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Product Licensing Web is now Product Licensing Search, providing quick access to licensing terms, conditions and supplemental information relevant to the use of products licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

SQL Server 2008 R2 (licensed in Server-per CAL mode) Enterprise
On this page, you can find information for a particular product or product family. This information is taken directly from the Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights and the Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing documents.

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Product Use Rights

For specific details on a particular product, and how that product may be deployed and used, customers should review the Definitions and General Use Rights and Restrictions for each applicable Microsoft software and product.
Note: Not all software and products may have rights and restrictions, also known as "exceptions", per product category.

Product List
The Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing provides information monthly about Microsoft software and Online Services licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

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DA SAB Select/Select Plus Open Campus &
School Units		 EA &
EA Sub		 OV/OVS Open
License
Minimum		 Online
Subscription
Program
L L&SA SA L L&SA SA
  3YR 2YR 1YR 3YR 2YR 1YR P
SQL Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise 06/08 SRV 30 75 60 45 45 30 15 30 60 30 30 A P    
Note: If the cell for the product is blank then the product is not currently offered in the program.
*For Select Plus only the ‘L’ and three year values for ‘L&SA’ / ’SA’ will be used.

Product Notes

 

SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Enterprise Processor License

SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is available for multiple platforms (32 bit, 64 bit and Itanium). Customers licensed for SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise may install and use the software on any platform subject to the product use rights. The next version of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition is SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and the next version of SQL Server 2008 CAL is SQL Server 2008 R2 CAL.

Additional Use Rights for Customers with Active Software Assurance
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Product Use Rights for SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise customers who maintain active software assurance coverage on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise licenses are granted the following temporary use rights under those qualifying licenses until the release of the version immediately after SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise: When the software is licensed under the Server – CAL licensing model: Customers may run, at any one time, any number of instances of the server software in one physical and any number of virtual operating system environments on that servers to which they assign qualifying licenses.

When the software is licensed under the Per Processor licensing model: Customers may run, at any one time, any number of instances of the server software in one physical and any number of virtual operating system environments on that any of their servers to which they assign a number of qualifying licenses equal to the server’s number of physical processors without regard to the number of physical and virtual processors used.

Upon the availability of the next version of SQL Server, these use rights expire, and customers’ ongoing use of the software will be subject to the product use rights for SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise without these temporary rights.

Please remember: The terms and conditions of your volume license agreement, and the product use rights documented in that agreement, govern your use of products licensed from Microsoft. While we have endeavored to facilitate your access to and understanding of the product use rights through this online tool, your use of this site should not serve as a substitute for reading and understanding your volume license agreement. We will work to keep the contents of this site consistent with the governing volume license documentation, but in the case of conflicting content, you should refer to the terms and conditions of your agreement.

If you acquire licenses under the GSA our GIA programs, please contact your reseller or Microsoft licensing executive for the applicable license agreement/product use rights.

Note, because of the way that the Product Use Rights are designed, some provisions may appear that relate to other products, as noted in these pages.