Effective January 2021, Microsoft users will need a Work or School Account (WSA) to sign in to Volume License Service Center (VLSC). If you still use a Microsoft Account (MSA) (previously called “Live ID”) to login in to VLSC, please follow these three scenarios
Effective January 1, 2022, commercial, government, education, and nonprofit organizations will not be able to buy new or renew software licenses, Software Assurance, or online services through the Open License program anymore. Until then, all customers can continue to purchase products through the Open
Effective January 1, 2021, Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) can sell perpetual software licenses (without Software Assurance) to commercial organizations. Furthermore, by July 1, 2021, Microsoft CSP will be able to sell perpetual software licenses (without Software Assurance) also to government, education, and nonprofit
Effective December 1, 2020, a Long Term Supported (LTS) version for Adobe Creative Cloud is available for enterprise customers. LTS delivers an additional 12 months of security updates beyond the most recent ‘N’ version, which, in combination with N, allows the customer to standardize
The Transition of Atlassian Jira Server: What You Need to Know Atlassian, the renowned software company behind Jira, has recently made significant announcements regarding its server product. This includes the cessation of new server license sales and the eventual termination of server support. These
Effective January 31, 2021, Microsoft Deployment Planning Services (DPS) customer planning days as well as customer training days from Training Vouchers will stop accumulating. You can still create vouchers for those days until end of June 2021. Those vouchers are still valid for 180
Effective November 11, 2020, new constrained vCPU capable virtual machines are available from Microsoft. In this type of VM the vCPU count can be constrained to a half or a quarter of the original VM size. This allows customers to reduce the cost of
Effective November 17, 2020, Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux is generally available after a preview phase. This means that customers can bring their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions to a virtual machine in Azure and just pay
Effective November 1, 2020, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is added to the November 2020 Product Terms and generally available through the Enterprise Agreement (EA). This is an add-on license with a variety of qualifying licenses dependent on which healthcare scenarios are important to you
Until September 30, 2025, there is a promotion, offering 15% off Microsoft 365 E3/E5 to eligible, new-to-Microsoft 365 E3/E5 customers in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) licensing program. This is interesting for organizations transitioning from e.g., Office 365 E3 or a Microsoft competitor. On June 24, 2025, this promotion was
Until September 30, 2025, Microsoft is providing a discount of 15 % for 10 to 2400 seat purchases of Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. On April 21, 2025, the license cap with increased from 300 to 2400 licenses. On June 24, 2025, this promo has
Effective May 21, 2025, Microsoft has officially launched two new free offers regarding Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. These offers are now generally available and allow organizations to explore, develop, and test SQL workloads in Azure at no cost. Free SQL Managed Instance offer One General