{"id":38912,"date":"2024-02-01T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/?p=38912"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:29:39","slug":"microsoft-azure-arc-esus-for-dr-and-dev-test-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-azure-arc-esus-for-dr-and-dev-test-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Arc ESUs for DR and Dev\/Test environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective October 1, 2023, Microsoft added a clause to the Product Terms: If a customer has <strong>enabled Extended Security Updates<\/strong> (ESU) <strong>through<\/strong> <strong>Azure Arc<\/strong> they <strong>may<\/strong> <strong>use<\/strong> the <strong>updates<\/strong> on licensed <strong>Disaster Recovery servers<\/strong> and in <strong>Dev\/Test environments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/02\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Arc-ESUs-for-DR-and-DevTest-environments.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/02\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Arc-ESUs-for-DR-and-DevTest-environments.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/02\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Arc-ESUs-for-DR-and-DevTest-environments-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/02\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Arc-ESUs-for-DR-and-DevTest-environments-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/02\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-02-01-Update-Microsoft-Azure-Arc-ESUs-for-DR-and-DevTest-environments-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Product Terms clause<\/h2>\n<p>The Product Terms clause states:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disaster Recovery and Dev\/Test Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Customer may apply Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc to the following Operating System Environments (OSE) for no additional cost:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customer\u2019s entitled Disaster Recovery OSEs associated with its underlying software licenses.<\/li>\n<li>Development, test, and related OSEs licensed with Microsoft Developer edition licenses or Visual Studio subscriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>More Information<\/h2>\n<p>For software <strong>licensing information<\/strong> on <strong>Microsoft licensing programs<\/strong>, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/software\/microsoft\/\">https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/software\/microsoft\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> for <strong>expert services<\/strong> on your specific <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> <strong>agreements<\/strong>, <strong>more<\/strong> <strong>information<\/strong> and to <strong>request a<\/strong> <strong>quote<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective October 1, 2023, Microsoft added a clause to the Product Terms: If a customer has enabled Extended Security Updates (ESU) through Azure Arc they may use the updates on licensed Disaster Recovery servers and in Dev\/Test environments. &nbsp; Product Terms clause The Product Terms clause states: Disaster Recovery and Dev\/Test Environments Customer may apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":33016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-azure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58427,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912\/revisions\/58427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}