Software Assurance Benefits by Product

Software Assurance (SA) augments on-premises product licenses with a variety of benefits including rights to new versions of the licensed software released during the SA coverage period, use rights that provide the most cost effective way to enable specific usage scenarios (such as virtualization), and a collection of miscellaneous benefits of a small but discernable market value compared to the overall SA spend.  The linked Licensing Reference Set entries below detail the SA benefits for major Microsoft products, identifying high-value benefits that may justify the additional cost and low value benefits that don’t.

• Core CAL Suite SA Benefits
• Core Infrastructure Server Suite SA Benefits
• Enterprise CAL Suite SA Benefits
• Dynamics 365 Server SA Benefits
• Dynamics 365 for Operations Server SA Benefits
• Exchange Server SA Benefits
• Office SA Benefits
• Project Server SA Benefits
• SharePoint Server SA Benefits
• Skype for Business Server SA Benefits
• SQL Server SA Benefits
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