Comparing New Enterprise Enrollments

New server licensing enrollments have different licensing rules, particularly in terms of how older licenses are handled, how the licensing model is applied to all purchases, and what happens to perpetual license rights when the agreement terminates and Software Assurance (SA) subscriptions end.

Perpetual license rights refer to license rights gained during the term of an SA subscription. In most cases, a customer with an SA subscription for a license has rights to any new version of that product released while their SA subscription is enforced, regardless of whether they actually deploy the product or not. The Enrollment for Application Platform (EAP) offers an exception to this rule if SA was not in force for a covered product before the EAP was signed: upgrades to such licenses are permitted only as long as the EAP is in effect and renewed; on its termination, those license rights revert to whatever version of the product was licensed before the EAP was signed.

A “true-up,” in Microsoft parlance, refers to a reckoning at an anniversary date during which time the number of licenses in use is reconciled with the license payments the customer has made, and additional payments are made if the number of licenses in use exceeds the number paid for.