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The components of the CAL Suites are updated to included Skype for Business Server CALs (page 19) and all the information on upgrades and licence grants for customers with Lync SA are removed and a reference is added to the April 2014 Product List (page 28).<\/p>\n<p>Then there are some changes for government customers and these include the introduction of government-specific SKUs for the Enterprise Cloud Suite, Project Online, Project Lite, Project Pro for Office 365, Visio Pro for Office 365, and Office 365 Extra File Storage (pages 47, 55, 61). In addition, the Product List is updated to show more clearly which services are available under the US Government Community Cloud program &#8211; look out for a &#8220;UC&#8221; cell identifier \u2013 and, in particular, ECS is now available under GCC (page 47).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are a couple of Education-specific SKUs added for Dynamics Marketing and Social Engagement (page 52).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren\u2019t many changes to the Product List this month with the main amendments falling into two key areas. The first is the renaming of Lync Server 2013 to Skype for Business Server 2015 and that\u2019s happened throughout the document. 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