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I asked my boss this morning about moving some of our production servers to windows 2012 for example as a starter our AV server Kaspersky runs on windows 2008 and SQL express 08. SQL Express 2016 will not run on windows 2008 so this is what prompted the question, he said no because we need to upgrade our CALs to support windows 2012. <br />
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Why would we need to upgrade our CALs just to run a windows 2012 av server with sql express? Only workstations and terminal servers will be connecting for av def updates and application whitelisting.
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I asked my boss this morning about moving some of our production servers to windows 2012 for example as a starter our AV server Kaspersky runs on windows 2008 and SQL express 08. SQL Express 2016 will not run on windows 2008 so this is what prompted the question, he said no because we need to upgrade our CALs to support windows 2012. 

Why would we need to upgrade our CALs just to run a windows 2012 av server with sql express? Only workstations and terminal servers will be connecting for av def updates and application whitelisting.

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.