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    Server 2012 R2 Downgrade Rights

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      It is one by one. So you could have one 2008 R2 VM and one 201 R2 VM on the same machine from the same standard license.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
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        Agreed, you can do what you want - one 2008 R2 and the other 2012 R2

        Yep I'm a rehash today.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          The logic behind this is that while MS is allowing you to downgrade, they only do so in the hopes that it is temporary. No MS licensing makes it harder to upgrade in any way, they work very hard to make sure that any allowance that they give for downgrade rights always leaves an easy path to get up to date. They don't do anything to hinder that process.

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          • ?
            A Former User
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            The Microsoft licensing rep is telling us we can't. It's either use Server 2012 R2 and get the trades or trade full seat in to use your downgrade rights, which would eliminate using the VOSE. So you can get two VMs from Server 2012 R2, but if you downgrade you only get one Server 2008 r2 Standard and that's it.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @A Former User
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              @thecreativeone91 said:

              The Microsoft licensing rep is telling us we can't. It's either use Server 2012 R2 and get the trades or trade full seat in to use your downgrade rights, which would eliminate using the VOSE. So you can get two VMs from Server 2012 R2, but if you downgrade you only get one Server 2008 r2 Standard and that's it.

              Which rep was that? I'm pretty confident that that is wrong.

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              • ?
                A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                @thecreativeone91 said:

                The Microsoft licensing rep is telling us we can't. It's either use Server 2012 R2 and get the trades or trade full seat in to use your downgrade rights, which would eliminate using the VOSE. So you can get two VMs from Server 2012 R2, but if you downgrade you only get one Server 2008 r2 Standard and that's it.

                Which rep was that? I'm pretty confident that that is wrong.

                Brent something. I just check with our other one and he said it was fine. And put it in writing for me so I'm good with that.

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                • GregoryHallG
                  GregoryHall
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                  This write up is what I point people to when they have these questions (*the one my MS rep from SW said is gospel)
                  http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=D7zcRxMWVLN

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                    @thecreativeone91 said:

                    Brent something. I just check with our other one and he said it was fine. And put it in writing for me so I'm good with that.

                    Okay, so I'm not crazy then 🙂

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @thecreativeone91 said:

                      The Microsoft licensing rep is telling us we can't. It's either use Server 2012 R2 and get the trades or trade full seat in to use your downgrade rights, which would eliminate using the VOSE. So you can get two VMs from Server 2012 R2, but if you downgrade you only get one Server 2008 r2 Standard and that's it.

                      Which rep was that? I'm pretty confident that that is wrong.

                      I agree with Scott - Pretty sure he's wrong.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User @GregoryHall
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                        @GregoryHall said:

                        This write up is what I point people to when they have these questions (*the one my MS rep from SW said is gospel)
                        http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=D7zcRxMWVLN

                        Yeah but that says nothing about this specific case in regards to VOSE rights.

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