Second, I sometimes get a question from a confused customer who wonders if their licenses expire after the “expiration date” stated in their contract. It is important to note that all perpetual licenses listed in the Agreement will not expire on this date. Perpetual licenses last forever. This “Expiration Date” applies only to the authorization number and all SAs listed in this Agreement. After this date, you will no longer be able to use this authorization number to order additional licenses, and you will no longer be able to access SA benefits, but you will be able to use the licenses for as long as you want. When you order your licenses, you will receive an email attachment with basic information about your contract. When you open the file, it looks like this: Sometimes Microsoft volume licensing offers a promotion where the purchase of a particular product allows the customer to use another product. Promotions usually depend on the Active Software Assurance or Upgrade Advantage coverage for the product purchased. For example: next to the top, what is the license authorization number? An authorization number is the unique number that Microsoft assigns to the customer after receiving an initial order in a Microsoft Volume Licensing program.
In the open license, this number allows orders to be reorganized for two years from the original order date. There are a few things to keep in mind about this latest date. First of all, one of the good things about Microsoft license agreements is that they always postpone the expiration date to the end of the month to simplify things. As you can see in the example above, this order was placed on January 4, 2016 and the authorization number and SA expire in two years, plus some changes: January 31, 2018. So, a word for the wise, if you buy your SA subscription at the beginning of the month, then you get a little more time. 1. To find the contract number, ask the program administrator/account holder for your VLSC to register here: www.microsoft.com/Licensing/servicecenter/Subscriptions.aspx The effective amount is the number of license fees per product and version with upgrades. It can be used to determine whether your organization has license deficits or surpluses per product and version.
One last observation before concluding. The authorization number on your order confirmation is valid for two years, but the license agreement itself (and the associated software assurance) may be less than two years. If you receive an authorization number with an order and use that number to order other products later, you will receive a new license agreement number, but not a new expiration date. The Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) is a transactional license agreement for commercial, government, and academic organizations with 250 or more users/devices. For example, if Acme Industries decides to order a few additional licenses from SA in November 2016 and use the same authorization number as shown above, it will pay SA for 24 months but only receive 15. Instead, Acme Industries would have to start a new agreement with a new authorization number. Microsoft allows you to have multiple authorization numbers at once to resolve this issue. So you`ve taken the plunge! You`ve ordered your first Microsoft Open Licensing contract! You will receive the order confirmation in your inbox, you will breathe a sigh of relief, you double-click on the attached file. You`re so excited that you can barely keep your mouse still. But then the file opens and you are faced with a technical document full of confusing numbers, data and legal terminology.
And now? Going back to our screenshot above, the next section below contains the “Product Pool” and “Volume Price Level” fields. These fields refer to the Open Level C program, which offers a small discount for the purchase of a large number of licenses at once. It`s a complicated program and offers only meager discounts, but if you`d like to learn more about it, check out my article here. The last field in this line refers to the “Licensed Program”. If you are a typical business, “Company” appears in this field. If you are a non-profit, school or government organization, “charity”, “academic” or “government” will be read. You may have noticed that this order confirmation does not contain any product keys. To obtain your keys and download the software, you must log in to the Volume Licensing Service Center. Make sure you sign in with the same email address associated with your order. Your license agreement should automatically appear in the system, but if for some reason this is not the case, you can use the authorization number and license agreement number to add it to your account.
The active SA quantity is displayed in the license overview. It represents the number of licenses covered by Software Assurance for all Microsoft volume licensing programs. The Active SA package includes all types of Software Assurance, including: An unresolved quantity appears in the license summary if the number of upgrade licenses is greater than the number of eligible full licenses. This can happen for one of the following reasons: Microsoft is assigned a license number and an authorization number (also known as a contract number) for each donation request. These numbers are used to identify your request and may be required to perform certain actions on the VLSC. 4. The required license ID (contract number) is listed as “Default Registration Number”. In your list of Enterprise agreements for license reservations, select the active agreement to continue the online reservation, and then click Next. For reservations to be available, you must have already signed the updated Enterprise Agreement (uEA) amendment or have an agreement from 2011 or later. The product must have been ordered in advance or be invoiced in the customer price sheet (CPS). A license right represents your right to install and use software products as described in the license agreement.
At the top right, you will see your “Authorization Number” and “License Agreement Number”. You can think of the authorization number as an umbrella that covers an unlimited number of license agreement numbers. Once you have an authorization number, you no longer need to meet the minimum of five licenses to place an order. Simply give the reseller your authorization number if you need to order one or two additional licenses and the order will be processed. The only catch is that the authorization number expires after two years (more on that below). Each individual license order contains a different license agreement number. Again, an authorization number can be linked to many license agreement numbers. The unique license ID view in the relationship overview displays only the purchases for that particular agreement.
(The sets in the Unresolved Quantity column may be incorrect.) The relationship summary displays all volume licensing agreements and open licenses associated with your VLSC account. Summary details are listed by License ID (licensing program) and can be extended to show more information, including parent agreements and the Microsoft Business and Services Agreement (MBSA). To access the relationship summary and view it in the VLSC, click Licenses, and then click Relationship Summary. No. The licensing overview displays only licenses purchased by your organization through volume licensing programs. 3. Here, the administrator sees all the products that are currently licensed For more information about VLSC authorization roles and their allowed actions, see the Permissions FAQ. A license reservation allows a customer to place a license reservation order to migrate on-premises resources to the cloud without an order. A reservation order is a financial obligation to purchase reserved items. If you are not authorized to accept this obligation, please contact the person in your organization who is authorized to do so. The next line below contains a location for a “license reference”. For Mirazon customers, this is the purchase order number we provided to our distributor and it can be ignored.
Among them are three dates. Here is the meaning of this data: you can consult the history of your reservation on the Booking Confirmation page or on the “Manage my reservation” page. If you only order licenses, it doesn`t matter. But when you order Software Assurance, it becomes extremely important. In the Open License program, you will be charged for two years of Software Assurance, no matter what. But if you order this SA with an old authorization number, you will not get a full two-year sa. Preview the booking on the Booking Confirmation page. After confirming that the reservation is correct, click Send Reservation. The Booking Confirmation pop-up window appears. After reading and accepting the Terms of Use, click Send Booking. Any changes to Volume Licensing contacts must be made through your Microsoft partner.
Please contact your partner to request a change of contact information. A MAK key is a volume license key. If you`re having trouble activating Windows 7, open the Windows Activation Wizard on Windows 7 to use the phone and activate Windows: If the licenses were in a very recent order, this command may not have been processed by your Microsoft partner yet. . Once you have made a reservation, you cannot change it. You can cancel a submitted reservation within 72 hours of submission. To request that a license ID be added to your permission set, complete and submit the form on the Request Permissions page. When the form is submitted, the registered administrator for the license IDs listed in the form will be notified of your request by email. You don`t need to transfer this to VLSC media as the unresolved amount cannot be changed by the media.
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