On-premises: Eligible customers will be able to purchase Extended Security Updates for their on-premises environment. Licenses are sold in 2 core packs for SQL Server and 16 core packs for Windows Server 2012, and are priced as below:
Year 1: 75% of full license price annually
Year 2: 100% of full license price annually
Year 3: 125% of full license price annually
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/extended-security-updates
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On-premises: Eligible customers will be able to purchase Extended Security Updates for their on-premises environment. Licenses are sold in 2 core packs for SQL Server and 16 core packs for Windows Server 2012, and are priced as below:
Year 1: 75% of full license price annually
Year 2: 100% of full license price annually
Year 3: 125% of full license price annually
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/extended-security-updates
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It says if we migrate our on-prem 2012 servers to Azure we get free ESU licenses, does that mean if we onboard on-prem servers to azure as Arc servers we get licenses? or for ARC enabled servers also we need to manually add ESU licenses?
Was curious if anybody had a ballpark estimate of what a 16 Core pack of Server 2012 standard would cost? We use volume licensing and and am trying to prepare our client for what the total cost is going to be to continue to patch these servers that they can't afford to upgrade.
On-premises: Eligible customers will be able to purchase Extended Security Updates for their on-premises environment. Licenses are sold in 2 core packs for SQL Server and 16 core packs for Windows Server 2012, and are priced as below:
Year 1: 75% of full license price annually
Year 2: 100% of full license price annually
Year 3: 125% of full license price annually
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Hello experts, I'm asking this question because I'm on the application development and support side of things for a large company and my infrastructure coordinator, who is a total bozo, is insisting I can only have Windows Server 2016 or 2019 servers built, because Windows Server 2012 is out of support, and it would be expensive to pay for extended support. After 5 minutes of Googling this subject, I can find nowhere that states the extended support period that lasts until October 10 2023 will be an additional cost. And yes, we will definitely undertake a project in Q4 of 2022 to migrate our 5 dozen 2012 servers to whatever the newest version is, but we do not want to be forced off of 2012 right now.
Server 2012 is out of Mainstream support. That means you will no longer get new features. You will continue getting bug and security fixes. This extended support costs you nothing.
There is nothing wrong with still running Server 2012, but if you can start building off of 2019, it's a good time to. Just make sure all of your licensing and CALs are up to date with your environment. (CALs for Server 2012 won't keep you legal if you run 2019)
They might be talking about the extra extended support that Microsoft is offering for Windows 7 (and will probably offer for Server 2012 in 2023) where you pay Microsoft money for a few years to get security updates past the EOL date.
You are correct in thinking that extended support for '12 & '12R2 out to 2023 does not have additional cost and you will get security updates up to that date. They are already out of mainstream support though.
However you are the bozo for insisting on continuing to build Windows '12 (not even R2!) servers and not building '16 1607 at the very least and seriously looking at building '19 1809 (these are the LTSC builds so are supported out to 2027 and 2029 respectively)
Hello,
We have so many on prem virtual machines running windows 2012 servers in the environment and I was reading that there is buy option to extend the support for patching
and updates. I need help on how this can be accomplished.
Do we buy license from Microsoft ? What type of license?
All covered here
learn.microsoft.comHow to get Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2,...
Learn how to get Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 after the end of their support lifecycle.
Note the specifics here about volume license requirements and what can be covered along with how
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowserver/forum/all/how-can-i-buy-esu-for-windows-server-2012-r2/6eaa67c0-0b0c-46ee-b48a-c548bb907b76
It would seem that microsoft has decided to extend support for 2012 another 3 years. Well at least we got some old stuff migrated that management might not have given the budget for in any other case.
https://blog.trustedtechteam.com/2023-11-13-microsoft-announces-three-year-extension-for-windows-server-2012-esus/
It’s my understanding that you should be able to buy the ESUs from any Microsoft CSP. The MAK will show up in the MAC (admin.microsoft.com), which you’ll add to each server using slmgr.vbs /ipk and then activate.
You’ll typically get 3 years of updates via ESU. Each license is only valid for a year, so you’ll need to re-license each server annually. In my experience, the cost per license doubles each year.
If you’re interested in getting in contact with someone who can sell you ESUs, send me a DM. They’re located locally to me (MN). I’m not sure if they’re able to sell to companies in other states, as they’re mostly a local MSP/ITSP, but it’d be worth asking.
We have a client that’s got a Windows Server 2012 R2 server and a pretty extensive Autodesk Revit deployment with Revit Servers 2018 through 2024. Their projects are typically very large and long running so there are still projects in Revit 2018 that are being actively worked on. We started working back in September of last year to try to migrate them to at least Revit 2021 (which supports Windows Server 2022) but we aren’t going to make it and they’re likely going to be stuck on Windows Server 2012 for quite a while. At this point, we have to start looking at how to keep the Server 2012 going for as long as we can and the Extended Security Updates seem to be our only option. We usually buy Microsoft licensing through TechData / TD Synnex but they have basically said “we don’t do that” and hung up. I’m digging around on the Microsoft site now to try to wrap my head around it but am not making a lot of progress. Can anyone here give me some pointers or point me in the right direction on this? My original hope was that there would just be a SKU that I’d buy that would give me a magical key or something to continue getting updates but that’s apparently not the case
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