On-premises products

The Microsoft 365 Admin Center is used by CSP customers to manage their licenses, download software, and to access product keys. Partners can assist customers with these tasks with some limited access through the Partner Center portal.

There is no notion of Software Assurance in CSP, but Software Subscriptions include many of the benefits available to customers buying Windows Server or SQL Server licenses with SA through the Volume Licensing agreements. The following benefits are available with…

There is just a single price level in CSP, and to-customer pricing is entirely decided by the partner.

There is no notion of price protection when buying licenses for software in CSP since prices are taken from the current price list, and then either used for an upfront charge, or split for spread payment options.

Software Subscriptions are available for Windows Server 2025, SQL Server 2022 and, from April 2025, System Center 2025. These licenses are, as you might imagine, subscription licenses and are available for terms of 1 year or 3 years. They are…

Perpetual licenses for software in CSP are paid for in full upfront.

There are no minimum purchase requirements in CSP – a customer may purchase one or many licenses whenever he chooses.

Licenses for on-premises products purchased through the CSP program are perpetual licenses, and Software Assurance is not available at all. Software Subscriptions are only available for Windows Server and SQL Server. This, then, is the summary of the license types…

There are a couple of the traditional software products that are not available to be purchased through CSP and those are the ones where the purchase must include Software Assurance. SA is not available in CSP and so customers can’t…

There are two sorts of licenses for the on-premises products that customers can buy through CSP: licenses without Software Assurance for most of the products (see the Product availability section), and Software Subscriptions for Windows Server and SQL Server.