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Newsletter. Contents Project Pro for Office 365 and Project Online plans replaced by new plans - NEW 2 ▶ Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 2 ▶ Project Online Professional and Premium Cloud Add-on Promotion Available for Project Standard Customers - NEW 2 ▶ Windows 10, EMS and ECS name changes - NEW 3 ▶ Azure EMS suite changes - NEW 3 ▶ R Server Products added to Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW 3 ▶ SQL Server 2016 4 ▶ Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ What’s new and free in O365? Yammer by Default - NEW 4 ▶ Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 5 ▶ Skype for Business Sell-to Countries Coming Soon - NEW 5 ▶ Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 5 ▶ Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term Subscriptions 6 ▶ Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 7 ▶ Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 7 ▶ Schools Discount Now Available Via a MoU 8 ▶ MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 8 ▶ Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - NEW 9 ▶ Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 9 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing BOOK YOUR LIVE SESSION 10 ▶ Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 10 ▶ Insight, your Trusted Advisor Insight’s vision is to be the Trusted Advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. Keeping up to date with all the latest news and information you need direct from your reseller. Your Trusted Advisor xx.xxxxxxx.xxx 0800 333 333 1st

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Contents Project Pro for Office 365 and Project Online plans replaced by new plans - NEW 2 ▶ Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 2 ▶ Project Online Professional and Premium Visio Cloud Add-on Promotion ons Available for Project Standard Customers - NEW and Promotions – NOW Available 2 ▶ Windows 10, EMS and ECS name changes - NEW 3 ▶ Azure EMS suite changes - NEW 3 ▶ R Server Products added u Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on to Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW 3 ▶ Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 u SQL Server 2016 4 ▶ 3 u O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 u SQL Server 2014 Developer being Discontinued 3 u Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ u Upgrade to Office 365 Plan E5 Promotional Step Up 5 u Windows Roaming Rights Removed 6 u Visual Studio Professional MSDN / Enterprise MSDN Step-up Promotion for 60 days ONLY – NEW 6 u Welcome to Windows 10 Promo Extended to 30th June 2016 – NEW Extension 7 u What’s new and free in O365? Yammer by Default - – NEW 4 ▶ 7 u Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 5 ▶ 7 u Skype for Business Sell-to Countries Coming Soon - – NEW 5 ▶ 8 u Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - – PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 5 ▶ 8 u Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term Subscriptions 6 ▶ 9 u Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 7 ▶ 10 u Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - – NEW 7 ▶ 10 u Schools Discount Now Available Via a MoU 8 ▶ 11 u SharePoint Explorer: What's New in SharePoint 2016 – NEW 11 u MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 8 ▶ Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - NEW 9 ▶ 12 u Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing. Book your live session 13 u Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 9 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing BOOK YOUR LIVE SESSION 10 ▶ 13 u VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Centre) Scheduled Downtime – NEW May to June AFFECTS YOU NOW 14 u Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 10 ▶ 14 u Insight, your Trusted Advisor Insight’s vision is to be the Trusted Advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. Keeping up to date with all the latest news and information you need direct from your reseller. Your Trusted Advisor • xx.xxxxxxx.xxx • 0800 333 333 1stNOW available Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons Available for Customers As of March 2016 Cloud Add-ons will be available for Project and Visio customers. Add-ons enable hybrid customer scenarios through enablement of cloud services while retaining the licensing security of their traditional on premise licenses and active Software Assurance. With Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons, any EA/EAS, OV/OVS or MPSA customer can leverage their existing on-premise Project or Visio licenses as a starting point to get great pricing on Project Online w/ Project Pro for O365, Project Pro for O365, Project Online and Visio Pro for O365, through an easy Cloud Add-on purchasing model. With Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons, a customer’s underlying on-premise licensing position does not change. Customers continue to license their users and devices like they always have, and receive all of their corresponding SA benefits - including new version rights. The Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons are available to all new, mid-term/current and renewing Project Professional, Project Standard, Project CAL, Visio Professional and Visio Standard customers. The offer is available to all corporate, and government accounts. Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License Add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite È As of the 1st March 2016, the pricing of the Skype for Business Plus Client Access License (CAL) Add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite (ECS) is being lowered to match pricing for the Skype for Business PlusCAL Add-on. CAL Add-on to E3. This alignment results in a price decrease of approximately 15 percent for the Skype for Business Plus CAL Add-in to ECS. Pricing for the Skype for Business Plus CAL Add-on to ECS will be aligned to the Skype for BusinessPlus “ Please speak to your Insight Trusted Advisor for further details ” 1st MAR Customers have several options to add cloud services on top of their existing Project and Visio on-premise licenses. The cloud Add-ons available to a specific customer is mer’s determined by that custo underlying license position. Act now as between 1st March and 30th June 2016 MS are offering a 20-30% off on Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons. Targeted customer segments include Commercial and Government. This offer will be available in the EA, EAS, OLV, OVS, MPSA, and WWGP programs. 20-30% OFF Offer: 20-30% off on Project Online w/ Project Pro for O365, Project Pro for O365, Visio Pro for O365. Eligibility: Standard Add-on eligibility requirements: Must have underlying Project and/or Visio SA license. Program(s): EA, EAS, OLV, OVS, MPSA, WWGP Geography: Worldwide “ Please speak to your Trusted Advisor today for more information and pricing ” Promo Dates: 1st March - 30th June 2016 For more information PLEASE READ THE MS XXXXXXXXX u O365 Lockbox available for Education Effective as of the 1st March 2016 Microsoft will make O365 Customer Lockbox available to EDU customers. Customer Lockbox gives customers explicit control in the very rare instances when a Microsoft engineer may need access to customer content to resolve a customer issue. “ Please speak to your Education Account Manager for more information ” SQL Server 2016 The newest public preview of SQL Server 2016 is now available for download. It is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft’s data platform history with real-time operational analytics, rich visualisations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios. SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition being Discontinued As of 31st March 2106 SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition is being discontinued as a paid Volume Licensing program offering and instead, will be made available as part of the (free) Visual Studio Dev Essentials program. SQL Server Developer Edition license offerings will no longer be sold in Volume Licensing. DO CLICK HERE TO WNLO AD 31st MAR Windows Server and System Centre 2016 Licensing Changes What’s changing? The licensing of the Datacentre and Standard Editions will move from processors to physical cores, aligning with the licensing model for SQL. The minimum license requirement will be 8 cores per processor, 16 cores each server. Licenses for Servers with 8 cores or less per proc will be the same price as the 2012 R2 two-proc license price.

Newsletter. Contents Azure-only SCE Minimum is Changing - NEW 2 u Project Pro for Office 365 and Project Online plans replaced Plans Replaced by new plans New Plans - NEW 2 ▶ u Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 2 ▶ 3 u Project Online Professional and Premium Cloud Add-on ons Promotion Available for Project Standard Customers - NEW 2 ▶ 3 u Windows 10, EMS and ECS name changes Name Changes - NEW 3 ▶ 4 u Azure EMS suite changes Suite Changes - NEW 3 ▶ 4 u R Server Products added to Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW 3 ▶ 4 u SQL Server 2016 4 ▶ 5 u Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ What’s new 5 u E5 and free in O365? Yammer by Default - NEW 4 ▶ Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 5 ▶ Skype for Business Sell-to Countries Coming Soon Availability Update - NEW 5 ▶ 6 u Announcing Enterprise Advantage on MPSA: A Better Way to Buy Organisation-Wide - NEW 6 u Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 5 ▶ 6 u Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term Subscriptions 6 ▶ 7 u Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 7 ▶ 8 u Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 7 ▶ 8 u Schools Discount Now Available Via a via MoU 8 ▶ 9 u The Insight Technology Show - Manchester, 2016 9 u MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 8 ▶ 10 u Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - NEW 9 ▶ 11 u Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 9 ▶ 11 u Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing BOOK YOUR LIVE SESSION 10 ▶ - Book your live session 12 u Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 10 ▶ 12 u Insight, your Trusted Advisor Insight’s vision is to be the Trusted Advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. Keeping up to date with all the latest news and information you need direct from your reseller. Your Trusted Advisor • xx.xxxxxxx.xxx • 0800 333 333 NEW Azure-only SCE Minimum is Changing New Policy Change FAQs Current Policy 1st

Newsletter. Contents Project Pro for Office 365 and Project Online plans replaced by new plans - NEW 2 ▶ Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 2 ▶ Project Online Professional and Premium Visio Cloud Add-on Promotion ons Available for Project Standard Customers and Promotions - NEW NOW Available 2 ▶ Windows 10, EMS and ECS name changes - NEW Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 ▶ SQL Server 2016 3 ▶ Azure EMS suite changes - NEW 3 ▶ R Server Products added to Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 ▶ SQL Server 2016 4 2014 Developer being discontinued 3 ▶ Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ What’s new and free in O365? Yammer by Default Upgrade to Office 365 Plan E5 Promotional Step Up 5 ▶ Windows Roaming Rights Removed 6 ▶ Visual Studio Professional MSDN - Enterprise MSDN Step-up Promotion for 60 days ONLY - NEW 4 6 ▶ Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 5 ▶ Skype for Business Sell-Welcome to Countries Coming Soon Windows 10 Promo extended to 30th June 2016 - NEW 5 Extension 7 ▶ Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - NEW : PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 5 7 ▶ Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term Subscriptions 6 subscriptions 8 ▶ Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 7 9 ▶ Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 7 9 ▶ Schools Discount Now Available Via now available via a MoU 8 10 ▶ FastTrack Adoption for O365 and EMS Helping with your Migration - NEW DON'T MISS OUT 10 ▶ MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 8 ▶ Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - NEW 9 EFFECTIVE 16th May 11 ▶ Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 9 11 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing BOOK YOUR LIVE SESSION 10 - Book your live session now 12 ▶ Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 10 12 ▶ Insight, your Trusted Advisor Insight’s vision is to be the Trusted Advisor to our clients, helping them enhance their business performance through innovative technology solutions. Keeping up to date with all the latest news and information you need direct from your reseller. Your Trusted Advisor • xx.xxxxxxx.xxx • 0800 333 333 1stNOW NEW Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons Available for Customers available As of March 2016 Cloud Add-ons will be available for Project and Visio customers. Add-ons enable hybrid customer scenarios through enablement of cloud services while retaining the licensing security of their traditional on premise licenses and active Software Assurance. With Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons, any EA/EAS, OV/OVS or MPSA customer can leverage their existing on-premise Project or Visio licenses as a starting point to get great pricing on Project Online w/ Project Pro for O365, Project Pro for O365, Project Online and Visio Pro for O365, through an easy Cloud Add-on purchasing model. With Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons, a customer’s underlying on-premise licensing position does not change. Customers continue to license their users and devices like they always have, and receive all of their corresponding SA benefits - including new version rights. The Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons are available to all new, mid-term/current and renewing Project Professional, Project Standard, Project CAL, Visio Professional and Visio Standard customers. The offer is available to all corporate, and government accounts. Customers have several options to add cloud services on top of their existing Project and Visio on-premise licenses. The cloud Add-ons available to a specific customer is mer’s determined by that custo underlying license position. Act now as between 1st March and 30th June 2016 MS are offering a 20-30% off on Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons. Targeted customer segments include Commercial and Government. This offer will be available in the EA, EAS, OLV, OVS, MPSA, and WWGP programs. 20-30% OFF “ Please speak to your Trusted Advisor today for more information and pricing ” NEW Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License Add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite 1st MAR As of the 1st March 2016, the pricing of the Skype for Business Plus Client Access License (CAL) Add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite (ECS) is being lowered to match pricing for the Skype for Business PlusCAL Add-on. Pricing for the Skype for Business Plus CAL Add-on to ECS will be aligned to the Skype for BusinessPlus CAL Add-on to E3. This alignment results in a price dec xxxxx “ Please speak to your Insight Trusted Advisor for further details ” of approximately 15 percent for the Skype for Business Plus CAL Add-in to ECS.