On-premises products

Enterprise Products and Additional Products that are on the initial order for an Enterprise Enrollment are paid for annually. If it’s a brand-new Enterprise Enrollment then, for each product, a customer pays a third of the license cost and a…

Once the Enterprise Products requirement has been met for an Enterprise Enrollment, customers can also choose to purchase licenses for all of the other available on-premises products through their enrollment. These products (Windows Server 2025 Core licenses, Visio LTSC 2024…

There are four different price levels available for an Enterprise Enrollment customer, with discounts increasing between the levels. A customer’s price level depends on the number of Qualified Devices or Users that they have, as shown below, and is set…

An Enterprise Enrollment for the on-premises products requires a customer to commit to the desktop products – they must count all the Qualified Devices or Qualified Users in their organization, and then choose an Enterprise Product that they are prepared…

Licenses for on-premises products purchased through the Enterprise Enrollment are perpetual licenses, and Software Assurance is a mandatory purchase, and so these are the license types available:

Licenses for the vast majority of on-premises products are available through an Enterprise Enrollment. Exceptions include: License-only offers such as Windows 11 Pro, Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024, or Visual Studio Professional 2022 Individual components of the Core CAL Suite…

An Enterprise Enrollment is aimed at customers with more than 500 devices who are prepared to make a commitment to the desktop products.

The Enterprise Agreement is aimed at larger customers who are prepared to make a commitment when buying the on-premises products through one of three enrollments that sit under the EA. One of the good things about an Enterprise Agreement, from…

The benefits in this category (CustomerSource and 24x7 Problem Resolution Support) have been retired over the years due to the availability of public resources like Microsoft Learn which gives access to technical documentation, hands-on training and certifications.

These SA benefits allow an organization flexibility to use their licenses in Azure and sometimes in a partner’s infrastructure. Some of these benefits are available to customers buying Software Subscriptions for Windows Server and SQL Server outside of Software Assurance.…