Licence Reservation is a great way for EA customers to place mid-term orders for Online Services without a PO. If the prices are locked for the services, great, otherwise the QuickStart facility is there to order services before the price is locked.
This is a useful page on some of the most frequently asked questions on Licence Reservation and QuickStart: http://bit.ly/1xrQg1W.
Our final tip for a successful 74-678 Christmas – it’s been fun! Continue your exam preparation with all of our resources here: http://bit.ly/74-678 and sign up to keep informed as we release further tools and information to help you towards exam success. Merry Christmas!
There are a number of changes coming to Visual Studio licensing – most from 1 Jan 2015 – and this excellent Microsoft blog takes you through the detail in a delightfully readable way: http://bit.ly/13vrp29.
If that still hasn’t tempted you then here’s the overview: there’s a reduction in licences required for release management, test execution rights are added to Visual Studio Online Basic and the Team Foundation Server CAL, prices are reduced for cloud load testing and the VS Online build service, spending caps can be applied for load testing and build, and the ten user limit is removed for Visual Studio Online Professional. It’s all go in the Visual Studio world!
Tip 23 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. There are some new question types in the exam – our Sample Exam, and Exam Preparation Guide (ready in January!) give you some examples of these question types so that there are no surprises in the exam.
An early Christmas present for you – an updated (December 2014) MPSA Licensing Manual.
There aren’t huge changes – the language for the Home Use Program and System Center Global Service Monitor has been changed to match that in the November 2014 Product List and you can see our corresponding blog post if you need to know the details (http://wp.me/p3K5IZ-bd).
Then there’s some clarification added on page 5 to make it really clear that a product must be ordered in the month that it is first used, and there’s streamlining of the text used for CustomerSource throughout.
Finally, on page 16, the Companion Subscription Licence is removed from the list of licences a customer may have to purchase MDOP. Get the updated document here: http://bit.ly/1zKwj7m.
Tip 22 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you know the ways that an organisation can buy Office 365 in their Platform EA – either via a transition to a full USL or an Add-on.
Tip 21 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Learn what’s in the Core and Enterprise CAL Suites – and perhaps more importantly, learn what’s NOT in them – the RDS CAL, Lync Plus CAL, and SQL CAL are the ones to remember.
Tip 20 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t forget the SMB programs! Although it’s an exam focussed on large organisations, you still need to be able to recommend the right SMB Volume Licensing program for the odd customer.
Tip 19 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Knowledge of VDI licensing is a must – be confident in how different devices are licensed for use in different locations by different users.
Tip 18 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. You’re going to need to know which SA benefits need activating in VLSC so it’s time to meet another friend – Theo. He’ll help you to remember Training Vouchers, Home Use Program, E-Learning and the Office MLP.