VLSC December 2009 Release

Release Date: December 7th, 2009

Agenda

1. Release Overview

2. Tool Consolidation

3. Registration & User Management

4. Simplified Terms & Conditions for Open

5. Help & Support

6. Appendix

View the PowerPoint Notes Section for detailed notes.

Section 1Release Overview

Release Overview

This release is scheduled for December 7, 2009

Highlighted Features:

• A single, integrated portal for managing all Volume Licensing IDs, including Enterprise, Select, Select Plus, Open and Open Value

• Retirement of eOpen & MVLS.

• A simplified invitation & registration process based on a user’s business email address.

• A rich permission model, providing Agreement Administrators more flexibility.

• Streamlined Terms & Conditions experience for Open License customers.

VLSC- Features and Capabilities

RELEASED• License Statement

• Enhanced Product Download

• Access to Product Activation Keys

• License Reporting Dashboard

• Software Assurance Benefit Summary

PLANNED FUTURE RELEASES• User Administration (December 2009)

• Benefit Management (2011)

• Subscription Management (2011)

Customer Benefits

• Ease of use: simplified sign-in and access to self-service functions.

• Provides an accurate understanding of a customer’s licensing status.

• Includes easy access to downloadable licensed products, reducing the need for ordering media kits.

• To opt out of media kits altogether, check out Digital By Choice, www.digitalbychoice.com .

• Many new products are available for download within 10 days of release.

Partner Call to Action

Provide training and promote awareness for this release.

The following training resources are available to you:

• This presentation and a Customer-ready User Guide and Fact Sheet.

• Available for download on https://www.explore.ms and https://partners.microsoft.com on release date.

For Open License Program, remember to include Customer e-mail address on the license.

Section 2One Licensing Portal

Retirement of eOpen and MVLS

The VLSC will provide a single, integrated portal for managing all volume licensing agreements, including Enterprise, Select, Select Plus, Open and Open Value.  • eOpen and Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS) will be retired, with

automatic re-directs in place to VLSC.

• All user accounts and registered Licensing IDs will be migrated seamlessly.

Section 3 Registration & User Management

Registration

Users can now register using a Windows Live ID and business email address.

User Permissions

User Management

• More flexibility and control will be added to the user management section.

• Permissions include access to product keys, downloads, Software Assurance (SA) Management and subscription manager.

• Permission structure will change from per-user to per-user-and- agreement.

• The Administrator role can restrict permissions to different pages, such as Product Keys and downloads based on agreement, enrollment and affiliate.

• When eOpen is retired, all Open Customers will be migrated as VLSC administrators for their open licenses.

This is a great opportunity for customers and partners to review and change their permissions as necessary and for Open customers to set up their permission structure for the first time.

User Management

Permissions are assigned per Licensing ID and not per user.

Adding more Licensing IDs

Further Licensing IDs can be added to the user’s profile via the Request Permission page.

Access Permissions

FAQ for additional help

Select each role you are requesting

Section 4Simplified Terms & Conditions for Open Customers

Terms & Conditions for Open

One click to get through the T&C’s for all Open Licenses

Downloads

Downloads Section

View available Downloads

Click on the Product Link to begin Download

View more products in this product family

What Products can I download?

Users who can access Downloads:

• eOpen User

• MVLS User with User + VLK or Admin role

Available Products:

• As per the customer’s entitlement

• All available languages

• N-1 versions

• Retail products not available

Feature Highlight:

• Suspend and Resume functionality

http://selectug.mslicense.com

Entire Volume Licensing catalogue

Open / Open ValuePrograms

Products included in the License Summary

What Products can I download?

“Try before you Buy”Programs

Product Keys

Product Keys Section

View Product Keys

Filter Product Keys

Learn more about Product Keys

View Key Type

What Product Keys can I view?

Volume License product keys are provided for each Licensing ID listed in the Microsoft Relationship Summary. • Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers receive all possible Volume License keys.

• Select Agreement customers receive keys per product pool based on their volume forecasts.

• Select Plus Agreement customers receive all possible Volume License keys.

• Open License and Open Value customers receive keys that match the licenses purchased.

All Product Keys can be found on the same page. Multiple Activation Keys (MAKs) no longer need to be requested via a separate page. They will be assigned as all other product keys are currently assigned.

Volume License Product Key information: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/vol/volumelicensekey/default.mspx

Volume Activation

With Volume Licensing for products such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, you must use a new type of product activation called Volume Activation (VA). To activate these operating systems with VA, you can use either a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) or Key Management Service (KMS), requiring a KMS key.

Learn more about Volume Activation, MAK and KMS keys here: http://www.technet.com/volumeactivation

Help & Support

Self-help and Support

Appendix

Home Page

Homepage Navigation

Top Menu Navigation

Notifications and What’s New Area

Main Tasks

Link back to SA Benefit Management System

Self-help

OLS & Subscriptions

OLS

Access OLS section

Link to view OLS list

Subscriptions

Access Subscriptions page

Link to CSC to assign MSDN Benefits

Link to TechNet Registration Tool

Link to Software Assurance Summary

Software Assurance

Software Assurance Benefits

View Benefits across all Agreements

Access SA Benefits Summary

SA Benefit Manager can assign managers to individual benefits

SA Benefits Details

Licensing IDs now hyperlinkedNew!

View Benefits for each Agreement

Link to SA Benefit Management System to activate & manage benefits

Licensing Information

Licensing Information Features

Parent Program (Select / EA / CASA)

Offerings

Contacts

Performance Summary (Select)

Related Licensing IDs

Licensing ID (Select / EA / CASA /

Open / OV)

Offerings

Contacts

License Summary

Orders

What is Licensing ID / Parent Program?

Program Text Displayed for <Licensing ID>

Text Displayed for <Parent Program>

Select, Enterprise, CASA Enrollment Master Agreement

Select Plus Public Customer Number Agreement

Open Value, Open Value Subscription Agreement N/A

Open License License Authorisation Number

Relationship Summary

Relationship Summary

Access Relationship Summary

Filtered on active Licensing IDs by defaultAccess

Licensing ID Details

Access Order Details by Licensing ID

Access Parent Program Details

Parent Program

Offerings: Product Pools, Pricing Levels and Software Assurance membership

Licensing ID Header displays the Enrollment details

Offering details displayed

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