paulnharris

hi all, if you need some direct help from Microsoft around this, feel free to contact the Education team on [email protected]

hi - the Microsoft Education team can help here! email: [email protected] Get in touch and we'll give you a definitive answer Cheers Paul (Microsoft Edu team!)

you can choose, either component CAL's (Win Svr, Exchange Svr etc) CAL bundle (Core CAL, ECAL) or external connector your reseller will be able to work out which is cheapest based on the number of students & the services you're providing

hmmm, I am a Microsoft account manager (in the Education team here at MS HQ) so I'll take that offline with you to see where the miscommunication is.... However here's the EES program guide take on this; Although you report a faculty/staff FTE employee count when submitting your annual order, all institution-owned or leased devices are licensed to run all products you choose to license organization-wide, during the subscription year. Any new faculty or staff members added to the participating organization during the year are licensed to use the devices running the licensed products. Your students can also use the licensed product on institution-owned or leased devices located in classrooms or open access labs within your defined organization. To license your students to run products on a device the student either personally owns or is institution-owned and is assigned to an individual student for their exclusive use, you can enroll in the Student Option (see The Student Option). So, Staff & Students are covered within the school but Students accessing from home 'on a device they personally own' are not. (staff are covered at home under the Software Assurance Work at Home rights)

Students accessing services from home e.g. Exchange/SharePoint are not covered under the FTE count on an EES agreement. You can either purchase Student CAL's or (if its more cost effective) you can purchase an external connector (NB: An Windows Server external connector is also required) The letter from 2006 referred to in an earlier post alludes to the fact that once you cover Students (either by CAL or external connector) you can also provide access to parents as well

Here's the blurb from the DreamSpark site ref eligibility - as long as it's for instructional use (not used to run the infrastructure) then you're covered The DreamSpark program offers annual memberships for educators to get their schools/institutions enrolled. The program has two primary goals: 1.Give access to Microsoft products and platforms: DreamSpark subscriptions give educators and students access to virtually every Microsoft product and technology, helping ensure they have the right technology choices for all current and future educational opportunities. 2.Deliver outstanding value: These subscriptions give outstanding value through inexpensive cost of membership, and convenient management of licenses on a per-user basis, removing the complexity of licenses across multiple environments. As a member, your school will receive a DreamSpark subscription that includes Microsoft platform, servers and developer tools software. This software may be installed on any number of departmental lab machines (depending on the licensing and courses the school or department offer). The software must be used for instructional and research purposes; it may not be used to run the infrastructure of the department. In addition, the department’s faculty and students may check out or download the software to install on their personal computers.

Do you have an EES or School agreement? If so, you have a free subscription to 'Dreamspark' which provides access to developer tools for staff & students https://www.dreamspark.com/

here's contact details for Microsoft Activation Centre - they will be able to help Support Center Contact Info Country: United Kingdom Email(s): [email protected] Toll Free Number(s): 0800 9179016 Hours of Operation: 09:00-18:00 GMT +1

Thanks for clarifying this Luke If anyone would like the VDA/VDI attachments referenced, they are available here: http://tinyurl.com/3cnb6mo Regards Paul Paul Harris Consultant Internal Schools Business Manager to Microsoft Ltd – South & Wales 0118 909 7824| Email: [email protected]| Twitter : @paulnharris

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server is included in the Exchange Enterprise CAL so you're covered

Microsoft Volume Licensing - Product Licensing Search Academic includes Campus and School Agreement, Open Value Subscription – Education Solutions, Select - Academic, and Open - Academic Programs So EES and OVS-ES agreements are classed as Academic, meaning you can upgrade from any of the o/s's included in the Academic Column on the table at the above link Paul Internal Schools Business Manager - Microsoft Ltd

Since the launch of EES to Schools in March, the 300 license minimum no longer applies. The minimum FTE count required to start an agreement is 5

Microsoft term a Student Qualified Desktop (i.e. requires Student option) as follows 'A Qualified desktop owned or leased by a Student, or that is owned or leased by Institutions Organisation and assigned for individual, dedicated use by a Student'

Hi, you are correct that your FTE count will cover all the desktops in your school By including the 'Student Option' in your OVS-ES, you can license selected products and services for use on your students’ personally-owned devices or on organisation-owned devices that are individually assigned to a student’s exclusive use (for example, a laptop checked out to a student for the school year). Some organizations choose to recover costs by charging the cost of Student Option to students. Some schools include this cost as part of the student technology fee, enrollment fee, or entrance fee. This is completely up to your organisation’s discretion and any applicable laws.

Hi Sukh The minimum for an OVS-ES is 1 x desktop platform product across 5 FTE's See this URL for program guides etc which contain more info Microsoft Volume Licensing - Document Library NB: these documents are US specific so certain points such as how the FTE calculation is worked out are different in EMEA regards Paul