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Microsoft Volume Licensing Mail Bag: Two Questions on SQL Server Licensing
A Microsoft Volume Licensing Expert Answers your Burning Questions on Licensing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Louise Ulrick is a UK-based licensing consultant and trainer with experience spanning three...
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Licensing How To: SQL Server Fail-Over vs. Cold Disaster Recovery Rights.
The Licensing How To series posts are provided by our Customer Service Presales and Licensing team members. These scenario based licensing topics are written on trending topics and issues based on...
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Licensing How To: Maximize Your Software Assurance Benefits in Open License
Summary: Software Assurance coverage is tied to the authorization number so when you purchase makes a difference to maximizing the length of your benefit. In this Licensing How To post, we cover the...
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New Version Rights with Software Assurance Explained
Summary: A common question we get, especially as excitement builds for the launch of a new version of a product is, “I have active Software Assurance (SA) coverage on my licenses and a new version is...
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New Look for Software Assurance Website – Discoverability Main Focus
The most popular New Year's resolution?? Yup, you guessed it - drop a few pounds and streamline that waistline. Well, websites often "bulk up" over time and can use a good cleanse too. There’s nothing...
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Windows Embedded Licensing Update
New customer needs surface regularly and where possible Microsoft adjusts licensing policies to enable new and desirable scenarios. A good example of this is the April 1st change to align Volume...
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Licensing How To: SQL 2014 Licensing Changes
Summary: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 delivers mission-critical performance and introduces new in-memory capabilities built-in to the core database for OLTP and Data Warehousing, which complements the...
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MPSA Adds Software Assurance
Phased Retirement for Select Plus on the Horizon By Richard SmithGeneral Manager, Microsoft World Wide Licensing & Pricing (WWLP) In past updates (November and March) I shared how we’re...
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Software Assurance Now Available through MPSA
Today Software Assurance (SA) with simplified benefits management, a major milestone we originally announced at WPC, is officially available through the Microsoft Product and Services Agreement (MPSA)....
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MPSA expands to Public Sector and 67 additional countries
By Richard Smith General Manager, Microsoft World Wide Licensing & Pricing (WWLP) Today I am pleased to announce another key milestone in our licensing transformation. For the first time, we can...
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