{"id":11625,"date":"2019-10-23T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schneider.im\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2022-03-30T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:09:24","slug":"microsoft-software-assurance-benefits-sab-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-software-assurance-benefits-sab-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Software Assurance Benefits (SAB) Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is retiring two Software Assurance benefits that have similar offerings outside of Software Assurance and changing the eligibility criteria for a third benefit. Specifically, this means:<\/p>\n

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  1. Microsoft retires the Deployment Planning Services benefit and will fulfill your implementation needs through Microsoft\u2019s premier cloud migration and deployment program Microsoft FastTrack.<\/li>\n
  2. Microsoft is investing in new, modern skilling programs. Training vouchers will be phased out as a Software Assurance benefit and will no longer be used to convert to planning services.<\/li>\n
  3. Microsoft is adjusting the eligibility criteria of 24×7 support and changing support allocations to align Software Assurance support with Microsoft\u2019s new Unified Support offering.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The first of these changes go into effect in February 2020, with the remaining changes gradually rolled-out through 2021, to give your organization time to accrue and use your remaining planning days, training vouchers, and support incidents.<\/p>\n

    You can find details on each benefit change and the timeline for benefit allocation and use deadlines here: https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/licensing\/licensing-programs\/software-assurance-by-benefits?rtc=1&activetab=software-assurance-by-benefits-tab%3aprimaryr2<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Did you find this information useful? Subscribe to our newsletter: https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/newsletter\/<\/a> and be up-to-date with all software licensing changes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Microsoft is retiring two Software Assurance benefits that have similar offerings outside of Software Assurance and changing the eligibility criteria for a third benefit. Specifically, this means: Microsoft retires the Deployment Planning Services benefit and will fulfill your implementation needs through Microsoft\u2019s premier cloud migration and deployment program Microsoft FastTrack. Microsoft is investing in new, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-software-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22407,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions\/22407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}