These benefits are specific to the microsoft products offered through techsoup and might be different from software assurance benefits obtained through other channels. Active software assurance coverage is required on eligible licenses migrated to oracle cloud infrastructure. You receive a number of training days based on the number of qualifying office andor windows operating system licenses covered with software assurance. Software assurance is only available through volume licensing and is purchased when you buy or renew a volume licensing agreement. As a new vernon college employee, you are now eligible to participate in microsofts software assurance home use program hup. For each product eligible for the home use program for which you are a licensed user with active software assurance coverage, you may order a single copy of that product to. Microsoft starts selling 6 more years of windows server support first phase in a longerterm strategy to convince customers to move to the cloud, analyst argues. A comprehensive program that includes a unique set of technologies, services, and rights to help deploy, manage, and use microsoft products efficiently, software assurance helps keep your business up to date and ready to respond quickly to change and opportunity. Available server editions available cals microsoft dynamics crm 2016 offers three levels of calsessential, basic, and professionaleach of. The new coverage is meant to address a gray area in insurance policies that. With new version rights, you can upgrade each microsoft product license that is covered by active software assurance to the most recent version for no additional cost.
Microsoft office is available free to all current eku studentsfacultystaff on up to 5 devices via their eku microsoft login. Once an satv is assigned to a student, its active for. This license must include active software assurance coverage. Microsoft dynamics crm 2016 onpremises volume licensing guide december 2015 page 9 figure 4. For new product version rights, this means that you can still download eligible new products posted to the vlsc during that final month. You may utilize office roaming use rights when you when you have active software assurance coverage for office, project, andor visio on qualified devices. Software assurance is available to organizations that support as few as five devices. Is there a minimum purchase requirement for windows 7 esu. Faq about esu for windows server 20082008 r2 and sql. A license for the enterprise cal suite with active software assurance coverage includes the rights to exchange online archiving for exchange server, data loss prevention, and exchange online protection. Redeem your microsoft software assurance sa training. Software assurance coverage for the related product pool and a premier support agreement in place. Microsoft software assurance offerings ftp directory listing hp.
The core premise behind sa is to give users the ability to spread payments over several years, while offering free upgrades to newer versions during that time period. Customers who have active software assurance coverage on applicable microsoft products, including microsoft sharepoint and microsoft exchange, are eligible for license mobility. Employees who use the covered licenses at work are eligible to purchase these office applications for use on a personal device during the term of their employment. For assistance with benefits activation, please contact the microsoft. Is software assurance sa required to take advantage of esu. Microsoft software assurance support incident submission. What are the options for sql server customers without software assurance. Product licenses do not expire and are valid for as long as you own the product. Microsoft starts selling premium assurance for sql. Assurance wireless ca lifeline program product guides. If customers purchase extended security updates while software assurance is active, but software assurance lapses before the extended security update coverage period begins, customers will not be able to receive updates. Your rights to run licensed software and manage instances on azure expire.
Yes, software assurance is available to small businesses and organizations with as few as 5 active licenses. For uptodate information on the availability of home use program software, please visit. Not every microsoft customer needs software assurance on all of the vendors offerings. 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. In order to submit a request for email support, your organization must have the required software assurance coverage for server software and related cals. A software assurance benefit that enables you to migrate to the cloud at huge savings. Some benefits of consolidating software assurance may include.
Microsoft home use program virginia state university. Home use program is a software assurance benefit available to microsoft volume licensing customers with active software assurance coverage on their office applications. First year software assurance is compulsory but if you choose not to maintain your software assurance from year to year, a reinstatement fee equal to 20% of the. You can consolidate an expiring program agreements software assurance coverage into an existing active program agreement within 90 days of the expiration date. Software assurance for volume licensing includes a range of benefits that span microsoft software and services. The assurance map may be as simple or as complicated as suits the organization. Microsoft includes two years of software assurance with most volume licensing products it donates through techsoup canada.
To renew your software assurance benefits, request a standalone software assurance product through techsoup up to 90 days before your original benefits expire. Sep 18, 2014 you may subscribe to mdop when you have active software assurance coverage for the windows desktop operating system. You may not sell or transfer this software to anyone else. Recognizing that software security is fundamentally a software engineering issue that must be addressed. Software assurance upgrade benefits for licenses are automatic. The ability to access your training vouchers expires with your software assurance coverage. Active software assurance coverage grand canyon hiker. Appendix b software assurance microsoft volume licensing. Are there any plans to release a separate windows 7 esu sku for csp customers who have active software assurance. Software assurance membership sam is an integrated set of support services and benefits provided to all enterprise agreement ea customers and those select plus license customers who have selected the sam option for one or more product pools on their select plus enrollment or companywide option available under open value. We recommend that you stay in touch with your microsoft reseller or microsoft account manager for news about new products and their availability. The transaction has active software assurance or upgrade advantage coverage during the promotional offer microsoft offers a promotion for 1 license of skype for business server with a purchase of exchange server 2016. The frequently asked questions faqs for the volume.
If the underlying windows software assurance or windows vda is licensed per device, then mdop covers the licensed device. Software assurance frequently asked questions sa faq ms. Premium assurance is an expensive plan even if an organization already has software assurance coverage across its servers and just pays for the annual five percent premium assurance. Do microsoft customers really need software assurance. Customers who have active software assurance coverage on applicable microsoft products, including microsoft. Software assurance customers have rights to the next version of a product as long as their software assurance coverage continues through the month of the availability of the product. Microsoft dynamics customersource microsoft dynamics customersource is an online portal that includes a broad set of product and service support resources for dynamics customers with software assurance coverage. Depending on which agreement your organization has. Technology services technology services little lake. In these example, how do we identify that which is a statement, branch and condition. Microsoft software assurance what it is and how it applies. Microsoft volume licensing microsoft software assurance.
Responses to your email support requests will occur during support team business hours which may be in a different. Customers renewing sa for cals can switch between user and device. Chances are, if you are buying through the open license program, youre eligible to upgrade to sa tiered benefits. We highly recommend that you check this article for the steps on how to availinstall office through microsoft home use program. Software assurance benefits section in the microsoft product terms. Ninety days prior to expiration, your vlsc account owner should receive an email from. Your training voucher benefits expire with your software assurance coverage.
You may utilise these expanded roaming use rights when you carry active software assurance on office 2010, project 2010 or visio 2010. You may continue using hup software while you are under our employment and as long as the corresponding software you use at work has active software assurance coverage. Over the past 10 years since the first ast workshop was held at icse 2006 in shanghai, china, software test automation has developed significantly from merely a means of cost reduction and a tool for efficiency improvement to an essential ingredient of software quality assurance and now plays a central role in software. After you have signed a licensing agreement that includes software assurance, you will need to activate many of your benefits online before you can begin using them. Software assurance coverage expires, may we still go to the training. The existing active microsoft volume licensing program agreement into which the current software assurance coverage consolidates. Extended security updates for sql server and windows. Service request for hotfix support as you would normally do. Technisoft software assurance is not included in the sale price of the product and will be charged to end user by the associated business partner that provided the technisoft software. Software assurance benefits help you take full advantage of your investments in it.
For specific terms and a complete list of microsoft products that are eligible for license mobility, refer to the appendix b. How to decide which renewal is best for your organization. How do we calculate statement coverage, branch coverage. Microsoft office home use program information technology. License mobility through software assurance gives you the ability to deploy certain server applications with active software assurance onpremises or in the cloud, without having to buy additional licenses. Measuring feature coverage with bdds software quality assurance.
You may subscribe to mdop if you have windows software assurance or windows virtual desktop vda subscription. Renewing software assurance coverage for client access licenses cals and client management licenses mls transitioning between user and device cals. Intrada guides clients in the effective use of technology by lowering costs, increasing productivity, building market visibility, and improving their bottom line. This phone support is available for all microsoft servers, windows operating systems, and office system products and editionseven if the specific license requiring support does not have software assurance coverage. Lost my office home and student 2007 microsoft community. See the table below for a summary of benefits provided by products that include software assurance. Save up to 49% on windows server virtual machines vms by paying base compute 2 rates. All active uvawise faculty and staff are eligible to participate in microsofts software assurance home use program hup. For variable workloads, we recommend that customers migrate on azure via payasyougo, which allows for scaling up or down at any time.
We have an extensive network of nurse case mangers nationwide who are experienced in partnering with the carrier, the employer, and the team of medical professionals to provide full case medical case management services to insure the facilitation of a positive outcome for the injured worker. All the licenses are covered with active software assurance sa. You may subscribe to windows csl when you have active software assurance coverage for the windows desktop operating system. Software assurance coverage will be covered under your contracts unlimited online support request. Licensing programs eligibility requirements microsoft. Assurance wireless is not available in all statesareas. With software assurance coverage on the servers, the azure hybrid benefit program lets organizations save up to 55 percent on the cost of running sql server and windows server in azure. For detail on benefit terms and conditions, refer to the microsoft product terms. Eliminating sa on some products can lead to savings. Microsoft software assurance benefits royal discount. You may utilize the necessary use rights and product keys when you have active software assurance coverage for the windows desktop or windows embedded industry operating system.
To qualify for this software assurance benefit, you must have a microsoft server license and all corresponding client access licenses calsif required by the softwareenrolled in active software assurance. What are the coverage dates for the three windows 7 esu skus. You may continue using this hup software while you are under af employment and as long as the software you use at work has active software. Software assurance by product microsoft volume licensing. Windows virtual desktop in azure is licensed via active software assurance on windows 10 enterprise or the microsoft 365 e3e5 subscriptions. Customers must have active sa on configuration manager licenses, or equivalent subscription rights, in order to install and use the current branch option of configuration manager.
Software assurance coverage may not exceed the quantity of perpetual licenses for which software assurance was current at the time of any prior transition. Use of the software under your active windows software assurance coverage is subject to the desktop operating system section and the license terms here. Redeem your microsoft software assurance training vouchers. Active software assurance coverage always expires at the end of a month no matter what day within the month your organization originally signed the agreement. If you choose not to renew your license agreement and continue your software assurance coverage, you may proceed with taking the training course as long as the course date begins within 180 days following the expiration of your software assurance coverage. Does amazon elastic container service ecs support windows containers. Software licenses required software licenses are needed for all devices, be they traditional pcs, thin clients, or blade pcs, etc. Happy is the minimum workflow a customer will do and assume they enter all fields, use defaults when possible and enter all data correctly the first time through. Licensing the core cal suite and enterprise cal suite august 2015 4. Frequently asked questions on lifeline assurance wireless. Email support is available for server products which have the required software assurance coverage for server software and related cals.
Get answers to frequently asked questions about software assurance. You can consolidate an expiring program agreements software assurance coverage into an existing active program. You qualify if you have active software assurance on your onpremises windows server licenses. How to use or renew your software assurance benefits techsoup.
Your software assurance benefits are determined by your volume licensing agreement, such as the enterprise agreement, microsoft products and services agreement mpsa, or open value agreement, and the qualifying license purchases you have with software assurance. Extended security updates are available annually, for a fixed 12month period. While annual fees normally charged as part of an extended support agreement are waived, to receive this benefit you must have sa coverage. Microsoft volume licensing product licensing search. Jul 10, 2017 this section is the 7th consecutive journal special issuesection. For customers who do not have software assurance, the alternative option to get access to extended security updates is to migrate to azure. Microsoft replacing premiere assurance support with new. Software assurance helps boost productivity across your organization with benefits that help you get the most out of your microsoft software including 24x7 support, deployment and business planning services, enduser and technical training, and the latest software releases and unique technologies, all in one costeffective program. Mar 19, 2019 email support is available only for server products and noncritical issues. It is included with some agreements and is an optional purchase with others. Get genuine operating systems do not include software assurance benefits. Software assurance helps boost organizational productivity with 24x7 technical support, deployment planning services, enduser and technical training, exclusive technologies and rights, and the latest microsoft software releases and unique technologiesall in one costeffective. The license terms in this section govern in the case of any conflict with the terms in the desktop operating system section.
How can a customer calculate the esu price of the following situation. Software assurance 4 by license type how to decide which 5 renewal is best for your organization consolidate your back software assurance cover coverage and save money additional back resources cover your software assurance coverage must be renewed every two or three years, depending on your type of volume license agreement. You may use this software only while you remain employed by your current employer and while your license has active software assurance coverage. You are now eligible to participate in microsofts software assurance home use program hup. Microsoft software assurance sa is a microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use microsoft windows, microsoft office, and other server and desktop applications. Service within nationwide coverage area reaching more than 295 million people. Software assurance is a rigorous, lifecycle phaseindependent set of activities which ensure completeness, safety, and reliability of software processes and products. Software assurance coverage is required to take advantage of stepup licensing. Software assurance training vouchers satv microsoft. The home use program is a software assurance benefit available to microsoft volume licensing customers with active software assurance coverage on their office applications. Software assurance benefits are not the same as product licenses. Do i need active software assurance and license mobility benefits to use my.
Consider functions by area such as admin vs regular. May 28, 2008 volume licensing customers can consolidate their software assurance coverage from one or more expiring program agreements into another existing active program agreement. Microsoft software assurance planning services did you know. When a new version of microsoft office is released during the term of your agreement, your licenses are. The servers need to be fully licensed with windows server licenses. Rather than pay full cost for the higherlevel software edition, stepup licensing allows you to pay only the pricing difference. You may only order software for which you are a licensed user at work. For each area, one approach is to divide up according to happy, sad and optional. Sql server licensing mobility without software assurance pica. As active shooter incidents increase, industry addresses. Licensing the core client access license cal suite and.
Continuous software assurance coverage with fewer agreements. The number of phone incidents available to you depends on your software assurance investment. You may utilize office roaming use rights when you have active software assurance coverage for office, project, andor visio on qualified devices. Assurance wireless is brought to you by virgin mobile usa and is a lifeline assistance program supported by the federal universal service fund. The central role of test automation in software quality assurance. Software assurance by benefit microsoft volume licensing. Please give detailed explanations of all 3 examples.
Customers with active software assurance or subscription licences for their servers are eligible to purchase extended security updates onpremises through an ea, eas, sce or ees. Email support is available only for server products and noncritical issues. If you create a training voucher before your software assurance coverage expires, the voucher remains valid for 180 days after the date it was created. Software assurance benefits included with microsoft donations.
Eligibility and areas of availability are subject to. This is accomplished by guaranteeing conformance to all requirements, standards, procedures, and regulations. Windows server operating systems, desktop client operating systems, and desktop applications such as microsoft office are not eligible under license mobility through software assurance. Software assurance benefits microsoft volume licensing.
Additionally, azure courses will no longer be valid for sa voucher use as of february 1, 2020, and the entire satv benefit will be retired january 1, 2022. How to activate your software assurance benefits microsoft. Microsoft software assurance interactive benefits chart. Software assurance benefits can only be renewed before their twoyear term expires not after. Microsoft software assurance sa is a microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use microsoft windows, microsoft office, and other server. Benefits of sql server 2017 with sa software assurance coverage helps customers take full. For information on using this benefit, visit license mobility through software assurance. Eku employees may continue using hup software while employed at eku and as long as the corresponding software used at work has active software assurance coverage. Aug 11, 2016 theres a new insurance market emerging in light of a disturbing reality in todays world active shooter risks.
For each product eligible for the hup for which you are a licensed user with active software assurance coverage, you may order a single copy of that product to install and use on your home computer. Activate the benefit first time only to enable the sa access id for the enrollment this is. Eligibility queryconflict microsoft home use program. However, you will still need to account for azure compute, storage, and networking costs associated with the vdi instances in use through this program. While annual fees normally charged as part of an extended support agreement are waived, to receive this benefit you must have. Volume licensing service center software assurance benefits. As an employee with des, you are eligible to use the microsoft home use program.
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