• Always, always, always, contact Microsoft directly for licensing questions. It's a constantly shifting target. Plus you can negotiate deals. There's just no way a random stranger, even ones as informed as the people on this discussion group, can give you better information than what you're going to get from Microsoft. Not for licensing.

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