Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Susan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:02:12 GMT

Ross - you should see this in the VSLC console. I now have "2" server as being licensed.

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Ross — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:13:24 GMT

Is there an official statement on the two server licenses. Not all of my licenses are reflecting this change and I need to prove this to licensing?

If this is true, we should then have 3 server licenses if we had the premium add-on? the premium add-on also gives you one server license along with SQL.

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Susan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:12:16 GMT

Ron, you can no longer purchase SA on SBS

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Ron Baker — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:33:35 GMT

Do OEM Purchases still have the right to have SA added with-in 90 days of purchase? Which SA Part numbers would we use? The same SA parts as if we were starting a new agreement?

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Greg — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:44:30 GMT

Good news but SA is 100% higher going forward for SBS premium clients (Mainly due to SQL as most of our clients require it to run their business). So our SA client are pretty upset with us telling them that it would cost them less after three years to find out it is actually going to cost a lot more.

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

mnri — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:22:06 GMT

To be fair mnri this is why they suspend the sale of SA. You'd be getting a boatload of software at a dirt cheap price. If you are a SA customer you have to believe in Santa Claus. This one of those times that "I believe" counts.

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

mnri — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:03:54 GMT

Too bad Microsoft suspended the availability of SA for new SBS 2011 purchases a long time ago.

It would be great for the option of SA for people buying SBS 2011 between now and when it's no longer available.

re: Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Peter Perry — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:53:39 GMT

Excellent! Thank you, Microsoft, for listening to your partners on this one.