Windows Server Licensing Sarah Richmond Senior Product Manager, Windows Server

Agenda Windows Server Product Line Goals for Licensing Windows Server Licensing Within Your Environment Additional Licensing Options Small Business Customer Options Software Assurance and Windows Server Windows Server Releases and Licensing Windows Server Release Roadmap Windows Server 2003 R2 Licensing Changes Post-Launch

Windows Server Product Line

Goals for Licensing Windows Server Flexibility Choose the Edition which suits your business needs Scalability Manage your costs through Device or User CALs and External Connectors Availability Purchase through the program which best meets your needs Windows Server uses a Server/CAL Model for flexibility within your environment

Licensing Windows Server within Your Environment Server & CAL model CAL of the same version or higher provides access to the server Exception is if the access is through the Internet and anonymous Deployment Mode Per User/ Per Device Per Server Mode Windows Server Device CAL Windows Server User CAL* Windows Server External Connector* Virtual Environments are considered the same as physical environments * New with Windows Server 2003

Additional Licensing Options Exceptions to CAL requirements – No CAL required Windows Server 2003, Web Edition* Windows Server 2003, Storage Edition* Premium Services – Incremental CAL required Terminal Services Terminal Server User CALs* TS Device CALs TS External Connectors* Rights Management Services* Rights Management User CALs Rights Management Device CALs Rights Management External Connectors * New with Windows Server 2003

Small Business Customer Options Small Business Server 2003 Limited to 75 Users Edition options based upon customer needs Standard Edition* Premium Edition* Small Business Server CALs follow Windows Server Model Small Business Server 2003, User CAL* Small Business Server 2003, Device CAL No External Connector Available through OEMs, Retail, and Volume Licensing * New with Windows Server 2003

Software Assurance and Windows Server Microsoft Volume Licensing Program Benefits for customers include New technology Productivity benefits Support benefits Tools for deployment Training to help deploy and use software efficiently Customer-driven changes for Server customers Cold Disaster Recovery (2004) Note: If purchased through Retail or OEM channel there is a 90-day grace period to enroll server into SA on a Volume Licensing Agreement

Windows Server Releases and Licensing ~ 4 years ~ 2 years Major Release Release Update Major Release Release Update Major Release Mainstream Service Packs & Updates Extended Support At least 5 years from major release At least 5 years

Release Roadmap 2005 2007 Future Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 “Longhorn R2” 2007 Windows Server “Longhorn” 2005 Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Windows Update Services Windows Server codenamed “Longhorn” Beta Windows Server 2003 “R2” Windows Storage Server “R2” Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition

Windows Server 2003 R2 Built on Windows Server 2003 SP1 Availability and Licensing Windows Server 2003 R2 will be the standard product in all channels at release Servers covered by Software Assurance (SA) at the time of release will receive R2 as part of their benefits Available for purchase as new server license for non-SA covered systems

Post-Windows Server 2003 Launch Licensing Changes Multi-core and impact upon licensing Continue to count physical processors, not cores Consistent across Server OS & Server Apps; including proc licensed apps (SQL, BizTalk, etc) x64 – Shipping concurrently SP1 No change in prices, maintain parity with 32-bit Cold Disaster Recovery License Grant for SA customers Additional copy of license for each server covered for use in Cold Disaster Recovery scenario

Community Resources Windows Hardware & Driver Central (WHDC) www.microsoft.com/whdc/default.mspx Technical Communities www.microsoft.com/communities/products/default.mspx Non-Microsoft Community Sites www.microsoft.com/communities/related/default.mspx Microsoft Public Newsgroups www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups Technical Chats and Webcasts www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx www.microsoft.com/webcasts Microsoft Blogs www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs

Additional Resources Product Resources Volume Licensing: Windows Server http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/default.mspx Terminal Services Rights Management Services Small Business Server http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/howtobuy/default.mspx Volume Licensing: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing Product Use Rights (updated quarterly) Product List Licensing Briefs   Software Assurance: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/sa/default.mspx