The limitation here, is that you cannot enable the Essentials features, you must only enable Hyper-V and you can only virtualise one guest, that is, an Essentials R2 VM. Where you actually install these RDS CALs is still somewhat of a mystery to me as the Licensing manager is not exposed in Essentials.Įssentials 2012 R2 also now includes the ability to be used as a Hyper-V host. You purchase your new Server Standard R2 license, you install Essentials as a role, and you purchase as many CALs as you need for staff in your office, and as many RDS CALs to cover how many people will be using that feature. The above also applies in this situation. With the release of Essentials R2, we now have the option to install Essentials as a role to an otherwise normal Standard server. This it seems was just a general misconception of how Microsoft licensing, and downgrade rights operate, however don’t say you weren’t told. Meaning the appliance based nature of Essentials as a one off purchase was not being utilised. What you were actually bound by, was your Server Standard license. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, because i had wrongly assumed that when you downgraded to Essentials, you were therefore using Essentials and were bound by, or entitled to, use the licensing model of that OS, and what i mean by that is that you received your 25 ‘Server CALs’ and the RWA stuff was one of the benefits of the OS. If you had previously purchased Server 2012 Standard, and exercised down grade rights to install a copy of Essentials, you may be surprised to learn that ‘to the letter of the law’ you would therefore be required to purchase Server CALs and more expensively RDS CALs if you intended to use the RWA feature to remote access client computers. In conversation with some Microsoft folks recently we found out about some, what ill call, small print, in the EULA of Essentials and Essentials R2.
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