Windows 10 on Azure
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I'm trying to convince my boss that we require VDA licencing or equivalent to use Windows 10 on Azure and that our Visual Studio Enterprise MPN only allows us to do application development and testing and wouldn't let us run MS Office Pro plus (for example) and use it as a daily driver.
Does anyone know where the best definitive documentation is for this?
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What do you mean by Windows 10 on Azure?
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If you are referring to Windows Virtual Desktop, that requires a Microsoft 365 E3, E5, A3, A5, F1, Business, or Windows E3, E5, A3, A5 license. Or for server only, you can use your regular RDS with Så calls.
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@Obsolesce said in Windows 10 on Azure:
What do you mean by Windows 10 on Azure?
If you have a Visual Studio Subscription you can spin up a Windows 10 VM.
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@flaxking said in Windows 10 on Azure:
Does anyone know where the best definitive documentation is for this?
"When Virtual Environments Require a Separate License
If a physical machine running one or more virtual machines is used entirely for development and test, then the operating
system used on the physical host system can be subscriber software. However, if the physical machine or any of the VMs
hosted on that physical system are used for other purposes, then both the operating system within the production
environment VMs and the operating system for the physical host must be licensed separately. The same holds true for
other software used on the system—for example, Microsoft SQL Server obtained as subscriber software can only be used
to design, develop, test, and demonstrate your programs. " -
The part in bold rules out the use of your license in any environment because of how he wants to use it, it also rules out anyone doing that on Azure because Azure is production and so never qualifies at all. So there isn't any grey area on this one.
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Thanks @scottalanmiller there was even an example in that document that fit our situation perfectly.
