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Collapse all- OVERVIEW
- INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT LICENSING
- LICENSING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS
- Licenses for on-premises products
- Perpetual and subscription licenses
- License reassignment rights
- Versions and editions
- Downgrade and down edition rights
- Product use rights
- Software Assurance
- Step-up licenses
- External users
- Assigning server licenses to dedicated and shared hardware
- Using Online Services licenses to access on-premises servers
- WINDOWS SERVER 2022
- Licensing Windows Server 2022
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing Windows Server Containers
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Step-up licenses
- Servicing Channels
- Extended Security Updates
- Licensing for the cloud
- Windows Server Software Subscriptions
- Windows Server 2022 Essentials edition
- Availability of Windows Server 2022 licenses
- WINDOWS SERVER 2022 SERVICES
- SYSTEM CENTER 2022
- Servers
- Licensing System Center 2022 for servers
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- System Center Branches
- Licensing for the cloud
- Step-up licenses
- Required infrastructure products
- Core Infrastructure Server Suites
- Availability of System Center 2022 Server MLs
- Clients
- Servers
- SQL SERVER 2022
- Licensing SQL Server 2022
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing SQL Server with container technology
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- SQL Server Enterprise Server licenses
- Step-up licenses
- Extended Security Updates
- Licensing for the cloud
- Additional Software Assurance benefits
- SQL Server Software Subscriptions
- Additional editions of SQL Server
- Availability of SQL Server 2022 licenses
- BIZTALK SERVER 2020
- Licensing BizTalk Server 2020
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- Step-up licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- BizTalk Server 2020 Developer edition
- Availability of BizTalk Server 2020 licenses
- PROJECT SERVER SUBSCRIPTION EDITION (SE)
- Project Server 2019 and Project Server SE
- Licensing Project Server SE
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Project Server SE licenses
- PROJECT SERVER 2019
- Project Server 2019 and Project Server SE
- Licensing Project Server 2019
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Project Server 2019 licenses
- EXCHANGE SERVER 2019
- Licensing Exchange Server 2019
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Exchange Server 2019 server editions
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- Step-up licenses
- Exchange Online Voice Mail Service
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Availability of Exchange Server 2019 licenses
- SHAREPOINT SERVER SUBSCRIPTION EDITION (SE)
- SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server SE
- Licensing SharePoint Server SE
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of SharePoint Server SE licenses
- SHAREPOINT SERVER 2019
- SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server SE
- Licensing SharePoint Server 2019
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of SharePoint Server 2019 licenses
- SKYPE FOR BUSINESS SERVER 2019
- Licensing Skype for Business Server 2019
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Skype for Business Server 2019 licenses
- THE CAL SUITES
- DYNAMICS 365 SERVER
- Licensing Dynamics 365 Server
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- Step-up licenses
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Additional Software Assurance benefits
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Dynamics 365 Server licenses
- DYNAMICS 365 FOR OPERATIONS SERVER
- Licensing Dynamics 365 for Operations Server
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Licensing for failover
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- Step-up licenses
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Dynamics 365 for Operations Server licenses
- DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL ON-PREMISES
- LICENSING THE DEVELOPER TOOLS
- VISUAL STUDIO 2022
- AZURE DEVOPS SERVER 2022
- Licensing Azure DevOps Server 2022
- Licensing users with Visual Studio subscriptions
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Azure DevOps Server 2022 licenses
- WINDOWS 11 (DEVICE)
- OFFICE LTSC 2021
- VISIO LTSC 2021
- PROJECT 2021
- AZURE HYBRID BENEFIT
- FLEXIBLE VIRTUALIZATION BENEFIT
- LICENSE MOBILITY THROUGH SA
- LICENSING CSP-HOSTER SOLUTIONS
- LICENSE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
- SOFTWARE ASSURANCE
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: EA
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: MPSA
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: SELECT PLUS
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: OPEN PROGRAMS
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: CSP
- BUYING ON-PREMISES PRODUCTS: MCA-E
SA benefits for the Office applications
These benefits are available to customers when they purchase licenses with Software Assurance for the applications products. Note that customers buying 2,000 or more licenses for Microsoft 365 E3/E5 are also entitled to the Workplace Discount Program benefit outside of Software Assurance – see the Online Services section.
These are the benefits that apply to the Office/Visio/Project products purchased through all programs:
- Workplace Discount Program: Office, Visio, Project
- Roaming Rights
- Office for the web and Office Online Server
Here’s a summary of the benefits and the products that they apply to:
