re: Unlimited Dev & Test Enviroments with MSDN Subscriptions

AliasAlias — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:29:01 GMT

Here is a sample scinario from the VS & MSDN Licenensing Whitepaper:

Example: An external contractor is to work temporarily within a client organization’s development team. Each development team member at the client has a Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscription. If the contractor has a Premium level subscription too, then, like the existing team members, the contractor can use the software in the development environment. If the contractor does not have an MSDN subscription, or has an MSDN subscription at a lower level that does not include all of the software they will be using, then either:

• The contractor must obtain an appropriate (higher-level) MSDN subscription.

• The organization must assign one of their spare (unallocated) MSDN subscriptions—again, of a sufficient level to include the software they need to use—to the contractor for the duration of the contract.

Additionally, if the contractor is using the client’s Team Foundation Server then the client must supply a Team Foundation Server CAL for the contractor’s use. This could be a CAL purchased separately or a CAL that is included with the MSDN subscription that the client assigns to the contractor temporarily. Team Foundation Server CALs are only valid for accessing a Team Foundation Server acquired by the same organization.

re: Unlimited Dev & Test Enviroments with MSDN Subscriptions

Bob — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:56:34 GMT

I am a counsultant. I am doing a conversion for an SQL server deployment. I need SQL Server on my CLIENT's network so I can move suff from production to deve and back. Does my MSDN licence conver installing SQL Server the dev environment in my customers world for the life of my project?