Licensing For Business

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Microsoft MSDN Licensing for Developer Tools
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Agenda

• Positioning
• Subscription Levels
• How to Buy
• Fulfilment and Media
• Support
• Software Assurance

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Positioning
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Positioning

• Developers need Development Tools
• Tools
• Servers
• Operating Systems
• Need MSDN

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MSDN Subscription Levels Detail
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How is MSDN licensed?

• Single user license per person
• For Test Development only
• Exceptions
• Visual Studio
• MS Office
• Servers loaded any of machines, any of
  connections
• All other products, any machines

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How to Buy - FPP

• Channel
• Direct
• Registering the FPP Subscription

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How to buy Open Agreement

• One MSDN Subscription can start an Open Agreement
• Reseller Channel only
• Two years Subscription
• Co-termination
• Registering the Open Subscription

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How to Buy Multi year Open (MYO)

• Three Year Agreement
• L SA with Split Payments
• Reseller Channel only
• MSDN is an Additional Product
• Buy at anniversary date to receive full coverage
• Registering the MYO Subscription

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How to Buy Open Subscription Licence (OSL)

• Three Year Agreement
• Non Perpetual Ownership
• Reseller Channel only
• MSDN is an Additional Product
• Buy at anniversary date to receive full coverage
• Registering the OSL Subscription

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How to Buy - Select

• Three year Agreement
• Through Large Account Reseller Channel only
• Sits in Applications pool
• Buy at anniversary date to receive full coverage
• Registering the Select Subscription

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How to Buy - Enterprise Agreement

• Three year Agreement
• Through Enterprise Software Advisor only
• Sits in Applications pool
• Buy at anniversary date to receive full coverage
• Registering the Enterprise Subscription

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How to Buy - Academic

• Academic MSDN
• Academic Alliance Agreement (MSDN AA)

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Benefits of registering an MSDN subscription

• Get access to MSDN subscriber downloads
• Sign-up for monthly ships of the MSDN subscriber
  software in either CD or DVD format
• Access unlimited support from MSDN managed User
  Groups
• Take advantage of telephone and online
  professional support incidents that are provided
  as part of their subscription

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Fulfilment of MSDN media

• Updates received monthly
• Sharing media
• Copying media
• Who supplies the media?
• Product Activation

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Resources

• http//www.msdn.microsoft.com
• http//www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/
• The MSDN Information Centre
• MVLS
• Telephone Technical support
• Online Technical support

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Software Assurance

• Latest Updates - Pre-release and beta, through
  media and download
• All products to test and develop
• Support incidents
• Secure newsgroups peer to peer knowledge
  exchange, QA
• Webcasts, MSDN TV, technical training