Windows Companion Subscription Licences will have the same use rights as if they were Windows Enterprise SA per User Add-on USLs, starting on 1 December 2014.
See page 77 of the October 2014 Product Use Rights document.
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Windows SA per User Coffee Break Video
Windows will be available to license on a per User basis from 1 December 2014.
Find out all about both the Add-on and Full USLs that are coming, by sitting down with our latest “Coffee Break” video – just 10 minutes and all will become clear!
Find the video here: http://bit.ly/LSyoutube.
The Enterprise Cloud Suite is Announced
Microsoft announce the Enterprise Cloud Suite which is BIG news for Enterprise Agreement customers! Essentially, it’s a new suite which allows you to license the desktop platform completely by user.
Office 365 and the Enterprise Mobility Suite cover the traditional Office and CAL Suite components and there’s a brand new Windows per User licence.
Yes, that’s right, Windows per USER. Get an At-a-Glance guide on ECS and some more detail here: http://bit.ly/13umyz1
Windows per User Licensing Announced
Windows per User licensing is announced! There’s now an Add-on which “userfies” an underlying Windows 8.1 Enterprise with SA licence, or a full USL available for a user with a primary work device licensed with Windows 7 or 8 Pro. See the Microsoft page for some more details and the Windows SA per User At-a-Glance guide: http://bit.ly/1qkeeXp.
Project Server 2013 Licensing Guide
If Microsoft Project is your thing then you might find this Project 2013 Licensing Guide from Microsoft useful. It’s got a nice overview of all the different Project licences, although it’s not yet updated for Project Lite.
There are also diagrams showing the licences required in a 3-tier on-premises deployment, a Project Online configuration, and a dev/test environment.
Finally, there’s some useful information about when a Project Server CAL is needed as well as some FAQs.
Get the guide here: http://bit.ly/LSAppSvrs
74-678 Exam Prep Training Course Available
We’re pleased to announce our new 74-678 training course. If you need to pass this exam then this could be just the course for you.
Email paul@licensingschool co.uk if you’re interested in running it in your company, and get the outline here: http://bit.ly/74-678
End of Sales dates for Windows in FPP and OEM
Friday 31st October 2014 sees End of Sales for certain flavours of the Windows client: Windows 8 will no longer be able through the Retail channel, and Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, and Ultimate cease to be available pre-installed.
However, there are no End of Sales dates yet published for Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8 acquired through the OEM channel, which means that these products will be available for at least another year.
See the Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet for all the dates: http://bit.ly/1FUEAsX.
BizTalk 2013 R2 Licensing Datasheet: July 2014 Changes
Changes to this datasheet include amending the rights of the Developer edition so that they match the Enterprise edition, and a new Appendix which covers how customers should transition from the Processor to Core licensing model.
Most notable are instructions for those organisations with active SA who didn’t migrate to BizTalk Server 2013 but are now ready to go to BizTalk Server 2013 R2, since they’re eligible for the special self-inventory terms that would otherwise have expired on 1 April 2014 – see page 7.
Get the datasheet here: http://bit.ly/1we7W05.
Rebranding of Windows Intune to Microsoft Intune
Microsoft announce that Windows Intune will be renamed to Microsoft Intune later in the year when the next major update is released. This makes sense of course since Intune manages both iOS and Android devices as well as Windows ones.
Read the blog post here: http://bitly.com/1z7E6Oh
Microsoft SAM and VL Competencies Updated
The Microsoft SAM and Volume Licensing partner competencies are updated to include the new Exam 74-678: Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations, with a reminder that the 671/672 exams won’t be available after January 2015.
There’s also a new optional exam for the SAM competency – Exam 74-674: Delivering Business Value Planning Services – one of my all time favourite courses to teach! Get the full October 2014 MPN Disclosure Guide here: http://bit.ly/1s94d1X.