Jump to: Page Content, Site Navigation, Site Search, Site Map

About Licensing

Product Licensing Search

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.

SharePoint Server 2010
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.

Please scroll down the page to view the information provided by each link.

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.

Print
Click for Chart Key Mouse-over each column header for additional information
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
SharePoint™ Server 2010 04/10 SRV 50 125 100 75 75 50 25 50 100 50 50 A, S P    
SharePoint™ Server 2010 Enterprise CAL 04/10 SRV 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1   A,D P    
SharePoint™ Server 2010 Standard CAL 04/10 SRV 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1   A      
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

 

SharePoint Server 2010

Exceptional Downgrade Rights for SharePoint Server 2010
This downgrade right is an alternative to customers’ programmatic downgrade rights from SharePoint Server 2010 to SharePoint Server 2007. Customers licensed for SharePoint Server 2010 may use and access copies of the following software in place of licensed copies of SharePoint Server 2010:

Qualifying SharePoint Server 2010 Licenses Downgrade Rights equal to
Each SharePoint Server 2010 Server license One PerformancePoint Server 2007 license and one SharePoint Server 2007 license
Each set of one SharePoint Server 2010 Standard CAL and one SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise CAL A set of one PerformancePoint Server 2007 CAL, one SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL and one SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
For each SharePoint Server 2010 license, the customer may run either or both SharePoint Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007 on one device in place of SharePoint Server 2010. If the customer wishes to run SharePoint Server 2007 and Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 on separate devices, the customer will need to acquire an additional SharePoint Server 2010 license. For each set of SharePoint Server 2010 Standard and Enterprise CALs, a single device or user may access instances of PerformancePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007.

A customer’s right to use and access PerformancePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 is subject to the terms and conditions of a customer’s license agreement, the product use rights for SharePoint Server 2010 and these terms. That right expires upon the expiration or termination of the right to use software under the qualifying licenses (for example, complimentary licenses received under subscription programs expire when the qualifying licenses expire).

Other rights related to Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

All downgrade rights from and upgrade rights to Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 are described in the PerformancePoint Server 2007 endnotes in the April 2010 Product List.

Migration path for PerformancePoint Server 2007 and Forms Server 2007

Volume Licensing customers who meet the criteria below are eligible to upgrade the qualifying licenses to Office SharePoint Server 2007 licenses as described below:

Qualifying License and Software Assurance Criteria Are eligible for following per qualifying license...
PerformancePoint Server 2007 License is enrolled in Software Assurance as of April 1, 2009 Two Office SharePoint Server 2007 Server Licenses
PerformancePoint Server 2007 CAL License is enrolled in Software Assurance as of April 1, 2009 One Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL and One Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
Forms Server 2007 License is enrolled in Software Assurance as of April 1, 2009 One Office SharePoint Server 2007 Server License
Forms Server 2007 CAL License is enrolled in Software Assurance as of April 1, 2009 One Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL and One Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
This offer is also valid for customers whose PerformancePoint Server 2007 licenses were obtained as the result of a migration from another product, as long as the customer has active SA for those licenses as of April 1, 2009.

Customers may run and access any later version of SharePoint Server 2007 made available during the term of their qualifying Software Assurance coverage for PerformancePoint Server 2007 software and/or CALs and Forms Server 2007 software and/or CALs, respectively. Customers’ right to use and access SharePoint Server 2007 software (or any later version) is evidenced by this product condition note and evidence of their corresponding qualifying licenses and Software Assurance (or equivalent coverage) for the qualifying licenses. The right to use and access SharePoint Server 2007 (or any later version) under this offer is in place of the right to use and access software under the qualifying license. A customer’s right to use SharePoint Server 2007 software (or any later version) under this grant is subject to the terms and conditions of its volume licensing agreement and the product use rights for that software. That right expires upon the expiration or termination of the right to use software under the qualifying licenses.

Downgrade Rights for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Customers licensed for Office SharePoint Server 2007 may use and access Forms Server 2007 as follows:
Qualifying Office SharePoint Server 2007 Licenses Downgrade Rights equal to
Each Office SharePoint Server 2007 Server License One Forms Server 2007 license
Each set of one Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL and one Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL One Forms Server 2007 CAL


A customer may use either SharePoint Server 2007 or Forms Server 2007 under a SharePoint Server 2007 license. A customer may use a set of SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise CALs to access both SharePoint Server 2007 and Forms Server 2007. A customer’s right to use and access Forms Server 2007 expires upon the expiration or termination of their right to use and access Office SharePoint Server 2007 under their qualifying Office SharePoint Server 2007 licenses. Use of Forms Server 2007 is subject to the terms and conditions of a customer’s license agreement and the product use rights for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Other rights related to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites

The accommodation for simultaneous use of server software under Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites is described in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 endnotes in the April 2010 Product List.

SharePoint™ Server 2010 Standard CAL

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.

Volume Licensing Resources