[windows software] EES Confusion. Need some advice. Small school <30 seats

[rcmcdonald91]

I represent a small school (120 students = 40 HS + 80 Elementary).

 

We have 14 FTE's

 

We have two instances of Server 2012R2. These are already licensed. We already have device cal's for Server 2012R2.

 

I know that migrated to EES means that for some things (like CALs and Office) we will end up being "double-licensed" for. For example, the school owns 14 perpetual academic licenses for Office 2013. Therefore, if we purchase EES to cover installations on student workstations, we will end up with more license than we need. But, nothing that we can do about it.

 

Here is what we want on all machines (student and faculty)

 

 

1. Windows 8.1 (minimum of Windows 7) on all machines. For machines incompatible with Windows 8.1, we will deploy Windows 7 images.
   
2. Office 2013
   
3. SCCM management for all machines.
   

 

What part numbers should I be looking for?

[elsiegee40]

Is is it Best Value for you to get EES licensing? I use those words capitalised because the governors of your school must ensure that financial transaction represent best use of public funding, known as Best Value.

 

When my school was at those sort of numbers and EES was first launched, it was actually cheaper NOT to do it and license individually. We simply didn't have high enough numbers of hardware or staff.

 

As an independent this wasn't even a decision made about public money; it was simple maths

[Blue_Cookeh]

It's a bit of a game with these sorts of schools. I work at a relatively small school, but we're heavy users of IT. The cost of licensing per FTE is far cheaper than outright buying licenses for all our servers/work stations. We license for Windows/Server/SCCM & CALs and it made far more sense for us, especially since we like the ability to upgrade to the latest and greatest software every year or two.

 

After a year or two we wrote off the perpetual licenses we had from before EES. They were old and the school had moved on.

Edited May 18, 2015 by Blue_Cookeh

[PotNoodleTech]

In business this usually won't work out cheaper as they often have one person per PC. In a school we usually have 2-4 people per PC so the EES licencing scheme often works out considerably cheaper than buying licences outright.

 

It's certainly much more flexible than buying licences. Another side benefit is that EES is a known yearly cost and so can be easily costed into school/ict development plans.

 

Elsie - is it best value to spend several thousand on licences that are going to be effectively useless and worthless the next time you upgrade to the latest version? I know I've got a set of Office 97 licences, office 2000 licences, office 2003 licences, that are all completely useless and worthless now and if you look at the cost per year, actually don't over very good value for money. We need to make sure we factor in long term costs over a 3-5 year period not just initial cost of "now".