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Enhance for devtest ESE clarity
We have customers provisioning devtest ESU licenses incorrectly, getting billed and requesting a refund because they didn't fully understand the documentation. I made some edits to existing verbiage in this article in attempt to improve the clarity on how devtest licensing works.
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articles/azure-arc/servers/deliver-extended-security-updates.md

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There are some scenarios in which you may be eligible to receive Extended Security Updates patches at no additional cost. Two of these scenarios supported by Azure Arc are (1) [Dev/Test (Visual Studio)](/azure/devtest/offer/overview-what-is-devtest-offer-visual-studio) and (2) [Disaster Recovery (Entitled benefit DR instances from Software Assurance](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs/software-assurance-by-benefits) or subscription only). Both of these scenarios require the customer is already using Windows Server 2012/R2 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc for billable, production machines.
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> [!WARNING]
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> Don't create a Windows Server 2012/R2 ESU License for only Dev/Test or Disaster Recovery workloads. You can't provision an ESU License only for non-billable workloads. Moreover, you'll be billed fully for all of the cores provisioned with an ESU license.
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> Don't create a Windows Server 2012/R2 ESU License for only Dev/Test or Disaster Recovery workloads. You should not provision an ESU License only for non-billable workloads. Moreover, you'll be billed fully for all of the cores provisioned with an ESU license, and any dev/test cores on the license will not be billed as long as they are tagged accordingly based on the qualifications below.
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To qualify for these scenarios, you must already have:
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- **Billable ESU License.** You must already have provisioned and activated a WS2012 Arc ESU License intended to be linked to regular Azure Arc-enabled servers running in production environments (i.e., normally billed ESU scenarios). This license should be provisioned only for billable cores, not cores that are eligible for free Extended Security Updates.
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- **Billable ESU License.** You must already have provisioned and activated a WS2012 Arc ESU License intended to be linked to regular Azure Arc-enabled servers running in production environments (i.e., normally billed ESU scenarios). This license should be provisioned only for billable cores, not cores that are eligible for free Extended Security Updates, for example, dev/test cores.
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- **Arc-enabled servers.** Onboarded your Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 machines to Azure Arc-enabled servers for the purpose of Dev/Test with Visual Studio subscriptions or Disaster Recovery.
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> Adding these tags to your license will NOT make the license free or reduce the number of license cores that are chargeable. These tags allow you to link your Azure machines to existing licenses that are already configured with payable cores without needing to create any new licenses or add additional cores to your free machines.
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**Example:**
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You have 8 Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard instances, each with 8 physical cores. 6 of these Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines are for production, and 2 of these Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines are eligible for free ESUs through the Visual Studio Dev Test subscription. You should first provision and activate a regular ESU License for Windows Server 2012/R2 that's Standard edition and has 48 physical cores. You should link this regular, production ESU license to your 6 production servers. Next, you should use this existing license, not add any more cores or provision a separate license, and link this license to your 2 non-production Windows Server 2012 R2 standard machines. You should tag the license and the 2 non-production Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines with Name: “ESU Usage” and Value: “WS2012 VISUAL STUDIO DEV TEST”.
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- You have 8 Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard instances, each with 8 physical cores. 6 of these Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines are for production, and 2 of these Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines are eligible for free ESUs through the Visual Studio Dev Test subscription.
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- You should first provision and activate a regular ESU License for Windows Server 2012/R2 that's Standard edition and has 48 physical cores to cover the 6 production machines. You should link this regular, production ESU license to your 6 production servers.
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- Next, you should reuse this existing license, do not add any more cores or provision a separate license, and link this license to your 2 non-production Windows Server 2012 R2 standard machines. You should tag the ESU license and the 2 non-production Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard machines with Name: “ESU Usage” and Value: “WS2012 VISUAL STUDIO DEV TEST”.
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- This will result in an ESU license for 48 cores and you will be billed for those 48 cores, but not charged for the additional 16 cores of the dev test servers that you added to this license, as long as the ESU license and the dev test server resources are tagged appropriately.
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> [!NOTE]
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> You needed a regular production license to start with, and you'll be billed only for the production cores. You did not and should not provision non-production cores in your license.
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> You needed a regular production license to start with, and you'll be billed only for the production cores.
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## Upgrading from Windows Server 2012/2012 R2

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