Tag Archives: Skype for Business Server SE

Subscription Editions added to SPLA

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SE) has long been available, and Microsoft made Exchange Server SE and Skype for Business Server SE generally available in July 2025 through the traditional Volume Licensing agreements. In the VL agreements you always need to have active SA on the Server and CAL licences to use the product, and thus there’s been a question mark over what happens in SPLA, especially since Exchange and Skype for Business come to end of support on 14 October, 2025. Well, the latest updates to the SPUR give us our answer – all three SE products are added for the October 2025 SPUR update.

Find the SPUR website here: https://bit.ly/4q0DmYK.

GA of Exchange Server SE and Skype for Business Server SE editions

Microsoft announce the general availability of the Subscription Editions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, which are the successors to the 2019 editions From a licensing perspective they follow the same rules as for SharePoint Server SE: you need active SA to use the product – or buy the subscription licences – and if the SA lapses, then you retain rights to the 2019 version of the product.

Find the Exchange Server announcement here: https://bit.ly/4noQ0PI, and the Skype for Business Server one here: http://bit.ly/44cZqGC.