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One of the worst-kept secrets in VL cognoscenti circles: The Microsoft DVD Playback Pack for Windows Vista Business is (as you would imagine) quite cheap.

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The minimum license number therefore only applies to the initial Volume License agreement.

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For example, if a company purchases five Office 2010 Professional Plus licenses under a new agreement, three months later the same company can purchase one additional Office 2010 Professional Plus license under the same agreement. Once the initial Volume License Agreement is in place, additional licenses can be added to the Agreement in quantities of less than five. Quantities of less than five can also be purchased economically by making up the additional license using an inexpensive 'make up' product SKU. However, the five licenses can be made up of any combination of products. The minimum number of licenses required for a Volume License Agreement is five (5). Is there a mininum number of licenses that must be purchased under a Volume License Agreement? Lemington Consulting, which works extensively with Access volume licenses, explains the details in its FAQ:

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You only need to buy five copies of some software offered in the VL program. In order to qualify for a volume license, you don't need to buy five copies of the same piece of software. Jelen credits fellow MVP Ken Puls with discovering a loophole.ДЄ friend of mine, also a Microsoft MVP, confirms that this loophole's been around for years, and it's commonly used by people who want to buy a VL Windows server product but don't need five copies of Windows, much less five copies of Windows Server.

If you want VL Excel 2013, you have to buy five of them, right? At least, that's what I thought, until I went through Jelen's podcast. Most people think of volume licensing as a high-volume deal, with a minimum of five copies required to get a VL contract. I've seen the VL version of Excel 2013 listed for as little as $173, but few individuals in pursuit of PowerPivot will have the wherewithal to qualify for a Microsoft volume license. 27, when the corporate versions of Office 2013 ship. The volume licensing version of Excel 2013 has PowerPivot - or more accurately, it will have PowerPivot on Feb. It's someone else, high up, who puts the packages together, who made what I believe to be the world's worst mistake. I appreciate those products, you've seen me rave about those products. My friends, who create Excel, did not do this. Even Office 2013 Professional, with a $399 list price, doesn't include PowerPivot. PowerPivot is freely available to anyone with a copy of Excel 2010, but Microsoft took PowerPivot out of almost all versions of Excel 2013 - apparently as an incentive to force PowerPivot users to rent Office 360 E3 at $240 per year. I've already written about the way Microsoft has buried PowerPivot, 'the best new feature to hit Excel in 20 years,' according to 'Mr. It turns out there's a trick that people in the know have been using for years to comply, quite precisely, with the rules and pick up any VL software they might want for a song. VLs are expensive, cumbersome, and not for the faint of heart, the story goes. So if you have a Hyper-V host with two processors that have a total of 24 cores per Hyper-V host,ДЄll of these cores need to be licensed, so if you have more than 16 cores, you will need to buy four additional 2 core packs.Most people think of Microsoft volume licenses as the province of big companies - as Microsoft's way of keeping the hoi polloi from buying some of its fancier products. For each additional 1 or 2 VMs, all the physical cores Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in

Standard Edition provides rights for up to 2 Operating System Environments or.

Core licenses are sold in packs of two (2).

Minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server.

A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor and a.

Servers are licensed based on the number of processor cores in the physical server. Here's some information from the Windows Server Licensing datasheet:Д¬ore-based licensing requires all physical cores in the server to be licensed. The Windows Server 2019 licensing datasheetВ gives a quite good explanation on how the licensing works. Please note that this is a technical forum, not a legal one, for further questions regarding licensing I would advice you to contact a Microsoft licensing specialist or your reseller.

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