On-premises products

The 3-year Open Value agreement enables a customer to choose at the time of signing if they want to commit to purchasing licenses organization wide or not. We’ll start with looking at how the non Organization-Wide agreement works.

The Open License program retired at the end of December 2021. Licenses for on-premises software purchased through the Open License program are perpetual licenses and thus a customer owns them forever, but they cannot purchase additional licenses through any existing…

Microsoft use the term Open Programs to mean a collection of three licensing agreements aimed at smaller organizations: the Open License program (often just called “Open”), Open Value, and Open Value Subscription agreements.

In July 2014 the retirement of Select Plus was announced and although this process has not yet been completed there has been no new innovation in this licensing program since then, and new customers cannot sign a Select Plus agreement.…

There’s no notion of an MPSA expiring since it’s an evergreen agreement, but if customers have purchased licenses with SA, then the SA will be due for renewal at some point (see the Payment section). In common with all of…

The Microsoft Business Center (MBC) is used by MPSA customers to manage their licenses, download software, access Volume License Keys, and to manage SA benefits.

MPSA customers can choose to commit to buying Software Assurance on all licenses in a particular pool (Applications, Systems or Servers) which is known as Software Assurance Membership or SAM. Sometimes, this is required for a customer to be eligible…

There is no price protection for on-premises products in an MPSA since customers pay for an order at that moment in time at the current pricelist price. The amounts used in the payment schedules described in the previous sections are…

Payment options for MPSA customers are dependent on whether Software Assurance is purchased with licenses: if you buy licenses without SA then the payment is due in full at the time of software installation, and if you buy licenses with…

Points within an MPSA are important since they determine a customer’s price level. A customer needs to buy licenses totaling at least 500 points across all Purchasing Accounts in a particular pool each year to be eligible for an MPSA,…