Academic licensing for 2012 Essentials

Hi, I have seen an academic license option advertised by resellers for Windows Server2012 Essentials. Are there any functional differences between this academic license version and the regular version?

Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum.
Regarding Academic Volume Licensing, it can provide simple, flexible, volume-based pricing. I suggest you could refer to the following article for details.
Academic Volume Licensing
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ww/buy/Pages/volume-licensing.aspx
Hope it helps.
Best Regards,
Andy Qi
Andy Qi
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According to your description, my understanding is that you want to specify DNS server to different user groups and devices. And all of the home devices registry their DNS record on your internal DNS server.
I am not sure about the IP address configuration of your home network. Windows Server 2012 is the only device directly connect to Internet, and all of the devices on home network are on a private network?
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using DHCP server to specify DNS servers to different devices.
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I suggest that you follow your own suggestion on what to believe from posts. Read the EULA on Essentials on your own. And talk to a trained Microsoft licensing specialist. Some of your assumptions are not valid.
"I have purchased Server Essentials 2012 R2, which allows for one instance to implement the hypervisor and one instance of a virtual machine."
From the data sheet describing Server Essentials is this statement - "
With Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, the product licensing terms have been expanded to enable you to run one operating system instance on the physical server in order to run Hyper-V, plus a second instance on that server in order to run Essentials as
a virtual machine.
Therefore, the only VM you can legally run under Essentials is another copy of Essentials.
"Furthermore it would be foolish for Microsoft to deny me additional virtual machines under that scenario since I can install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 for free and use Essentials to manage it."
FALSE. Actually, virtualization rights are part of the Server operating system license. Since the license is written by Microsoft, they can include whatever limits they deem appropriate. In fact, when looking at Standard and Datacenter
Editions of Windows Server, the ONLY difference between the two are the virtualization rights included with the operating system. Your assumption that you can run it for 'free' under Hyper-V Server is incorrect. True, Hyper-V server is
a no-cost download from Microsoft, but it does not include any operating system licenses. Those must be purchased separately. Licenses are assigned to physical machines, not to virtual machines. So it would be possible to use your 2003 license
on a Hyper-V Server instance, but only if it is a non-OEM license. OEM licenses are non-transferrable from the hardware with which they were sold.
"It would also be foolish because I could virtualize everything under VMWare's ESXi --for free--"
FALSE. Same reason as given above.
Lastly, be forewarned about P2V of a Windows Server 2003 machine. If you spend any time reading this forum, you will find lots of horror stories about people having less than successful attempts at P2V'ing WS2003. The recommendation is to build
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A question about VM instances on standard server 2012 license exists here
I cannot link it here as my account is not verified. The topic is titled "Windows Server 2012 Standard License and VMs"
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If I understand this correctly, 1 windows server standard license provides support for 1 Physical Operating System Environment (The VM Host / POSE) and permission to run 2 Virtual Operating System Environment(VOSE).
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are properly licensed by whoever licenses them, you can run however many instances that license allows.
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Thanks

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Just to add, each license covers up to two physical processors. If you have more than two physical processors in a server, you need to assign additional licenses for it.
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Windows Server and Processor Cores… (Part 2): Windows Server 2012
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Hello,
I’m in the process of preparing a transition (migration if you like) from an SBS 2003 environment to a Server 2012 Essentials DC, and separate Exchange platform.
I started with this document http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200112.aspx
I clearly states to Install Windows Server 2012 Essentials in migration mode
In order to transfer the DC role tot the new server.
I’m Using the 180 TRIAL VERSION of windows server 2012 Essentials to test if this will work. The thing is…. I did not get the question to install the server (or run it) in MIGRATION mode !!
Does the TRIAL VERSION enable you to utilize this migration mode or not ?
Thank you,

You might ask them over here.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserveressentials&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
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Cannot upgrade server 2012 essentials to Server 2012 standard

using dism :
PS C:\Windows\system32> dism.exe /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-HF7PX-XXXXX-2XDPX-XXXXX /AcceptEula
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The specified product key could not be validated.
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Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.2.9200.16384
Image Version: 6.2.9200.16384
Current edition is:
Current Edition : ServerSolution
The operation completed successfully.
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Hi,
Glad the issue was solved by yourself.
I think it should be an in-place license transition, transitioning from Windows Server 2012 Essentials to Windows Server 2012 Standard.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj247582.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /accepteula /productkey:Product Key
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