SA Renewal in Select Plus

Select Plus requires longer terms for purchases of Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft’s upgrade and maintenance add-on for licenses. Shown here is a renewal schedule for four SA purchases under the Select Plus program, on an agreement started at year 0.

Initial orders of SA in Select Plus always run for 36 months. This contrasts with Select, where SA purchases run for the remaining term of the Select agreement under which they were purchased, which can mean 12, 24, or 36 months (because any fraction of a year is counted as a full year). The Select Plus rule also means more expiration dates to track: as shown here, each of the four initial SA orders has its own corresponding expiration date 36 months later, whereas four SA purchases on a single Select agreement would share a single common expiration date—the final date of the Select agreement.

If an organization renews SA on a license in Select Plus, Microsoft will align the new renewal date to an anniversary boundary, by offering a renewal that lasts from 25 to 36 months, and whose price is prorated to reflect the length of the extension. For example, the first two SA purchases shown above are started partway through the first year of a Select Plus agreement, and would normally expire between its third and fourth anniversaries. The organization can buy a 33-month extension for the first purchase and a 27-month extension for the second purchase, so that both fall due on the sixth anniversary of the contract.