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Product Licensing Web is now Product Licensing Search, providing quick access to licensing terms, conditions and supplemental information relevant to the use of products licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

Enterprise CAL
On this page, you can find information for a particular product or product family. This information is taken directly from the Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights and the Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing documents.

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Product Use Rights

For specific details on a particular product, and how that product may be deployed and used, customers should review the Definitions and General Use Rights and Restrictions for each applicable Microsoft software and product.
Note: Not all software and products may have rights and restrictions, also known as "exceptions", per product category.

Product List
The Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing provides information monthly about Microsoft software and Online Services licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

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DA SAB Select/Select Plus Open Campus &
School Units		 EA &
EA Sub		 OV/OVS Open
License
Minimum		 Online
Subscription
Program
L L&SA SA L L&SA SA
  3YR 2YR 1YR 3YR 2YR 1YR P
Enterprise CAL Suite (Device & User CAL) 10/06 SRV   5 4 3 3 2 1       2 E      
Note: If the cell for the product is blank then the product is not currently offered in the program.
*For Select Plus only the ‘L’ and three year values for ‘L&SA’ / ’SA’ will be used.

Product Notes

 

Enterprise CAL Suite (Device & User)

Enterprise CAL Suite is versionless and product use rights are determined by the status of Enterprise CAL Suite Software Assurance coverage. If coverage lapsed, access rights under perpetual licenses are determined based on the product use rights in effect prior to the lapse in coverage. Rights associated with Online Services offerings expire upon lapse of Software Assurance coverage, whether or not the Enterprise CAL Suite is perpetual. As of May 1, 2010, a license for the Enterprise CAL Suite with active Software Assurance coverage provides rights equivalent to the following: All of the current components of the Core CAL Suite, all of the current components of the Forefront Protection Suite*, Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise CAL, SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise CAL, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard CAL, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise CAL, Windows Server 2008 Rights Management Services CAL, Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 CAL and all of the current components of the System Center Client Management Suite. A license for the Enterprise CAL Suite is a single license that must be assigned to a single user or device. As provided in their volume license agreement, customers cannot separate the rights under the Enterprise CAL Suite to permit two or more users or devices to access its different components at the same time.

Forefront Protection Suite
Forefront Protection Suite is versionless and product use rights are those in effect during the term of corresponding Enterprise CAL Suite Software Assurance coverage. A subscription to Forefront Protection Suite consists of the following online services: Forefront Client Security, Forefront for Office Communications Server (formerly Antigen for Instant Messaging), Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (formerly Exchange Hosted Filtering), Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Service and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Server.

System Center Client Management Suite
System Center Client Management Suite is versionless and product use rights are those in effect during the term of corresponding Enterprise CAL Suite Software Assurance coverage. System Center Client Management Suite provides rights equivalent to the following: System Center Operations Manager Client Management License, System Center Data Protection Manager Client Management License, and System Center Service Manager Client Management License.

Student Only CALs (Academic Open License and Academic Select)
Student Only CALs are restricted to license student owned PCs or institution owned PCs dedicated to an individual student and are NOT for use in labs or classrooms.


Please remember: The terms and conditions of your volume license agreement, and the product use rights documented in that agreement, govern your use of products licensed from Microsoft. While we have endeavored to facilitate your access to and understanding of the product use rights through this online tool, your use of this site should not serve as a substitute for reading and understanding your volume license agreement. We will work to keep the contents of this site consistent with the governing volume license documentation, but in the case of conflicting content, you should refer to the terms and conditions of your agreement.

If you acquire licenses under the GSA our GIA programs, please contact your reseller or Microsoft licensing executive for the applicable license agreement/product use rights.

Note, because of the way that the Product Use Rights are designed, some provisions may appear that relate to other products, as noted in these pages.

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