Planning for Licensing

Microsoft has made significant licensing changes with System Center 2012. With System Center Endpoint Protection now being released with Configuration Manager, this section calls out specifics on that as well. The System Center 2012 suite has two product editions, differentiated by virtualization rights only:

Datacenter: Used for highly virtualized environments

Standard: Used for lightly virtualized or nonvirtualized environments

These product editions include System Center Endpoint Protection in addition to the other System Center 2012 components. The only difference between the two editions is the number of operating system environments (OSEs) that you can manage per license. Datacenter allows unlimited number of ...

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