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Microsoft Educational Licence programmes

Full details of all education licensing programmmes

Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) - annual subscription for all users

Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) is a commitment-based Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement for academic organizations with 1,000 or more users (known as Education Qualified Users) or students that want to license one or more Education Platform Products organization-wide. Student use benefits are available, and Software Assurance is included for some on-premises products.

Microsoft Open Value Subscription for Education Solutions (OVS-ES) - annual subscription for all users

Microsoft Open Value Subscription for Education Solutions (OVS-ES) is a commitment-based Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement for academic organizations with 5 to 999 full-time employees or students that want to license one or more desktop platform product or platform cloud service organization-wide. Software Assurance is included and student use benefits are available.

Perpetual purchase for products as needed

Server products (e.g. Windows Server, CALs, RDS CALs) are available for perpetual purchase at education prices. These tie you to a specific version. They are 4-5x the price of same licences on OVS-ES, so if you play to upgrade in the next 5 years or alter the number of licences required, this licence scheme is not for you.

Microsoft CSP and NCE

Licences such as Office 365, Microsoft 365, Minecraft and Entra ID can be licenced on a month-by-month basis on CSP. Some licences (and probably more over time) are available on NCE which is payable on a month-by-month basis, but with a 12-month commit.

EES and OVS-ES

Under these agreements you can license a single school, multiple schools or an entire school system, such as a local authority. You count your Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff once per year, so you don't have to track every single computer in your establishment. Full-Time Equivalent staff are those who work more than 200 hours per year in your school (this equates to around five hours a week during term time). There is no need to include staff members (e.g. maintenance, grounds keeping, and cafeteria staff) or volunteers (e.g. parent helpers) who do not use a computer in the school.

Key benefits of this programme include:

• Counting FTE staff once per year covers all staff and shared-use computers
• One annual payment for all software at academic prices
• Access to the most current version of licensed software
• Ability to downgrade to an earlier version of software
• Broad product selection available in all languages
• Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh platform
• Optional inclusion of computers exclusively dedicated to one student, and students' own home computers

Subscription Features

Customer Profile

Any qualifying academic institution, typically a School, College or University with 5 FTEs or more, looking for a simple, flexible subscription based volume licensing offer.

Minimum Requirements

5 FTEs is the minimum requirement to take advantage of the OVS-ES programme

Product Availability

The customer may order subscription licences for a wide selection of Microsoft software through OVS-ES or EES

The Education Desktop with Core CAL Suite includes:

• Windows Enterprise Upgrade (including downgrade rights to, e.g. 10 instead of 11)
• Microsoft Office Professional Plus and Office for Mac
• Microsoft Core CAL Suite (Windows Server CAL, SharePoint Server Standard CAL, Exchange ServerStandard CAL, System Center Configuration Manager Client Management License, System Center Endpoint Protection, and Lync Server Standard CAL.)

The Education Desktop with Enterprise CAL Suite includes:

• Windows Enterprise Upgrade
• Microsoft Office Professional Plus and Office for Mac
• Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite (Includes all Core CAL Suite components plus Exchange Server Enterprise CAL with Services [includes Data Loss Prevention and Exchange Online Protection], Exchange Online Archiving, SharePoint Server Enterprise CAL, Lync Server Enterprise CAL, Windows Server Active Directory Rights Management Services CAL, and System Center Client Management Suite)

Additional Products

A broad selection of software and services are available as additional products under your EES. Additional products may be licensed in any quantity, ranging from one licence to organisation-wide.

Examples of software products available include:

• Server Standard
• Server Enterprise
• Server Data Center
• Visual Studio Pro
• Project Pro
• Expression Studio Ultimate
• Expression Studio Web
• MapPoint
• SQL CAL
• Visio Premium
• Windows Multipoint Server CAL
• Remote Desktop Services CAL (must match the FTE amount)

Renewing Agreement

Agreements are available for 1-year and 3-year period. The agreements are the same price, but with a 3-year agreement the unit price is held for all 3 years.

A 3-year agreement will require a customer to re-order all committed products at each anniversary. Committed products are licensed Enterprise Wide (FTE count), and are Desktop Edu Bundle, Office Pro Plus, Windows Edu, and Core CAL / ECAL Suite.

If they choose one or more of these products at initial order when starting a 3-year agreement, they must order each subsequent year of the agreement.

If it is not included, Microsoft will reject their anniversary order/s and they will be deemed as non-compliant having not placed an accurate anniversary order.

Customer can a) take out a 1-year agreement and the reaccess their licensing needs at renewal, or b) take a 1-year agreement for somem products (such as Office) and have a second 3-year agreement with their other prodcuts ordered against it so they benefit from the 3-year price protection, etc.

Pricing Levels

Contact Precedence Technologies for details.

Student Licensing

Student Option licences are required for computers exclusively dedicated to one student, and available for students' own home computers. Student and faculty/staff orders cannot be combined to meet the minimum requirement.

Staying Current on Software

Customers are licensed to run any version of products, including product upgrades released during the designated agreement/order term.

Access to Software Assurance Benefits

Yes, including the Microsoft VDA allowing virtual desktops and thin-clients to be included. This is a must for any desktop virtualisaton or provisioning project.

Work at Home Rights and Home Use Programme

Yes, for faculty and staff users counted within your FTE count.