Microsoft Visual Studio Licensing

1 Microsoft Visual Studio Licensing Published March 2017 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is provided "as-is." Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes 2 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Microsoft Visual Studio Licensing .. 1 Published March 2017.

2 1 Introduction .. 5 Visual Studio 2017 Licensing Overview .. 5 Users .. 5 The Team Foundation Server Environment .. 6 Visual Studio Team Services .. 6 How to Buy .. 7 Visual Studio 2017 Offerings and Purchasing Channels .. 7 Visual Studio Community 2017 .. 8 Who can use the Software .. 8 Visual Studio Subscription Renewals and Upgrades .. 9 Standard Subscriptions .. 9 Standard Subscription Upgrade Options .. 9 Renewing Down .. 10 Cloud Subscriptions .. 10 Visual Studio Team Services Purchasing .. 10 Other Channels .. 10 User 11 Licensed for Design, Development, Testing, and Demonstrating Your Programs 11 What Software is Included and Downgrade Rights.

3 11 Different Licensed Users Can Run the Same Software .. 12 Where the Software can be Installed and Run .. 12 Additional Use Rights and Benefits for Visual Studio Subscribers .. 13 Production use of Office Professional Plus 2016 .. 13 Production Use of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server .. 13 Monthly Microsoft Azure Credits for Visual Studio Subscribers .. 13 Visual Studio Team Services Benefits for Visual Studio Subscribers .. 13 Cloud Use Rights: Running the Subscriber Software on Microsoft Azure VMs 14 Lab Management .. 15 Load Testing .. 15 SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Developer .. 15 3 2017 Microsoft Corporation.

4 All rights reserved. IntelliTrace .. 15 When the Software Included is Subject to its Own Terms .. 16 Prerelease and Trial Software .. 16 SDKs, DDKs, Feature Packs, and patterns & practices Releases .. 16 Windows Embedded .. 16 IntelliTrace Collector and Microsoft Management Agent .. 16 Remote Tools .. 16 Scenarios in which Unlicensed Users can use the Software .. 17 Demonstration Using Terminal Services .. 17 Acceptance Testing .. 17 Feedback .. 17 How Certain Software Can Be Distributed to Others within Your Applications17 Other Guidance .. 18 When Windows on the Developer Desktop Requires a Separate License18 When Virtual Environments Require a Separate License.

5 18 Monitoring and Managing Development and Testing Environments Requires Management Licenses 18 Perpetual Use Rights .. 19 Reassignment of the License .. 19 Distribution of the Software as Part of an Installation Image .. 19 Assigning Visual Studio Subscriptions to External Entities ( solution providers, independent contractors, offshore development centers) .. 20 Visual Studio Subscriptions through Microsoft Partner Network(MPN) .. 21 Product Keys and Installation Software .. 21 Using Software Sourced from Subscriber Downloads but Licensed Under a Production License 21 Software Activation.

6 21 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 Licensing .. 21 Obtaining Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 .. 22 General Guidance for Licensing Team Foundation Server .. 22 Server Licensing Requirements for Team Foundation Server .. 23 Reassignment of the Server License .. 23 Using Visual Studio on the Build Server .. 24 Client Licensing Requirements for Team Foundation Server .. 24 When a Client Access License is Not Required .. 24 Server Features Requiring More than a CAL .. 25 Choosing between User CALs and Device CALs .. 254 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Multiplexing and Pooling Do Not Reduce the Need for CALs.

7 25 Release Management .. 26 Downgrade Rights for Team Foundation Server .. 26 Team Foundation Server under Software Assurance .. 26 Connecting Visual Studio Team Services to a Local Build Server .. 27 Methods of Accessing Team Foundation Server .. 27 Deployment Options .. 27 Multi-Server (Two-Tier) Deployment .. 27 Team Foundation Build Services .. 28 Lab Management Licensing .. 28 Lab Management Components .. 28 Lab Management Licensing .. 29 Appendix .. 30 For More Information .. 30 Evaluating Visual Studio .. 30 Visual Studio Express 2017 Products .. 30 Licensing Training Environments .. 30 Historical Visual Studio Subscription Transitions.

8 30 Visual Studio 2015 .. 31 Visual Studio 2013 .. 31 Visual Studio 2012 .. 31 Visual Studio 2010 .. 31 Visual Studio 2008 .. 32 Visual Studio 2005 .. 32 Licensing White Paper Change Log .. 335 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Introduction Visual Studio 2017 provides a rich, integrated development environment for creating stunning applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as modern web applications and cloud services. Visual Studio 2017 also provides a comprehensive, highly flexible set of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. Visual Studio subscriptions offer customers high-value subscriber benefits such as development/test use rights for Microsoft platform software like SQL Server/Windows/Windows Server, monthly Microsoft Azure credits, a developer account for publishing apps to the Windows Store and an Office 365 Developer subscription.

9 The remainder of this paper provides an overview of the Visual Studio product line and the Licensing requirements for those products in common deployment scenarios. If you re a volume Licensing customer, the definitive guide to Licensing terms and conditions is the Microsoft Licensing Product Terms and your Licensing program agreement. For retail customers the license terms are specified in the Retail Software License Terms included with your product. Visual Studio 2017 Licensing Overview With the primary Visual Studio 2017 offerings there are essentially two things for which you purchase licenses: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server environmentAdditionally, you can purchase Visual Studio Team Services for your team, which is billed along with other Microsoft Azure services.

10 Users The primary way to license users is by purchasing the appropriate level Visual Studio subscription for each user who will be participating in software development projects. The software, services, and support included with Visual Studio subscriptions varies by level, so you should consult the Visual Studio subscription comparison to determine the right level for the needs of each team member. The Visual Studio software and other Microsoft software that the individual subscriber can install and run is defined by what is available for that Visual Studio subscription level in Subscriber Downloads while the user s subscription is active.