, thank you for this great video! I'm totally lost :D :D I have 3 servers (in cluster) each server have 2 physical processor with 20 core each (total of 6 processors and 120 cores). I will run on them 15 VMs. The total number of the employees/devices are 250. How should I license them?

If hyper-threading is enabled in the virtual machine, then do I need to consider logical cores for the windows server license calculations?

I have a question: my client wish to upgrade his licensing to windows server 2022 to his actual 16 core physical Server. But my cliente told me that he is going to buy a new physical Server in 3 months and he wishes to transfer (move) the 16 core windows server licenses to this new physical server. ¿Does CSP licensing work in this case? Either perpetual or suscription mode. I'll be really greatfull if you can help with this doubt 🙏🏼

Hello, I have purchased 48 Dell servers, each with 2 sockets and 28 cores per socket. They were supplied with OEM Windows Server 2022 Datacenter licenses per server, covering all cores. I am utilizing VMware vSphere for virtualization. How can I license all of my Windows Server 2022 virtual machines? I have been using the OEM keys to license each virtual server, but I have run out of activations and can no longer activate additional servers.

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I have an on-prem server with dual CPUs and 28 cores each. There would only be 2-4 users. Would I then need 56 single core licenses to be fully compliant? Just curious, what happens if, theoretically, I only procured a 16-core license? Would only 16 cores be available to be assigned?