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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

As an sys admins we need to provide our development team with both an integration and development environment. Spawning virtual machines would be a great option, right?

However, when is it considered a production environment vs development? Before answering consider this...

This VM will be running within our production virtual infrastructure, production network, and added to the production domain (our Enterprise AD domain). However, the intent of the server will be strictly limited to development (no production use). Would I need a "regular" server OS license for this Development virtual server? or will a developers MSDN license cover the OS license as well?

Or how about even just a physical server that will be connected the production domain but again, only be used for development and/or integration servers. Again, which license would I need?

Any form of official documentation or reference would be greatly appreciate. Thanks!

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Regardless of what anyone here tells you, you really need to consult a license specialist on whatever products you're working with. Licensing is so complex these days that its way too easy to violate a license agreement.

That being said, if your intent is actually to use it as a dev server then I'd say use an MSDN license.

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