Customers with Software Assurance on their server licences can opt to deploy server workloads to a third party’s shared hardware through the Licence Mobility through Software Assurance benefit. These third parties have a special name – Authorised Mobility Partners – and there’s an official list of them which you can find here, updated for January 2015: http://bit.ly/1fXtA1m. If you’re interested, the document now runs to 60 pages (with about 35 partners per page) – up from 49 pages last year.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Pre-Order Price for 74-678 Exam Prep Guide
The manufacturer’s proof for the print version of our 74-678 Exam Preparation Guide has been signed off! There’s a special introductory price of £15 + P&P available for all orders placed before Sunday 15th February 2015. Delivery dates will be from 6th February 2015. Get your copy here: http://licensingschool.co.uk/shop.
Enterprise Cloud Suite VL Brief
There’s a brand new (January 2015) Volume Licensing Brief for the almost-as-new (December 2014) Enterprise Cloud Suite. It’s a useful document with a good overview of what ECS is and how you acquire it, five customer scenarios, and a page of FAQs. Get the document here: http://bit.ly/1EeYjnV.
Updates to Get Licensing Ready
Some exciting updates to the Get Licensing Ready site! First of all, there’s a new track for you to demonstrate your proficiency in the Enterprise Cloud Suite with three exams to take and pass. Then there’s an overhaul of the whole look and feel of the site so that it’s easier to see what tracks are available and whether your certifications are still valid. Head off to https://getlicensingready.com to check you’re all up-to-date with your licensing knowledge.
Exam 74-678 Preparation Guide – Kindle edition
Our book that helps you pass the 74-678 exam has already got some 5 star reviews on Amazon, and don’t forget that you don’t need an actual Kindle to read it – you can access it on your PC or via apps on your tablet of choice.
If you’re working towards this exam, get your copy here: http://bit.ly/74-678-US-Kindle.
Updated Government Eligibility documents (Nov 2014)
The Government Eligibility Definition documents were updated in November 2014. The last paragraph is changed, removing the blanket requirement for 15,000 desktops or 75,000 points per product pool and instead referring organisations to their particular volume licensing agreement which may contain additional eligibility requirements.
Get the updated documents here: http://bit.ly/1B5LbQZ.
Enterprise Cloud Suite handouts from GLR
If you’re a fan of the Get Licensing Ready handouts – and who doesn’t love these one pagers on all aspects of Microsoft licensing?! – then you can get a preview of the new handouts for the Enterprise Cloud Suite.
New exams will come to Get Licensing Ready soon, but the handouts are available here right now: http://bit.ly/GLRhandouts.
Online Services Suites
If you want to know what Online Services are included in which plans then this table on page 25 of the January 2015 Online Services Terms document is jolly useful.
You can see, for example, which plans include Yammer Enterprise (K1 but none of the Government offerings) or Parature Enterprise (CRM Online Enterprise). Get the document here: http://bit.ly/MSpur.
74-678 Sample Exam Improvements
We’ve made some changes to our 74-678 Sample Exam: you said you wanted more feedback as to what you needed to work on after taking the exam so now you get that information along with your final score.
Find the Sample Exam and our other resources to help you to prepare to take the 74-678 exam here: http://bit.ly/74-678.
January 2015 – Online Services Terms (OST) re-issued
The January 2015 Online Services Terms document is re-issued: if you found you couldn’t click anywhere in the document then this is now fixed. http://bit.ly/MSpur.