Microsoft EES Program

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Microsoft EES - Simple and Affordable

The Microsoft EES (Enrollment for Education Solutions) offers schools, colleges and universities a very simple and affordable way to obtain and implement the latest in Microsoft technology and Microsoft Cloud Services using Software Express as their one stop shop by meeting their needs with only 1 simple Microsoft subscription agreement.

Microsoft EES - Simple accounting and administration
Schools only count their employees one time per year and they get all products for their entire institution. Included is Microsoft Software Assurance covering their Volume Licensing, and tools which they can use on a self service basis which simplifies their asset management. EES has officially replaced Microsoft Campus Agreement as of March 1, 2011.

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EES offers participating institutions the benefits of:

· Easy compliance. Through the simplicity and predictability of counting FTE employees just once per year, you can be confident that you are fully covered for the desktop platform products you’ve selected, regardless of yearly fluctuations in employees or devices.

· Customized solutions. Easily add additional products—either organization-wide, department-wide, or for individual licenses—at any time during your subscription term, so you can deliver the right mix of technology and services to your faculty, staff, and students.

· Simplified asset management. Self-service tools, such as the · Volume Licensing Service Center, enable you to easily track and manage your software assets and Software Assurance benefits from one convenient, online location.

· Low administration. Subscription licensing eliminates the need to track licenses for the selected desktop platform products on every PC and enables your IT staff to be more productive, since they no longer have to track multiple licenses across the institution.

· Lower total cost of ownership. Realize the maximum value from your licensing investment with included benefits, such as access to current technology, Work at Home Rights for faculty and staff, product evaluation rights, Software Assurance for Microsoft Volume Licensing, and Microsoft Live@edu.

· Student licensing. Through the Student Option, you can license your students for use of one or more of the available EES products on a personally owned computer or on an institution-owned computer designated for a student's exclusive use (for instance, a computer checked out to a student for the school year).

The Microsoft Volume Licensing Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) offering provides qualified academic customers, of all sizes, a simplified way to acquire Microsoft software and services under a single, subscription agreement. EES provides assured coverage for desktop platform products through one annual count of employees, the ability to add Additional Products as needed, student licensing options and the benefits of Software Assurance.

You may obtain EES subscription licenses one of two ways depending on the size of your organization.

· Customers with as few as five (5) Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees can license through an Authorized Education Reseller (AER) by signing the simplified Open Value Subscription Agreement for Education Solutions, online e-agreement.
· Larger customers with a minimum of 1,000 FTE employees may also license through a Large Account Reseller (LAR) by signing the Campus and School Agreement and the Enrollment for Education Solutions.
For more information about these purchasing options, please see the How to Buy section in this document.

Academic Volume Licensing Overview

For education customers who license software in quantity and manage software across multiple devices, Microsoft Volume Licensing programs may provide the most cost-effective way to acquire licenses.

Microsoft offers both “subscription” and “perpetual” volume licensing programs for education customers.

Subscription Licensing
With subscription licensing programs, you have the right to run a selection of products, and any upgrades or downgrades of those products, for a designated term. A subset of products including specific application, system, and Client Access License (CAL) products, designated by Microsoft as “desktop platform products,” are licensed on an organization-wide basis. For these “desktop platform products” you will place an order for a quantity that is equal to the number of Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees in your organization once per year. This way even if the number of devices or users grows, you remain fully licensed throughout the designated term, and you only need to report an increase in the number of your FTE employees on your annual order.

Microsoft has two subscription licensing offerings for education customers: the Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) and the School Enrollment.

· The Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) is available to both primary/secondary and higher education institutions. EES offers the simplicity of licensing desktop platform products organization-wide through an annual count of people instead of PCs/devices and the flexibility to add additional products in any quantity.
You may obtain EES subscription licenses one of two ways depending on the size of your organization.

o Customers with as few as five (5) Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees can license through an Authorized Education Reseller (AER) by signing the simplified Open Value Subscription Agreement for Education Solutions, online e-agreement.
o Larger customers with a minimum of 1,000 FTE employees may also license through a Large Account Reseller (LAR) by signing the Campus and School Agreement and the Enrollment for Education Solutions.

· The School Enrollment is for primary/secondary schools and preschools and offers the simplicity of licensing all products organization-wide where you can order any product for a quantity that matches the annual count of your organization’s PCs/devices.
The School Enrollment is for primary/secondary schools and preschools. It is an enrollment under the Campus and School Agreement that requires a minimum order of 300 units and may be licensed through an Authorized Education Reseller (AER).

The Enrollment for Education Solutions offering is explained in detail in this guide.

Enrollment for Education Solutions Introduction
Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) is an easy, cost-effective offer that provides qualified academic customers a simplified way to acquire Microsoft software and services under a single, subscription agreement. It offers benefits such as assured coverage for desktop platform products with one annual count of employees, the ability to easily add additional products in any quantity, self-service tools for simplified asset management, and immediate access to benefits such as product upgrades through Microsoft Software Assurance so you can boost the productivity of your faculty and staff and optimize the return on your technology investments. EES offers participating institutions the benefits of the following:

· Easy Compliance: Through the simplicity and predictability of counting FTE employees just once per year you can be confident you are fully covered for the desktop platform products you’ve selected regardless of yearly fluctuations in employees or devices.
· Customized Solutions: Easily add additional products either organization-wide, department-wide, or for individual licenses at any time during your subscription term so you can deliver the right mix of technology and services to your faculty, staff, and students.
o A broad selection of Microsoft software products, such as Microsoft Office Visio® drawing and diagramming software, Microsoft Office Project, Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the Windows Server® operating system, and Microsoft Exchange Server are available as Additional Products through EES.
o Student Licensing options are also available and provide a convenient and cost-effective way for you to license software and services for your students so they may collaborate easily and have access to the software they need.
· Simplified Asset Management: Self-service tools such as the Volume Licensing Service Center enable you to easily track and manage your software assets and Software Assurance benefits from one convenient, online location.
· Low Administration: Subscription licensing eliminates the need to track licenses for the selected desktop platform products on every PC which enables your IT staff to be more productive as they no longer have to track multiple licenses across the organization.
· Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Realize the maximum value from your licensing investment with included benefits such as access to current technology, Work at Home Rights for faculty and staff, product evaluation rights, Software Assurance for Microsoft Volume Licensing and Microsoft Live@edu.