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License Mobility through SA
Today customers have a range of IT deployment options: on-premises, Microsoft delivered cloud services, and partner delivered cloud services. Microsoft’s breadth of products & cloud services as well as our extensive partner ecosystem gives us the ability to make our technologies available to customers through any of these models. Microsoft’s customers and partners have asked us to enhance the flexibility of our licensing to support these choices.
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Announcing Licensing Enhancements to Support Cloud Adoption: License Mobility through Software Assurance
As the next step in our Cloud strategy, in March of this year at the Microsoft Hosting Summit, we announced a significant set of enhancements across our customer and Service Provider licensing programs. These enhancements took effect on July 1, 2011.
License Mobility Enhancements
We introduced license mobility that will provide customers the flexibility to deploy certain server applications with active Software Assurance on-premises or in the cloud, without having to buy additional licenses. This includes Exchange Server, Lync Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and Dynamics CRM. This change provides customers with additional hosting flexibility and affordability.
For Service Providers this change eliminates the prior requirement for dedicated hardware and enables improved economies of scale and operating efficiencies.
Service Provider Licensing Enhancements
- New Core Infrastructure Suite in SPLA that will make licensing the infrastructure at the Service Provider’s datacenter more affordable. This suite will include Windows Server Datacenter, System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) and Forefront Endpoint Protection.
- Reduced pricing for certain Subscriber Access Licenses for Software Assurance (“SALs for SA”) that will make shared application hosting more affordable for customers with active Software Assurance. Additionally, we will expand the SALs for SA SKUs to cover Enterprise SAL licenses for Exchange Server, Lync Server and SharePoint Server.
- Removal of the Windows Server Outsourcer SKUs and associated price point which will result in a lower single price offering across all Service Provider workloads.
Resources
Customer and partner ready presentations with speaker notes and associated FAQs are posted here and here .
- License Mobility Through Microsoft Software Assurance Overview
- License Mobility Partner Program Guide
- Partner FAQ License Mobility through Software Assurance
- License Mobility-Through Software Assurance
- Steps for Partners
- Authorized Mobility Partners list
- PUR (Product Use Rights)
- Steps for Customers
- License Mobility through Software Assurance Customer Program Guide