SteveJ

You can just switch at renewal, there's no additional charge to do it.

You can buy them to cover all you machines or you can cover a small number number of them if you don't need it site wide (The cost per unit is about 3x higher to do this)

I was under the impression that you had to be in the same LEA to do this.... May be wrong though

We get pricing from Distribution a month in advance, I can't comment on other companies but that's the case with us (otherwise we couldn't quote on renewals until they'd expired). The pricing will depend on the quantity you'd be purchasing but as a general rule the cost price of EES is 30% higher per unit than Schools agreement. As an example, if you had an FTE of 100 I'd suggest a price of around £36-£37 per FTE for Desktop. Different companies will differ of course EES pricing for FE/HE has been around since December. If you post you FTE & Product(s) I can give you a rough guide to pricing.

Sorry, but that's not true. EES agreements cannot be set up until March, but pricing has definitely been released.

Looking at that, £26.96 is way below the cost price and more like what the price was per unit under the old schools agreement... I'd be a little wary. Would be worth checking what the MS part number is for the quoted items (for Desktop it should be 2UJ-00011).

List of qualifying OS's: Microsoft Volume Licensing - Product Licensing Search (Academic Column on second table)

If they both do over 200 hours per year I'm 99% sure it'll be 2 FTE

It doesn't help that when you look at the MS site you see the American way (1x Full Time Faculty + 1/2 x Part time Faculty etc.) used. Why they changed it for Europe only MS knows....

For Microsoft it needs to be any member of staff who works over 200 hours per year, excluding those who do not have access to your PC's/network (Cooks, cleaners, etc). Make sure it's calculated correctly before you place an order to save hassle in the future

Is that just for Desktop... or have you got other licenses (Visio, SQL CAL, etc)?

If it's just for desktop I wouldn't expect you to be paying more than £40 per FTE on EES

There doesn't appear to be a buy out option now. (it used to be 2x-3x more expensive depending of you had a 3 or 1 year agreement). It wasn't much cheaper than Select licenses unless you had a 3 year agreement anyway)

Windows Server Enterprise would allow up to 4 VM's per server license but as you're only installing 2 VM's per server it's probably cheaper just to buy 2 Windws Server standard licenses per server so: 2 standalone servers - 2 x Windows Server Standard 4 physical servers running Hyper-V hosting 6 Virtual Servers on 3 - 6 x Windows Server standard (or 3 x Windows Server Enterprise) Exchange Server: 1x Exchange Std License (Or Enterprise if prefered) 1x Windows Server Std Plus CAL's for all machines . With Backup exec you'll need 8 or 9 Windows agents depending on which server the Backup Exec server is sitting on and an Exchange agent if you want to backup exchange. If you have 3 or 4 VM's per machine you can get a Hyper-V agent to cover all the VM's but as uoi only have 2 VM's it's cheaper to buy individual agents.

We are under the impression that it is 5.

Microsoft Schools pricelists usually come through after the first 4 or 5 days of the month, so I'm not expecting anything until Friday.... Would be nice if MS had given us an idea of what the price would be though.

Campus pricing is about 20% higher than Schools per unit, if they base it on this, EES'd be about £35 for desktop. I'm pretty sure that this is for HE/FE. Schools has a much lower limit (I think I heard 5 from somewhere). It's definately 200 hours I'm afraid: "In EMEA, counting FTEs for EES remains the same as it is in Campus Enrollment today. FTE Employees = faculty and staff who work more than 200 hours per year."

You can also order media sets from your reseller for a fee. Students can buy copies of office for themselves under the Student Select scheme, or you can add student licenses to your schools agreement.

AFAIK Adobe do not offer any license management software. You'd need a 3rd party program like Sassafras Key server or License Dashboard

Kind of... As your staff are covered by WAH, I'd say to buy student CALs + Server rather than the internet sites license. As there's no external connector for Sharepoint, is it a Windows server external connector you've been quoted? (As Localzuk said, If it's sharepoint foundation you need you can buy the Windows server External connector to cover it as you only need Windows Server licenses for it) You'd be looking at about £600 for Sharepoint Internet under schools agreement, £1,500 as an outright purchase.

Hmm, looks like you can use external connectors for students after all! : Windows Server 2008 R2: Frequently Asked Questions about Licensing Q. If a student accesses a school's network, is the student considered an External User? A. Yes, and thus the student can be covered under an External Connector license.

Ok, sorry, Maybe it was a bit too long winded. I was trying to explain why you couldn't use an external connector and reasons why you might not be able to use the Internet sites license rather than just saying yes or no. I was only trying to help

The Product Glenda is talking about is the Desktop package which costs ~ £27 You are correct, Staff would be covered by WAH rights and parents are covered by the student CALS. External connectors cannot be used for students. I don't think there is an external connector for sharepoint anyway, only the 'Internet sites' license. The Internet sites license is for Internet sites where as the Server/Cal licenses are for Intranet. You can only use the Internet sites license if all content will be available to external users (i.e. anyone with internet access) 'The Server only licensing model is for external users only. Internal users can use this license only if all content, information, and applications are also accessible to external users. If the server has items that are for internal use only, those users require CALs, and their servers require licenses for SharePoint Server 2010.' http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Licensing-Details.aspx You'd be looking at about £580 for this under a schools agreement or £1500 as an outright purchase. More info about External Connectors: External Connector 'If your users are internal users with Active Directory (AD) accounts, there must be CALs (either per-user/per-device or per-server). There is no option. If they are external users—for example partners, customers, or vendors—who will authenticate in any way, then you can either provide CALs for those individuals as part of your per-user or per-server CALs, or you can use the External Connector license. The External Connector license allows an unlimited number of authenticated users, as long as those users are external. Again, you would do this for both the WSS front-end server and for the SQL Server if they're running on separate instances of Windows Server.'

Server ~ £240 Standard CAL ~ £2.80 Enterprise CAL ~ £3.60 Standard CAL (Student)~ 28p Enterprise CAL (Student)~ £2.20 Covering your school machines under a schools agreement gives staff work at home rights, so no need for separate CAL's for them. It may be worth you waiting for the new EES schools agreements next March (http://www.edugeek.net/forums/licensing-questions/63614-ms-schools-agreement-good-news-schools.)

Sorry, I was assuming it was ten staff members you wanted to connect. Each individual user that connects will need a CAL as the CALs are 'assigned' to each individual user. The £410 connector looks more likely to be a Windows server External connector, a RDS connector would be over £1000.