MSDN Subscription - Please help

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After a long and fruitless discussion with Microsoft i gave up. Can anyone anwer this.

"If i do not renew my Visual Studio Professional with MSDN (Renewal) product, do the existing installed products such as Visual Studio and SQL stop working?

Microsoft said, YES, NO and then Might. in that order.

Any experience with this?

THanks
Roddy
 
Well VS is free at the moment, MSDN gives you some added benefits that I forgot about. Not sure about SQL sever, I know product keys for Windows expire after some time.
 
MS have 6 month evaluation copies of SQL server.
If you are using these to run a business on an evaluation copy then that might be a problem
 
@fuzzbox. Not running a business, buy my Dev server is running SQL2014. worried it will suddenly stop working....
When installing, it automatically inserts a product key. i.e. not selecting evaluation version
 
Visual Studio Professional will probably expire because you log in so that it checks the license. You can switch to the Community edition though.

Which version of SQL are you using? The Developer Edition? I'm not sure how that one works but SQL Standard edition should continue working fine I think.
 
It won't stop working.

But if MS finds out that your licensing is not up-to-date you will be in for some fines.
 
After a long and fruitless discussion with Microsoft i gave up. Can anyone anwer this.

"If i do not renew my Visual Studio Professional with MSDN (Renewal) product, do the existing installed products such as Visual Studio and SQL stop working?

Microsoft said, YES, NO and then Might. in that order.

Any experience with this?

THanks
Roddy

Depends on your license. If non volume, then the answer is Yes they will run and be licensed. If it was part of a Volume license, then no, your license ends at the time of your subscription.

As per the 2015 VS and MSDN Whitepaper:

Perpetual Use Rights
MSDN subscriptions purchased through certain channels provide perpetual use rights that allow subscribers to continue using certain software products obtained through an active subscription after the subscription has expired. However, subscribers are not entitled to updates for that software after the subscription has expired, nor do they continue to have access to software or product keys through MSDN Subscriber Downloads or to other subscription services that are a benefit of having an active subscription. Product keys that were acquired while the subscription was active can continue being used until all activations for those keys have been exhausted. If an MSDN subscription is transferred or sold, any perpetual use rights are transferred to the new party and the seller can no longer use the software.
Generally, MSDN subscriptions that do not provide perpetual use rights include:
MSDN subscriptions purchased through Enterprise Agreement Subscription, Open Value Subscription, Campus Agreement, or other “subscription” Volume Licensing programs
MSDN subscriptions offered through the Microsoft Partner Network to competency partners and Visual Studio Professional subscriptions offered to Microsoft Action Pack partners.
In the above cases, subscribers can no longer use any software provided through the MSDN subscription after it expires.

Here -> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13350
 
Nicely done Kosmik.

Thnx, our team just went through this grief now with VS 2015 ( expired month prior to realese :( )

However: the software will continue to work - you will just be using it "illegally" then.

Of course but also as long as no updates sneak in for the software to provide license authentication online.
 
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