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
Any guidance for purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows Svr 2012
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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 Id 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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