New Microsoft Products and Services Agreement Licensing Manual; probably the best, no-frills overview of the new MPSA, so worth a read. If you know your Select Plus licensing, start with that in mind as you read about Purchasing Accounts (affiliates), Price Levels (as Select Plus), Points (all Online Services at 1 point across Applications or Servers pool), and Price Level Adjustments (as Select Plus). Significant changes include the all-powerful Microsoft Volume Licensing Center that allows the usual licence management but adds ordering and allocation of Online Services too.
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Information on Microsoft’s Next Generation Volume Licensing Initiative
A late Christmas present! – Lots of information from Microsoft about their Next Generation Volume Licensing initiative. If you read just one of the documents, go for the “Learn more about the MPSA” one. Otherwise here’s the summary:
Microsoft are at the start of their journey to revamp the Volume Licensing programs, and the new Microsoft Products and Services Agreement currently allows Select Plus-esque purchases with two key differences
- both on-premise and Online Services can be purchased (and both count towards the points in a pool), and
- you can’t buy SA just yet.
Microsoft announce their new Volume Licensing program
Microsoft announce their new Volume Licensing program available on 1 December 2013, initially in the UK, US, Canada and Germany. The main benefit to customers will be the ability to buy a combination of on-premise software and Online Services through a single agreement, but there will be a simplified agreement structure and improved web tools to manage software purchases too. http://bit.ly/1hRciGh