One of the most valuable Software Assurance benefits available from Microsoft is the cold back-up for disaster recovery licenses.
Customers with Software Assurance (enrolled in a Enterprise Agreement or under a Select Agreement) for qualifying server products and related CALs are eligible for complimentary server licenses for those products for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.
For each qualifying server license (i) a customer has enrolled in SA and (ii) for which the customer has all related CALs (if required by the product) enrolled in SA, the customer will be deemed to have a second server license under which it may deploy the same product on a “cold” back-up server solely for DR purposes during the term of its Software Assurance coverage. Customers’ deployment and use of software under the DR licenses is subject to the terms and conditions of their license agreement.
