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30 years ago, customers bought their server licenses with, or without, Software Assurance through a Volume Licensing agreement and then deployed the products on their own on-premises servers. They acquired device licenses for Windows and Office in the same way…

From a licensing perspective, customers need to either purchase Software Subscriptions through a CSP partner to license these solutions, or to bring licenses with active Software Assurance acquired through any Volume Licensing agreement. In April 2023, Microsoft adjusted the licensing…

A CSP-Hoster partner can access software to build solutions for customers who then either bring their own licenses to license the solution, or purchase licenses from the partner. When a customer purchases licenses from a partner to license a pre-built…

Microsoft introduced the CSP-Hoster program in October 2022 to enable hosting partners to build and manage solutions based on Microsoft software. A CSP-Hoster partner is both a SPLA partner and a Direct CSP partner who has signed the CSP-Hoster Authorization.…

SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Core licenses with Software Assurance are eligible for both the License Mobility through SA benefit AND the Azure Hybrid Benefit. This gives a bit of an overlap as far as Azure is concerned since both…

When eligible licenses are assigned to eligible hardware there is a process that needs to be followed. There’s a form called the License Verification Form which must be completed within 10 days of deployment, and this confirms that the licenses…

Licenses may be used either on-premises or with virtual machines running on the authorized hardware detailed in the Hardware options section. The licensing rules (for the most part) don’t change and for the products licensed with the Server/CAL licensing model,…

Licenses with active Software Assurance acquired through any Volume Licensing agreement for the following products include this benefit: System Center 2025 SQL Server 2022 BizTalk Server 2020 Project Server SE Exchange Server 2019 SharePoint Server SE Skype for Business 2019…

Customers can choose to use their licenses in Azure, and the following Azure options are permitted: Azure multi-tenant servers Azure Dedicated Host Alternatively, customers can choose to use a partner’s hardware, and the following options are supported: Shared hardware managed…

License Mobility through SA is a Software Assurance benefit, and it allows customers to use their eligible server application licenses on specific third-party hardware.