New high availability and disaster recovery benefits for. All licenses used to run and access your licensed software, such as server licenses, processors licenses, cals, external connector ec licenses, and server management licenses require active software assurance coverage. Software assurance spans microsofts range of software products and services, including the windows operating system, microsoft office, exchange, sql server, and. Software assurance spans a broad range of microsoft software and services products, including the windows operating system, microsoft office, exchange. Entitlement summary commercial and government offerings new version rights licensed products with software assurance coverage can be upgraded to the latest version of that product made available during the covered period. Using data insights and digital online solutions, we work with race directors, league managers and camp directors to create a dynamic online registration process. Participating in this program can help you attract more customers. All licenses that are used to run and access your licensed software require active software assurance coverage. Microsoft assurance software is a program that was introduced in 2002 to help users deploy and support microsoft windows, microsoft office and. To clear the air, weve compiled and answered four of the most common licensing questions organizations ask when looking to transition to office 365. Software assurance is a collection of benefits included with microsoft products. Software assurance by benefit microsoft volume licensing. These changes will take place over two years, starting in february 2020, to give you, our customers time to plan for changes and use their existing benefits.
As a global leader of online registration software, active provides powerful event and race management solutions for over 47,000 organizers and 200,000 activities and events worldwide. Windows virtual desktop access rights vda enables users to access virtual instances of windows in a variety of user scenarios. Azure hybrid benefit for sql server is an azurebased benefit that enables customers to use sql server licenses with software assurance or qualifying subscription licenses to pay a reduced rate base rate on sql database vcorebased options, such as managed instance, vcorebased single database and vcorebased elastic pool. The program covers microsoft technologies and services and includes new product version rights, technical and enduser training, deployment planning, and support.
Sql server licenses without active software assurance sql server licenses without software assurance can be deployed on dedicated hosts if the licenses are purchased prior to 1012019 or added as a trueup under an active enterprise enrollment that was effective prior to 1012019. Payment for license and software assurance may be spread across three equal, annual sums. New features included in the november 2016 public update for sharepoint server 2016 feature pack 1. Create a byol sql server virtual machine from the azure gallery.
And whatever your business, large or small, you rely on an effective and efficient it infrastructure to help drive success. The windows 7 esu will be sold on a perdevice basis and the price will increase each year. What you need to know about the microsoft stepup license at renewal time. Your organizations software assurance benefits administrator receives an access id after clicking activate on the 24x7 benefit in the volume. Among other things, new version rights for software assurance can be one of the more attractive and valuable sa benefits. Active software assurance coverage is required on eligible licenses migrated to oracle cloud infrastructure. Every license covered under software assurance may be upgraded to the newest version. Software assurance spans microsofts range of software products and services, including the windows operating system, microsoft office, exchange, sql server, and many others. You can deploy your mobility licenses on microsoft azure or choose from the list of authorized mobility partners pdf, 1. It appears that customers must have active software assurance in place for all sql server licenses to be moved to vmware cloud on aws. Volume licensing reference guide windows server 2016. These customers will also have access to extended security updates for no additional charges above the cost of running the virtual machine. Microsoft software assurance sa is a microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use microsoft windows, microsoft office, and other server.
How can a customer calculate the esu price of the following situation. Software assurance by product microsoft volume licensing. Microsoft adds sql server disaster recovery use rights. Software assurance spans a broad range of microsoft software and services products, including the windows operating system, microsoft office, exchange, system center, sql server, microsoft azure, and many others. All licenses used to run and access your licensed software, such as server licenses, processors licenses, cals, external connector ec licenses and server management licenses require active software assurance coverage. Active software assurance coverage is required on eligible licenses. Use consulting services to plan new, onpremises and cloudbased deployments. If youre already active in the training voucher program, start at step four 4 below. The primary user of a device covered by active software assurance for windows may access a vdi on a corporateowned windows rt companion device. Newer versions of products should appear automatically in your vlsc account if you have active software assurance. User cal license upgrade vs downgrade ms licensing.
An active red hat subscription gives you continuous access to red hat software as. This branch is supported for use in production environments that want to receive regular quality and feature updates from microsoft. Note that if you keep windows 2019 that you also need to get windows server 2019 cals device andor user, in addition to the rdp cals. Licensing programs eligibility requirements microsoft. For specific terms and a complete list of microsoft products that are eligible for license mobility, refer to the appendix b. This includes server licenses, processor licenses, client access licenses cals, external connector ec licenses, and. Windows 7 esus will be available to all windows 7 professional and windows 7 enterprise customers in volume licensing, with a discount to customers with windows software assurance, windows 10 enterprise or windows 10 education subscriptions. Partner center uses azure active directory for identity and access management. Do microsoft customers really need software assurance. Microsoft software assurance what it is and how it applies to. The application server licenses you want to deploy with an authorized mobility partner have active software assurance coverage. A red hat subscription includes a set of assurances that contribute to your.
If youre new to software assurance training services, follow all the steps below. Eliminating sa on some products can lead to savings of 20, 30 or 40 percent of your annual maintenance spend. Windows 7 enterprise the benefits of having software. Your cals should have downgrade rights to cover older servers. Microsoft has attempted to simplify the licensing of office 365, but the rules can still be confusing, especially when migrating from a perpetualbased licensing model to a subscription. If they do not have active software assurance, then you need to buy new licenses. From 1 july 2010, the primary user of a pc with an office licence has rights to office web apps with office 2010, and get office roaming use rights rur with active software assurance sa. Are you using any of your windows sa benefits that require active software assurance. For more information, see software assurance and the current branch. Contoso pharmaceuticals want to purchase premium assurance so that their sql server deployments are covered with product support for as long as possible. Try sql server 2019 today and create a robust business continuity plan using our industry leading software assurance benefits. Software assurance benefits section in the microsoft product terms.
As an approved software assurance training partner, microsoft compensates you for providing technical training to enterprise customers in exchange for vouchers they get with software assurance. Cold disaster recovery rights are a software assurance sa benefit for qualified server licenses which includes sql server. Software assurance license mobility through sa parter. For more information, see the following microsoft docs articles. The home use program is a software assurance benefit available to microsoft volume licensing customers with active software assurance coverage on their office applications.
How to use or renew your software assurance benefits techsoup. They must have active software assurance on sql server licenses that they want to add premium assurance to 2. Software assurance for volume licensing offers a range of tools and resources to help your company deploy, manage, and maximize your volume licensing purchases. If you dont have an active software assurance contract at the time of enablement, you must turn off the onedrive for business modern user experience. Windows server, the windows desktop operating system, and desktop application products are not included in license mobility through software assurance. The current branch requires an active software assurance agreement or equivalent rights to configuration manager. What is software assurance and what benefits it provides. Sql server 2019 provides a number of improvements for availability, performance, and security along with new capabilities like the integration of hdfs and apache spark with the sql server database engine.
Make sure the partner is a good match for your organizations objectives and deployment plan. Customers who have active software assurance coverage on applicable microsoft products, including microsoft sharepoint and microsoft exchange, are eligible for license mobility. Customers with software assurance can use licence mobility to license both the active sql virtual machine and the passive sql virtual machine with the failover rights as described in volume licensing product terms. Reduce software and services costs with rights to new software releases and costef. Eligible customers can use the azure hybrid benefit available to customers with active software assurance or server subscriptions to obtain discounts on the license of azure virtual machines iaas or azure sql database managed instance paas. Licensing and branches configuration manager microsoft. As outlined in the product list, for any licensed product covered with active sa, youre given the right to upgrade and run the latest version of that product that is made available during the coverage. Software assurance benefits calculated by this tool are an estimate only, and the results generated do not constitute an offer. Licensing microsoft products windows server and microsoft. Any issues with allowing software assurance to expire. Licenses without software assurance will not be granted additional cores to ensure customers are granted all the cores they are entitled to, inventoried environments should include datestamped documentation of servers, processors, and cores for all production hardware on which windows server andor system center is currently installed. Software assurance training voucher satv program in. Simply log in to the vlsc and follow the instructions from our quickstart guide for downloading your product.
By maintaining active red hat subscriptions, customers have access to all. Software upgrades can be obtained online through the vlsc. Customers must have active sa on configuration manager licenses, or equivalent subscription rights, in order to install and use the current branch option of. Failover rights is a software assurance sa benefit. Question regarding premium assurance microsoft community. Determining the required number of core licenses server software licensing for windows server 2016 standard and datacenter editions requires core licenses. Microsoft software assurance support incident submission.
Software assurance for volume licensing includes a range of. It appears that customers must actively leverage the license mobility benefit by complying with the procedure outlined in this microsoft document. If you have a 2 server cluster, failover rights allows you to license the active server, and the license moves with the active server to the other side when it fails over. What are the conditions for purchasing premium assurance. Not every microsoft customer needs software assurance on all of the vendors offerings. A service provider is an organization that provides software services, such as. Effective january 1, 2014, volume licensing customers who have active software assurance on their remote desktop services user cals are entitled to remote desktop services cal extended rights, which allow use of their remote desktop services user cal with software assurance against a windows server running on azure or other service providers shared server environments.
The software assurance benefits calculator is an online tool to calculate estimated software assurance benefits that customers may be entitled to. Extended security updates for sql server and windows. License mobility through software assurance gives customers the ability to deploy certain server application licenses with active software assurance onpremises or with a service provider in the cloud in a shared hardware environment to take advantage of the lowest cost infrastructure for changing business. Software assurance benefits microsoft volume licensing. Faq about esu for windows server 20082008 r2 and sql.