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What’s happening? It’s quite common for organisations to use a perpetual license of Office to access their Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, E1 etc. Microsoft have announced a change to Office 365 support requirements that may mean a change of strategy for some organisations: “Starting...
Visual Studio 2017 The latest release of Visual Studio is now in the Product Terms. Editions available are: Professional 2017 Professional 2017 Subscription Enterprise 2017 Subscription Test Professional 2017 Subscription MSDN Platforms This can be found on pages 35/36 of the April...
We’re excited to announce our latest training offering for 2017 – a one day UK Microsoft Licensing Training Course, delivered by Microsoft Licensing Expert Rich Gibbons. This is an ideal session if you and your organisation would benefit from more information on licensing...
Your PC uses a processor that isn’t supported on this version of Windows Microsoft announced towards the end of 2016 that Windows 10 would be the only supported operating system for the new 7th generation of CPUs, including Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Bristol Ridge. There have been...
Premium Assurance adds an additional six years of product support for Windows Server and SQL Server Product Terms Premium Assurance The big addition to this month’s Product Terms is the availability of Premium Assurance. What is it? These new offerings are aimed at organisations...
Following Rich joining The ITAM Review team last week, we thought we catch up with the Microsoft Licensing Guru himself on a Podcast to discuss the current hot topics in Microsoft Licensing. Podcast Topics Introducing Rich Gibbons Premises & The Cloud Azure & Office 365 Steve...
Keeping up with changes to Microsoft product terms is a full time job! In this article Rich Gibbons provides an update to the key changes for January and February 2017. Microsoft Product Terms changes – January 2017 System Center Client Management Suite This license was a...
The bumps in the road when upgrading to Office 365 and how to overcome them A number of organisations who have already gone through this process may have already experienced this, but for those of you who are thinking about upgrading to Office 365, there is a slight bump in the road...
Christopher Brune, Consultant, Aspera GmbH I recently spoke with Christopher Brune, consultant at Aspera, about Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter licensing. ITAM Review: Christopher, let’s introduce you to the reader. What is it like to be Mr. Christopher Brune working at Aspera? Christopher...
Back in October 2014 we published a comparison of four SAM tools with Microsoft License Management capabilities (See: Microsoft License Management Group Test – The Results). This previous group test above was based on a questionnaire completed by participating vendors and an online...