System Center

No Copying or Distributing Data Sets – All Editions

Customer may not copy or distribute any data set (or any portion of a data set) included in the software.

No Copying or Distributing Data Sets – All Editions

Customer may not copy or distribute any data set (or any portion of a data set) included in the software.

License Waivers – All editions

Customer does not need core Licenses or SALs for:

• any OSEs in which there are no Running Instances of software,
• any of Customer’s network infrastructure devices functioning only for the purpose of transmitting network data and not running Windows Server,
• conversion of OSEs from Physical OSE to Virtual OSE, or
• any devices solely monitored or managed for the status of hardware components with respect to system temperature, fan speed, power on/off, system reset, or CPU availability.

Additional Terms for System Center Datacenter and Standard

Customer may Manage Licensed Servers using System Center Endpoint Protection, subject to the License Model terms.

Windows Server Containers without Hyper-V Isolation

Customer may Manage any number of OSEs instantiated as Windows Server Containers without Hyper-V isolation on the Licensed Server.

Additional Terms for System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Orchestrator and System Center Service Manager

Customer must assign Client OSE SALs to devices shared by one or more users, unless all of the users are assigned Client User SALs.

Client Software

System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Orchestrator, System Center Service Manager and System Center Configuration Manager 1606

If the product includes any of the following components, such components are considered Client Software for that product.

System Center 2025 Datacenter and Standard

Per Core (Management)

Server Management Licenses (per core)

1. Customer may use the software on any Server to Manage OSEs on a Licensed Server, provided it acquires sufficient Server licenses as described below.
2. The number of Licenses required equals the number of Physical Cores on the Licensed Server, subject to a minimum of 8 Licenses per Physical Processor.
3. Standard edition

• Standard edition permits use of the software to Manage up to one OSE on the Licensed Server.
• Standard edition permits Management of the Physical OSE on the Licensed Server (in addition to one Virtual OSE), if the Physical OSE is used solely to host and Manage the Virtual OSE.
• Customer may assign additional Standard edition Licenses to the Licensed Server equal to the number specified in 2 above and Manage one additional OSE on the Licensed Server.

1. Datacenter edition permits use of the server software to Manage any number of OSEs on the Licensed Server.
2. OSEs running Server operating systems require Server Management Licenses.
3. Customer may use the software to Manage OSEs running server operating systems only.

Subscriber Access Licenses (SALs) for Management Servers

Access License

1. Provided it acquires one or more SALs, Customer may use any number of Running Instances of the software to Manage OSEs on Licensed Devices or devices used by Licensed Users.
2. Customer must acquire a SAL for each OSE or each user of OSEs Customer uses the software to Manage.
3. SALs do not permit Management of any OSE running a server operating system.

Server Software Access