If you’re new to Microsoft licensing then you may find this just-released introductory guide from Microsoft useful. It goes through some of the licensing basics (what is a licence, what is SA etc) and introduces the new Product Terms document. Then you meet Wendy, the Director of IT for Trey Research, and look at the projects she’s working on and see what licences she’s going to need. It’s a different way of introducing licensing and worth a look through: http://bit.ly/1SJDo4F.
Tag Archives: Product Terms
August 2015 Enterprise CAL Suite Changes
There are two changes to the Enterprise CAL Suite from 1 August 2015.
Firstly, Advanced Threat Analytics is added and is, in fact, added to all the Enterprise CAL Bridges and the Enterprise Mobility Suite too (see page 70 of the August 2015 Product Terms).
Secondly, the System Center Client Management Suite is “removed” – in quotes because the rights to use it will be included in the Enterprise CAL Suite and ECAL Bridge for Office 365 through 31 December, 2016 (page 86).
Due to these changes there are also August 2015 updates to two Volume Licensing Briefs:
- “Base and Additive CALs” (http://bit.ly/1bQsSCV) and
- “Licensing the Core and Enterprise CAL Suites” (http://bit.ly/J3P8NJ).
Both of these briefs include the amendments noted above along with Skype for Business Server CALs replacing Lync CALs, and the second document has a jolly nice definition of Advanced Threat Analytics if that’s a new product for you.
Microsoft explains the Product Terms
From 1st July the Product List and the PUR are combined into one document – the Product Terms.
Read Microsoft’s blog post as they explain the benefits of this new consolidated monthly document: http://bit.ly/1T7ZBGs.
Product List and PUR Combined
There’s big Volume Licensing news this 1st of July – the Product List and the Product Use Rights (PUR) documents are combined into one document called the Product Terms, which will be updated monthly.
There’s an FAQ on this new document here: http://bit.ly/1RS3gFP and an overview video towards the bottom of this page, where you can also download the document: http://bit.ly/MSvlterms.
We’ll do a more detailed blog post soon highlighting some of the important changes.