Glossary
Terms defined in this Glossary apply unless otherwise defined in product specific terms.
Attributes
Attributes are identified in the table in each Product Entry, and indicate rights or conditions applicable to acquisition or use of the Products.
Access License Requirement: Indicates whether or not a Server or Desktop Application Product requires SALs for access by users and devices or Managed OSEs.
Additional Software: Software that Customer is permitted to use on any device in conjunction with its use of server software.
Client Software: Indicates components of a Product that are licensed as Client Software, as that term is defined in Customer’s SPLA.
Date Available: The date a Product is first available, designated as month/year.
DCP Eligible: Permits Customer to use Data Center Provider, as that term is defined in this SPUR.
Disaster Recovery: Rights available to Customer to use software for conditional disaster recovery purposes; refer to Universal License Terms, Disaster Recovery, for details.
Down Editions: Permitted lower editions corresponding to specified higher editions. Customer may use the permitted lower edition in place of a licensed higher-level edition, as permitted in the Universal License Terms.
Fail-Over Rights: Permits Customer to run passive fail-over Instances of the Product in conjunction with software running on the Licensed Server, in anticipation of a fail-over event. Passive fail-over Instances may be run in either a separate OSE on the Licensed Server or on a different Server dedicated to Customer’s use. Fail-Over Rights apply only if the number of Licenses that otherwise would be required to run the passive fail-over Instances does not exceed the number of Licenses required to run the corresponding production Instances.
Included Technologies: Indicates other Microsoft components included in a Product; refer to the Included Technologies section of Universal License Terms for details.
License Mobility: Permits License reassignment from one of Customer’s Servers to another one of Customer’s Servers in the same Server Farm during the same calendar month.
License Terms: Terms and conditions governing deployment and use of a Product.
Prerequisite: Indicates that certain additional conditions must be met in order to purchase Licenses for the Product.
Prior Version: Earlier versions of Product.
Notices: Identifies the notices applicable for a Product; refer to the Notices section of the Universal License Terms for details.
Product-Specific License Terms: Indicates that Product-Specific terms and conditions govern deployment and use of the Product.
Definitions
Capitalized terms used but not defined in the SPUR will have the definition provided in the SPLA. The following definitions also apply:
Client OSE means an OSE running a client operating system.
Core Factor means a numerical value associated with a specific Physical Processor for purposes of determining the number of Licenses required to license all of the Physical Cores on a Server.
Data Center Provider means an entity that (1) provides Software Services, usually infrastructure services, to another Services Provider, using Products licensed from Microsoft through the entity’s own SPLA; and (2) except as expressly permitted in this SPUR, is not a Listed Provider.
ERP Solution means the components of the software that control Customer’s End user’s users and financial reporting units.
External Users means users that are not either Customer’s End User’s or its Affiliates’ employees, or its or its affiliates’ onsite contractors or onsite agents.
Hardware Thread means either a Physical Cores or a hyper-thread in a Physical Processor.
Host Fabric means a collection of Physical OSE and Virtual OSEs that are configured and operated as a unit to provide virtualization, networking, management and file services.
Instance means an image of software that is created by executing the software’s setup or install procedure or by duplicating an existing Instance.
License means the right to download, install, access and use a Product.
Licensed Device means a single physical hardware system to which a License is assigned. For purposes of this definition, a hardware partition or blade is considered to be a separate device.
Licensed Server means a single Server to which a License is assigned. For purposes of this definition, a hardware partition or blade is considered to be a separate Server.
Licensed User means the single person to whom a License is assigned.
Listed Provider means any entity identified by Microsoft at https://www.aka.ms/listedproviders or a successor site, as may be updated from time to time.
Manage OSE means to solicit or receive data about, configure, or give instructions to the hardware or software that is directly or indirectly associated with the OSE. It does not include discovering the presence of a device or OSE.
Operating System Environment (OSE) means all or part of an operating system Instance, or all or part of a virtual (or otherwise emulated) operating system Instance which enables separate machine identity (primary computer name or similar unique identifier) or separate administrative rights, and instances of applications, if any, configured to run on the operating system Instance or parts identified above. A physical hardware system can have one Physical OSE and/or one or more Virtual OSE.
Outsourcing Company means a third party that (1) performs data center management services or installation services for Customer; (2) has an active Microsoft partner identification number; and (3) except as expressly permitted in this SPLA, is not a Listed Provider.
Physical Core means a core in a Physical Processor.
Physical OSE means an OSE that is configured to run directly on a physical hardware system. The operating system Instance used to run hardware virtualization software or to provide hardware virtualization services is considered part of the Physical OSE.
Physical Processor means a processor in a physical hardware system.
Running Instance means an Instance of software that is loaded into memory and for which one or more instructions have been executed. (Customer “Runs an Instance” of software by loading it into memory and executing one or more of its instructions.) Once running, an Instance is considered to be running (whether or not its instructions continue to execute) until it is removed from memory.
SAL means Subscriber Access License, which may be assigned by user or device, as appropriate. A user SAL allows access to the corresponding software from any device by one user or management of any Client OSE used by one user. A device SAL allows access to the corresponding software from one device by any user. One OSE SAL permits management of one OSE accessed by any user. A Student SAL may be assigned to Qualified Educational End Users as defined in the Qualified Educational Customer Addendum.
SALs for SA means SALs that may be acquired and assigned to users who have also been assigned a qualifying Client Access License (or CAL) with active Software Assurance (or SA) acquired under a Microsoft Volume Licensing Program or who uses a device to which a qualifying Device CAL with SA has been assigned. The right to assign a SAL for SA to a user or device expires when the SA for the qualifying CAL expires. SALs for SA may only be reassigned, and must be reassigned, when and as the qualifying CAL is reassigned.
Server means a physical hardware system capable of running server software.
Server Farm means a single data center or two data centers each physically located either in time zones not more than four hours apart, and/or within the European Union (EU) and/or European Free Trade Association (EFTA). A data center can be moved from one Server Farm to another, but not on a short-term basis.
Suite means a Product that is comprised of components that are also licensed separately. A Suite is licensed under a single License that is assigned to a single user or device, and allows use of all of its components on the single device or by a single user to which it is assigned. The components of the Suite may not be separated and used on separate devices or by separate users.
Virtual Core means the unit of processing power in a virtual hardware system. A Virtual Core is the virtual representation of one or more Hardware Threads.
Virtual OSE means an OSE that is configured to run on a virtual hardware system.
Windows Server Container with Hyper-V isolation (formerly known as, Hyper-V Container) is a container technology in Windows Server which utilizes a virtual operating system environment to host one or more Windows Server Container(s). Each Hyper-V isolation instance used to host one or more Windows Server Container is considered one virtual operating system environment.
Windows Server Container without Hyper-V isolation (formerly known as Windows Server Container) is a feature of Windows Server software.
Windows Software Components means components of Windows software, including Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Data Access Components, PowerShell software and certain .dlls related to Microsoft Build, Windows Identity Foundation, Windows Library for JAVAScript, Debghelp.dll, and Web Deploy technologies.