Microsoft Licenses

[Soulfish]

With schools agreement it seems that you license per computer. If you want to license Office under it then all computers have to be licensed for Office, if your licensing Windows all computer have to be licensed to run it etc.

[DMcCoy]

With schools agreement it seems that you license per computer. If you want to license Office under it then all computers have to be licensed for Office, if your licensing Windows all computer have to be licensed to run it etc.

 

Well you have to license all machines with the Desktop Schools license, which includes Windows upgrade, Office, windows CAL and exchange CAL. So in effect while you are licensing office for all machines, you would have to anyway!

 

Should any suppliers be listing office *seprately" on schools agreement then this is totally wrong (one well known supplier screwed up my schools agreement in this way and it took nearly the year to sort out).

[localzuk]

Well you have to license all machines with the Desktop Schools license, which includes Windows upgrade, Office, windows CAL and exchange CAL. So in effect while you are licensing office for all machines, you would have to anyway!

 

Should any suppliers be listing office *seprately" on schools agreement then this is totally wrong (one well known supplier screwed up my schools agreement in this way and it took nearly the year to sort out).

 

They can list it separately- it works out cheaper for us to split them. Rather than the bundle. Done it this way for the last 2 years. It is around £500 difference for 300 machines for us

[Soulfish]

Well you have to license all machines with the Desktop Schools license, which includes Windows upgrade, Office, windows CAL and exchange CAL. So in effect while you are licensing office for all machines, you would have to anyway!

 

Should any suppliers be listing office *seprately" on schools agreement then this is totally wrong (one well known supplier screwed up my schools agreement in this way and it took nearly the year to sort out).

 

You can license each component on there own, or opt for the desktop pack (which includes the cals, office and windows). Both are valid options as far as I'm aware

[DMcCoy]

They can list it separately- it works out cheaper for us to split them. Rather than the bundle. Done it this way for the last 2 years. It is around £500 difference for 300 machines for us

 

Then whats the point of the Desktop Schools bundle? I assume it's the minimum amount of products you need to participate in the scheme.

 

From SA documentation "Microsoft provides the following “Desktop” packages, which offer a discounted price over the cost of licensing the products individually."

[localzuk]

Then whats the point of the Desktop Schools bundle? I assume it's the minimum amount of products you need to participate in the scheme.

 

From SA documentation "Microsoft provides the following “Desktop” packages, which offer a discounted price over the cost of licensing the products individually."

 

Yes, that is if you need all the components. We don't need SQL CALs or Exchange CALs here, so splitting it up, and excluding them means we get a better deal with the separate bits than the pack.