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Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) is an easy, cost-effective licensing offer that provides academic institutions with assured coverage for desktop platform products with one annual employee count, the flexibility to add products in any quantity and simplified asset management—all under a single, evergreen subscription agreement.
In today’s complex education IT environments, the EES provides primary, secondary, and higher education institutions:
- An affordable volume based price and the rights to the latest Microsoft Enterprise software products, including: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Windows® 7 Enterprise, Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL) Suite, and Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (ECAL) Suite.
- The simplicity of counting FTE employees just once per year.
- Software Assurance; a powerful combination of benefits that include new version rights, the Home Use Program (HUP), and many other advantages, including tools, and training resources.
- A broad selection of additional Microsoft software products that may be licensed in any quantity.
- Live@edu, which provides email, calendars, document sharing, instant messaging, video chat, and mobile email accessible through many popular web browsers.
- Predictable annual payments with a one-year or three-year term option.
EES Features
Easy Compliance and Administration
When you license the desktop platform products or any additional products for use on all of the organization-owned or leased devices within the participating institution, your administrators and users know that the product use is covered. 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 institution-wide, during the subscription year. Any new faculty or staff members added to the participating institution 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. To license your students for running products on a device the student either personally owns or is institution-owned and is assigned for an individual student’s exclusive use, you may enroll in the Student Option (see The Student Option).
Wide Product Selection
You may order subscription licenses for a wide selection of Microsoft software through the EES program. Please refer to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Product List at http://microsoftvolumelicensing.com/ for a complete list of currently available products.
EES Desktop Platform Products
EES offers you access to the most recent releases of the EES desktop platform products*. To participate in EES, you start by choosing at least one of the following desktop platform products that you will license organization-wide. The EES desktop platform products are as follows:
- Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office for Mac 2011
- Microsoft Core CAL Suite** (Includes Windows Server Standard CAL, Exchange Server Standard CAL, SharePoint® Server Standard CAL, and System Center Configuration Manager CAL)
- Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite** (Includes all Core CAL Suite components plus Active Directory® Rights Management Services CAL, Exchange Server Enterprise CAL, SharePoint Server Enterprise CAL, Office Communications Server Standard CAL, Office Communications Server Enterprise CAL, System Center Client Management Suite*** CAL, Forefront® Protection Suite CAL, and Forefront Unified Access Gateway*** CAL)
*The products listed may be replaced by successor products, which in-turn will also be considered desktop platform products.
**Individual CAL Suite components must be ordered organization-wide but are not desktop platform products.
***Suite additions currently planned and would be available with active Software Assurance coverage on or after the products become available for purchase in Volume Licensing. Because Microsoft must be able to respond to changing market conditions, these plans are subject to change at any time.
You may select individual EES desktop platform products to license organization-wide, or you may license an EES Education Desktop platform suite, which combines your Windows upgrade, Office, and CAL Suite licenses into one convenient SKU at a price that offers savings when compared to the cost of licensing those products individually.
The EES Education Desktop platform suites include:
| EDUCATION DESKTOP WITH CORE CAL SUITE | EDUCATION DESKTOP WITH ENTERPRISE CAL SUITE |
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You can also acquire the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance as part of your Professional Desktop Platform Suite or Enterprise Desktop Platform Suite, making it easier for you to license MDOP that is consistent with the acquisition of the rest of your platform selection.
Additional Products
A broad selection of software and services are available as additional products under your EES. They provide the same License & Software Assurance coverage as desktop platform products. . With the exception of Core CAL Suite or ECAL Suite component CALs (which must be licensed organization-wide based on your FTE employee count), additional products may be licensed for any quantity specified by the organization, ranging from one license to the entire FTE employee count.
Examples of software products available as additional products include Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Project, Windows Server, and Exchange Server. Examples of CALs available as additional products include the SQL Server CALs and Dynamics CRM Server CALs. Examples of Online Services include Business Productivity Online Suite, Deskless Worker Suite, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online. You can see a complete list of additional products on the Microsoft Product List at www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/PL.aspx.
When you license additional products organization-wide, the software may be deployed on any institution-owned or leased device, including the institution’s labs, and can be used by any faculty, staff, or student belonging to the institution. (Not covered by the organization-wide count are student-owned devices and organization-owned devices that are assigned to an individual student.)
