Welcome to the latest licensing updates from your DXC Software Licensing team.
Users licensed with Windows E5, Microsoft 365 E5, or Microsoft 365 E5 Security SLs through an Enterprise Agreement or Enterprise Agreement Subscription as of January 14, 2020 (“Qualified Users”) may use up to five simultaneous devices to run a local OSE covered by Windows 7 ESU for 2020 or access virtual OSEs covered by Windows 7 ESU for 2020 without the need for a Windows 7 ESU license. Customer may acquire Windows 7 ESU 2021 & 2022 and Windows 7 ESU 2021 & 2022 for Microsoft 365 licenses for such devices without the need to acquire the 2020 ESU license if the devices were used solely by Qualified Users for the duration of the ESU 2020 coverage period. These devices must be assigned ESU licenses for all respective years if used by any users not currently licensed with Windows E5, Microsoft 365 E5, or Microsoft 365 E5 Security SLs.
Customers may acquire a promotional license to access and use Azure Virtual Desktop per user access licenses for a promotional monthly access cost of $0 for their use between July 14 to December 31, 2021. This Azure Virtual Desktop per user access pricing promotion is available only to a customer’s use of Azure Virtual Desktop per user access licenses to serve Azure Virtual Desktop customer solutions to third parties on Azure.
This discount does not apply to any costs arising from a customer’s general Azure consumption, including from their use of Azure Virtual Desktop per user access licenses. This promotion excludes use of Azure Virtual Desktop per user access for a customer’s internal purposes. Customers to be charged for their access to Azure Virtual Desktop per user access starting January 1, 2022, at then-current rates.
EA, EAS, and Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES, A3-only) customers with paid subscriptions that include a Teams SKU may acquire free Audio Conferencing licenses until the end of their enrollment (up to 3 years). This promotion requires at least 20% Teams meetings adoption within the first 6 months of acquiring the free licenses to maintain free Audio Conferencing. Teams meeting adoption is calculated as Monthly Active Users divided by Total Paid Teams Licenses.
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers with paid subscriptions that include a Teams SKU may acquire free Audio Conferencing licenses for up to 12 months by visiting their admin portal.
This offer is available only for net new Audio Conferencing seats (defined as seats incremental to existing seats as of August 1, 2020), is valid until May 31, 2022 and excludes users accessing Teams via a trial offer.
MDE P1 (previously MDE Lite) is an entry-level Endpoint security product. Effective November 1, 2021, it will be available as a standalone product and also included in Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 A3 in volume licensing. The existing in-market MDE offer will be renamed MDE P2.
Effective September 1, 2021, this launch reduces the database capacity price for Dynamics 365 Business Central and add new offers for additional capacity block quantities in volume licensing.
Effective November 1, 2021, the Privacy Management Risk and Privacy Management Subject Rights Request SKUs will be available in volume licensing and the CSP program.
Effective September 1, 2021, this launch introduces a new 10,000 print job add-on pack for Universal Print across all market channels. Universal Print is a Microsoft 365 subscription-based service for centralizing print management. It’s fully integrated with Azure Active Directory and supports single sign-on scenarios in volume licensing and the CSP program.
Effective November 1, 2021, this launch will introduce a new voice channel for Dynamics 365 Customer Service via a new entitlement offer and a combined offer with Dynamics 365 Customer Service in volume licensing and the CSP program.
Effective November 1, 2021, this launch will introduce Dynamics 365 Engagement Insights per-tenant offers. This is made up of a per-tenant base offer and an “overage” offer which allows customers to prepay for additional “events” in volume licensing and the CSP program.
Effective September 15, 2021, this launch releases the next version of Windows Server Long-Term Servicing for both Windows Server 2022 Standard and Windows Server 2022 Datacenter in the CSP program.
Contact DXC licensing specialists with any queries in relation to these promotions and offers.
Higher subscription costs are coming to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 business users in 2022. Microsoft announced that it plans to raise the per-user, per-month subscription costs for all business plans — except for the Microsoft 365 E5 plan — starting March 1, 2022. The price increases will vary by plan. Read the full article and contact DXC licensing specialists to discuss any likely impact. .
Microsoft announces enhanced captioning in Microsoft Teams meetings, co-authoring in encrypted documents, expanded Microsoft Endpoint Manager capabilities, and more. Read the full article.
Windows 11 will be available to purchase on volume licensing price lists starting November 1, 2021. It is designed to support today's hybrid work environment, and intended to be the most reliable, secure, connected, and performant Windows operating system yet. Learn what you can expect from Windows 11.
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December 31, 2021 is the last day to transact Open License program offers. Starting on January 1, 2022, commercial, government, education, and non-profit organizations won’t be able to buy new or renew software licenses, Software Assurance, or online services through the Open License program. Contact DXC licensing specialists to transact through the Open License program to the end of 2021 and thereafter new license-only purchases through the Cloud Solution Provider program.
Effective October 11, 2021 enterprise customer billing administrators worldwide can manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server at an Azure billing account or subscription scope level.
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets Enterprise Agreement customers reduce costs by assigning their existing on-premises Windows server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance to Azure. Now, instead of assigning the benefit to each individual Azure resource (for example, virtual machine), billing administrators can assign SQL Server licenses to an Azure subscription or entire billing account.
To find out more, review additional information:
Microsoft is rolling out the next phase of the new commerce experience in which Azure will be joined by seat-based offers for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Windows 365. A seat-based offer is a subscription that’s offered “per seat” for one user, regardless of how many devices they’re using, for services offered in the cloud.
Contact DXC licensing specialists to learn how to subscribe to seat-based offers
View the list of Microsoft products retiring or reaching the end of support towards the end of 2021 and throughout 2022. Upon retirement or end of support, there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates. Contact DXC licensing specialists to discuss your available options.
Earlier this year, Microsoft previewed Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) for Windows and macOS. Effective September, 2021 this next perpetual version of Office for commercial and government customers is generally available for commercial and government customers
Audio Services: Added terms for Operator Connect.
Microsoft 365: Added new offers, Microsoft Viva Insights and Privacy Management to the Availability Table for the applicable Programs. Updated License Prerequisites table with Viva Insights and Privacy Management. Added Service Specific Terms for Viva Insights that describes credit expiration, and Privacy Management that describes Data Subject Requests.
Microsoft Azure: The Azure terms have been consolidated from four separate sections (formerly Microsoft Azure User Plans, Infrastructure Plans, Support Plans, and Azure Services) into a single Microsoft Azure section. Added terms for Multi-Cloud Scanning Connectors for Azure Purview. View more details here.
Office Applications: Updated terms to support launch of Office LTSC 2021 Suites and Applications (for Windows and Mac). There are no changes to the Availability, Use Rights, License Model or Software Assurance terms outside of updated version details.
Privacy & Security Terms: Corrected the Microsoft Azure Core Services list for “Azure Search” which was renamed to “Azure Cognitive Search” in October 2019. Added Azure Event Grid and Azure Purview as Core Online Services
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