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Commercial customers can now buy the following SKUs through their agreements, with Government and Academic customers having access to an only very slightly different set:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office 365 Plans E1 and E3<\/li>\n<li>Office 365 ProPlus<\/li>\n<li>Exchange Online Plan 1<\/li>\n<li>Exchange Online Protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And leaving to last the fastest growing set of services, namely Azure. Just as an aside, if you\u2019d searched for \u201cAzure\u201d in the September 2012 Product List you\u2019d have found 28 instances \u2013 a search in this month\u2019s yields 112 \u2013 an impressive year-on-year growth!<\/p>\n<p>This month sees the addition of the Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management Services User Subscription Licence (and it\u2019s no better abbreviated to a WAADRMS USL is it?!) This licenses (of course) access to the Azure Active Directory Rights Management Service.\u00a0 There\u2019s further, useful information in the July 2013 PUR where we\u2019re told on pages 26\/28 that this USL will also license users for on-premise Rights Management through Windows Server 2012. On a related note, there\u2019s also confirmation on these pages and on page 86 that Office 365 E3 and E4 USLs include access to Rights Management both on-premise (Windows Server 2012 ADRMS) and in the cloud (Windows Azure ADRMS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month we bid a fond farewell to a few products and, appropriately for this back-to-school time of year, say \u201coooh, aren\u2019t you growing fast?\u201d to others. 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