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.
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.
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.
The January 2015 PUR is re-issued: if you found you couldn’t click anywhere in the document then this is now fixed. http://bit.ly/MSpur.
There’s a change to the pages where you download the PUR, the Product List and other key licensing documents. You’ll now find them all on a single page here: http://bit.ly/1B53SRQ.
There’s no one particular product that stands out this month for grabbing the lion’s share of the changes – they’re distributed over several products, so I’ve taken the liberty of listing them here in the order that I personally find them most interesting – it’s a perk of the job you know!
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter – pages 25/27
Project Server – page 35
SQL 2014 Enterprise Server – page 37
Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Store Server – pages 33/34
Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Standard Commerce Server Core – pages 43/44
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 – page 31
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 – page 38
Office 365 E3 for Nonprofits USLs – page 32 for example
Note that the July 2014 Product Use Rights document was re-issued in early July, so if you downloaded it on the 1st, make sure you get the latest version.
Unsurprisingly, it’s SQL Server that grabs the headlines in the April 2014 PUR, so let’s start with a summary of what’s updated for this product:
There are a couple of changes to the Windows family, where the licensing rules for Windows client and his first cousin Windows Embedded get ever closer:
There are a couple of other updates:
There’s some clarification added to the Disaster Recovery Rights SA benefit – formerly known as Cold Backup Server Rights:
And finally we say a few goodbyes:
If you’ve looked at the January 2014 Product Use Rights document then you could be wondering where you now find information on products such as Yammer or Windows Intune or Office 365. The Online Services Use Rights (OLSUR) document of course. Microsoft have now consolidated all the use rights for the Online Services into this document, and they give you a high level overview of their strategy in this article: http://bit.ly/1d1lzmo.
For a more detailed insight into what you can find in this document look out for a future blog post from us.
If, like me, you were watching for the calendar to tick over to the first of the quarter to see what would be new in the October 2013 PUR, then you may be disappointed in the changes that I’m about to detail. If you’re a slightly more well-balanced person, you’ll be relieved, as there are no major licensing changes revealed to get your head around.
I’ve decided to limit this blog post to the changes that affect us in October 2013 – there are some more changes that will make sense when Microsoft make announcements over the coming months and we’ll tackle those bits and pieces then.
The products that are added and deleted are very much what you’d imagine. We bid a final farewell to System Center Essentials 2010 and TechNet, while Windows 8 goes to 8.1, and System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 go to the new R2 versions with no changes to the licensing detailed. There’s more that’s changed on the CRM front simply because there’s a slightly different set of licences, and you’ll find updated sections both for the on-premise CRM Server 2013 and the new CRM Online offerings.
And then there are a few little bits and bobs that tidy up some loose ends. In particular, there’s confirmation that:
And for this month, that’s about it!
“Knowing which Product Use Rights to use” – a good post on Microsoft’s Volume Licensing Blog. The two key scenarios are covered: which PUR should you use when you a) upgrade software with SA, and b) downgrade software through downgrade rights.