Microsoft Volume Licensing offers customized programs designed to meet the needs of your organization. Tailored to the size and purchasing preference of your organization, these programs provide, flexible, and affordable solutions that enable you to easily manage both your on-premise and online licenses.
Volume Licensing of software makes it easier and more affordable to run software on multiple computers within a single purchasing organization. By acquiring software licenses through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs, you only pay for the software license or subscription. Boxed software, on the other hand, may include media (the CD-ROM or DVD), a user guide, and other packaging items. Eliminating these physical costs and purchasing in volume often reduces cost, provides more customized purchasing options, and improves software management.
In the case of some Microsoft Volume Licensing programs, you may also purchase Software Assurance for your on-premise licenses. Software Assurance is a comprehensive program that helps to smooth licensing budgeting and provides a cost effective way to upgrade to new on-premise software versions. To help streamline software implementations and prepare users, Software Assurance also includes onsite deployment planning services, technical classroom training, and online training and home use licenses for end-users. You can choose Software Assurance at the time of purchase and begin using your benefits immediately.
Office 2010 Volume Licensing overview
Office 2010 suites available under Microsoft Volume Licensing
For organizations looking to get the most out of their Volume Licensing agreements, Microsoft Office 2010 licensing offers more business value in each product offering with new, innovative, integrated Office Web Apps, and simplified licensing options and activation processes.
Two Microsoft Office 2010 suites are available in Volume Licensing: Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010.
Office Professional Plus 2010 includes Microsoft OneNote 2010 and SharePoint Workspace 2010 (formerly known as Groove). SharePoint Workspace becomes the offline client for SharePoint, allowing end-users the ability to access documents posted on SharePoint even when they are offline.
Office Standard 2010 includes OneNote 2010 and Publisher 2010. For more information, see Compare suites available through Volume Licensing.
Licensing Office Web Apps
Office Web Apps are licensed as part of the Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010 licenses. Office Web Apps are convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly from your Web browser. They extend the familiar Office experience to the browser. Office Web Apps include Word Web App, Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App, and OneNote Web App.
Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010 include rights to Office Web Apps independent of whether an organization has active Software Assurance or not. Customers who have active Software Assurance and Office 2007 have rights to Office 2010 and, as a result, access to Office Web Apps.
While Office Web Apps are licensed as part of Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010, they must be hosted on premise by installing the bits on SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010.
Benefits of licensing Office 2010 along with Office system servers
With Office 2010, the ease of a familiar Office user interface supports rich, back-end server capabilities. The following table shows how different business capabilities are delivered to end-users through a combination of Office 2010 and the corresponding servers.
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| Unified communications |
Share an Office application with others in one click. |
Lync 2010*
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Lync Server 2010* |
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See availability and contact information from within a shared document and begin a conversation using instant messaging or voice. |
Word 2010 and Lync 2010*
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Lync Server 2010* |
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See voicemail transcripts and faxes in your Inbox. |
Outlook 2010 |
Exchange 2010 |
| Business intelligence |
Consolidate and analyze vast amounts of data, share and refresh powerful models in SharePoint. |
Excel 2010 with PowerPivot add-on |
SharePoint 2010 |
| Collaboration |
Edit the same document at the same time. |
Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2010 |
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Use and update SharePoint documents and lists when not connected. |
SharePoint Workspace 2010 |
SharePoint 2010 |
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Broadcast a slideshow from within PowerPoint. |
PowerPoint 2010 |
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Use Mail Tips to avoid sending sensitive mail to the wrong people, and prioritize security with Retention Policy and Automated Policy Application. |
Outlook 2010 |
Exchange 2010 |
| Enterprise content management |
Enhance content management with smart templates that populate document metadata. |
Word 2010 |
SharePoint 2010 |
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Easily access rich client/server capabilities with the Backstage view in Office 2010. |
Office 2010 |
SharePoint 2010 |
*Lync 2010 is available with Office Professional Plus 2010 and Lync Online only. In addition, the Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010 suites provide different levels of integration with Lync Server 2010. Learn more. |
Microsoft offers various licensing options to purchase Office 2010 along with the servers. Please visit the Microsoft License Advisor for details.
Office 2010 with Microsoft Software Assurance
We recommend that you purchase Software Assurance for your Office 2010 licenses in order to keep updated on the latest software versions and to take advantage of the many additional benefits of the Microsoft Software Assurance program.
If you have licensed Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Office Professional Plus 2007, or Office Small Business Edition 2007 and have Software Assurance which was active at the time Office 2010 released, you have rights to Office Professional Plus 2010.
If you are licensed for Office Standard 2007 with Software Assurance which was active at the time of the Office 2010 release, you have rights to Office Standard 2010.
Microsoft Software Assurance now includes a new benefit enabling roaming-use rights for Office, Visio, and Project. Roaming-use rights allow more flexibility for users and offer more value for organizations with active Software Assurance. For customers operating virtual environments, the licensed user of an Office device can access a virtual Office image from outside the organization’s firewall from any device not controlled by the customer organization.
As mobility becomes increasingly important, Software Assurance is continuing to evolve by supporting customers with roaming-use rights. For more information, see the Software Assurance website.
Microsoft Volume Licensing programs
Microsoft offers Volume Licensing programs to help reduce administrative overhead and software management costs for your organization, while enabling product licensing on an ongoing basis at considerable discounts.
Click the program name in the left column to find out more about a particular licensing program.
Microsoft Volume Licensing programs
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Enterprise Agreement (EA)
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Microsoft Enterprise Agreement is a Volume Licensing program for large organizations with 250 or more PCs. The program provides a simple, flexible, and affordable way to buy the latest Microsoft software products. The Enterprise Agreement helps your business standardize IT across the enterprise, simplifies license management, and provides benefits to help ensure that your organization maintains a competitive advantage and increases employee productivity. |
Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS)
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Microsoft Enterprise Subscription Agreement is a Volume Licensing program for large organizations with 250 or more PCs. With Enterprise Subscription agreement, your organization can subscribe to, rather than purchase, Microsoft software licenses. As an Enterprise Subscription Agreement customer, you can standardize your enterprise by licensing Microsoft enterprise products at volume pricing based on a three-year agreement term.
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Select Plus License
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Microsoft Select Plus is a Volume Licensing program for midsize and large organizations with 250 or more PCs. This is an excellent option for customers that who want to make transactional license purchases. It offers automatic price savings based on purchase volume across an organization, improved asset management, and the ability to manage your software assets and services at the organization, affiliate, or department level.
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Open License
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Microsoft Open License is a Volume Licensing program for small to midsize organizations with fewer than 250 PCs. The program provides a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to buy the latest Microsoft technology to meet your organization's needs and procurement procedures. |
The type of license (perpetual or non-perpetual), the type of relationship you want to have with Microsoft (committed or transactional), and the number of software licenses that you need will determine the Volume Licensing program that is right for you.
Enterprise Agreements can greatly simplify planning and management for organizations with more than 250 PCs that want to enter into a committed agreement with Microsoft, while organizations with fewer than five users or devices connecting to a Windows Server may find purchasing licenses in Open, Open Value, OEM, or even Retail to be a better option.
