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Partners can add and reduce licenses to an existing Subscription at any time. If the original order for The Papaya Hire Company was for 25 Office 365 E3 licenses and they want another 5 licenses in the middle of the…

When a partner orders User SLs for a customer they set up a Subscription for that Online Service. This is essentially a container to which they add licenses. So, if The Papaya Hire Company want 25 Office 365 E3 licenses…

There is no minimum order in CSP, a partner may order just one User SL if that’s all that’s required for a customer. Don’t take this to mean that CSP is only aimed at smaller businesses, this rule is just…

The main license types for the Online Services available through CSP are Full User SLs and In-cloud Add-on User SLs. The To-cloud Add-on and From SA User SLs are mainly a purchasing mechanism for Enterprise Enrollment customers, although some From…

Just about all of the Online Services are available in CSP. The small exceptions include Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Device SLs (only available in the EA) and Microsoft Relationship Sales User SLs (also only available in the EA):

The Cloud Solution Provider program was launched in 2016 to enable partners to sell Office 365 either as standalone licenses or as part of a partner solution. The terms of the program meant that partners were free to set the…

The rules for buying licenses for Online Services are different in each of the Volume Licensing agreements and in CSP, so do check out the relevant sections for full details.

The typical commitment to any Online Services license is for 12 months, even though all pricing is monthly. The first exception to this is the Enterprise Agreement where the commitment can be up to the next anniversary, and the second…

With the Dynamics 365 products there are a couple of further types of Online Services licenses. Tenant licenses A tenant license is a single license that is purchased for a tenant and enables the required functionality for the whole of…

Many of the Online Services User SLs also include rights to access a licensed on-premises server. For example, an Office 365 E3 User SL includes the same rights as an Exchange Standard and Enterprise CAL, a SharePoint Standard and Enterprise…