Skip to content

Commitment

Orders for Online Services in the Open programs are always for 12 months. However, the 12-month period doesn’t necessarily start immediately as it does in other agreements and programs. Let’s imagine that Copper Feel Fabrics need 5 Office 365 E3…

Read more

Minimums

An Open Value non Organization-Wide agreement may be started with as little as 1 User SL if that User SL is designated as an “Open Minimum”. This means that the license counts as 5 licenses for the purpose of the…

Read more

License type availability

Generally speaking, it’s the Full User SLs for available products that are sold through the Open programs, but there are a couple of the In-cloud Add-on User SLs available such as the Teams Phone Standard User SL. For customers who…

Read more

Product availability

Some of the Online Services products are available through the Open programs, but by no means all, as you can see from the table below. Windows 11 is only available as a device license, and none of the Dynamics 365…

Read more

BUYING ONLINE SERVICES: OPEN PROGRAMS  

We’ll consider the Open License program, and the Open Value and Open Value Subscription agreements in one section here since the Online Services work (just about) the same way in all of them. The Open License program retired at the…

Read more

From SA licenses 

The lack of an equivalent traditional licensing position for the Microsoft 365 Business plans means that there are no From SA licenses available for these plans.

Read more