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Overview of the Changes to the August 2013 Volume Licensing Product List

This month it’s all about the new Office 365 Add-on SKUs available for customers to purchase through their Enterprise Agreements, and you’ll find the following offerings added to the Product List:

  • Exchange Online Plan 1 Add-on (User SL)
  • Lync Online Plan 1 Add-on (User SL)
  • SharePoint Online Plan 1 Add-on (User SL)
  • SharePoint Online Plan 1 with Yammer Add-on (User SL)
  • Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, E4 Add-on (User SL)
  • Office 365 Enterprise E3, E4 without Office Pro Plus Add-on (User SL)
  • Office 365 Government G1, G3, G4 Add-on (User SL)
  • Office 365 Government G3, G4 without Office Pro Plus Add-on (User SL)

These Add-on USLs are all listed as Additional Products and are purchased in addition to a Qualifying Licence (or Licences) – which must have active SA of course. Luckily there’s a handy table on page 103 that shows what Add-ons a customers may acquire if they own Core CAL/Enterprise CAL with, or without, Office Professional Plus licences. This page turns up further treasures as some useful notes then follow on purchase eligibility, purchase restrictions, licence assignment, use rights, and true ups.

If you want to know more about these new offerings and the benefits they’ll give customers, then check back for our next post when we’ll cover this in more detail.

Licensing the Internet of Things

Have you been wondering how to license the Internet of Things? This is a good post with lots of links to useful, related articles: http://bit.ly/1c9eZiE

MLSS link has changed

Time to refresh your MLSS exams? The site’s undergone some maintenance and you may have an old link saved – make sure you using the new link at http://getlicensingready.com

Windows 8 Embedded

Want to find out more about the Windows Embedded 8 offerings that were made available on 1 July 2013? This useful FAQ covers the offerings available to enterprises through Volume Licensing: http://bit.ly/13Aou5i

Overview of Office Pro Plus v Office 2013

This is a useful article explaining what Office ProPlus is and how it compares to other versions of Office 2013, including how it’s licensed and deployed: http://bit.ly/17xAvsp

Retirement of TechNet benefits

TechNet Subscriptions won’t be available after 31 August, 2013. This FAQ covers what happens to Volume Licensing customers: http://bit.ly/18iqr7z

Useful article on changes to Azure-hosted desktops licensing

There have been some changes to the licensing for Windows Azure so that RDS can now be used to host session-based desktops on Windows Azure VMs. Mary Jo Foley gives a nice overview of the changes: http://zd.net/12X9CKV

Really good Azure Licensing FAQ page

Not got into Windows Azure Virtual Machine licensing yet? Have a look at this great FAQ page and much more will become clear. Some good questions on Windows Server, SQL and RDS licensing: http://bit.ly/14eghFM

Introduction of OWA for iPad and iPhone

Outlook Web Apps are now available for iPhone and iPad users who have an Office 365 subscription. The announcement is here: http://bit.ly/12UGvb8