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Newsletter. Contents Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons Available for Customers and Promotions - NOW Available 2 ▶ Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 ▶ SQL Server 2016 3 ▶ O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 ▶ SQL Server 2014 Developer being discontinued 3 ▶ Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ 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 6 ▶ Welcome to Windows 10 Promo extended to 30th June 2016 - NEW Extension 7 ▶ Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - NEW : PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 7 ▶ Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term subscriptions 8 ▶ Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 9 ▶ Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 9 ▶ Schools Discount now available via a MoU 10 ▶ FastTrack Adoption for O365 and EMS Helping with your Migration - NEW DON'T MISS OUT 10 ▶ MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal - EFFECTIVE 16th May 11 ▶ Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 11 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing - Book your live session now 12 ▶ Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 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 NOW 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.

Newsletter. Contents Project and Visio Cloud Add-ons Available for Customers and Promotions - – NOW Available 2 ▶ u Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 ▶ u SQL Server 2016 3 ▶ u O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 ▶ u SQL Server 2014 Developer being discontinued 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 Extended to 30th June 2016 - – NEW Extension 7 ▶ u What’s new and free in O365? Yammer by Default – NEW 7 u Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 7 u Skype for Business Sell-to Countries Coming Soon – NEW 8 u Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - NEW : – PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 7 ▶ 8 u Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term subscriptions 8 ▶ Subscriptions 9 u Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 9 ▶ 10 u Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - – NEW 9 ▶ 10 u Schools Discount now available via Now Available Via a MoU 10 ▶ FastTrack Adoption for O365 and EMS Helping with your Migration - 11 u SharePoint Explorer: What's New in SharePoint 2016 – NEW DON'T MISS OUT 10 ▶ 11 u MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal - EFFECTIVE 16th May 11 ▶ 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) 11 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing - Book your live session now 12 ▶ 13 u VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Centre) Scheduled Downtime – NEW May to June AFFECTS YOU NOW 14 u Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 12 ▶ 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 NOW NEW available 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. 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 ” NEW Price Decrease Promo Dates: 1st March - 30th June 2016 For more information PLEASE READ THE MS XXXXXXXXX u O365 Lockbox available for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License Add-on to Enterprise Cloud Suite 1st MAR As Education Effective as of the 1st March 2016, 2016 Microsoft will make O365 Customer Lockbox available to EDU customers. Customer Lockbox gives customers explicit control in the pricing of the Skype for Business Plus Client Access License (CAL) Add-on very rare instances when a Microsoft engineer may need access to Enterprise Cloud Suite (ECS) is being lowered customer content to match pricing for the Skype for Business PlusCAL Add-onresolve a customer issue. 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 Education Account Manager for further details more information ” SQL Server 2016 The newest public preview of approximately 15 percent SQL Server 2016 is now available for download. It is the Skype for Business Plus CAL Addbiggest 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 ECSphysical 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 Project Pro for Office 365 and Visio Project Online plans replaced by new plans - NEW 2 ▶ Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 2 ▶ Project Online Professional and Premium Cloud Add-ons on Promotion Available for Project Standard Customers and Promotions - NOW Available NEW 2 ▶ Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on Windows 10, EMS and ECS name changes - NEW 3 ▶ Azure EMS suite changes - NEW 3 ▶ R Server Products added to Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW 3 ▶ SQL Server 2016 3 ▶ O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 ▶ SQL Server 2014 Developer being discontinued 3 4 ▶ Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ Upgrade to Office 365 Plan E5 Promotional Step Up What’s new and free in O365? Yammer by Default - NEW 4 ▶ Azure New Features Now Readily Available – NEW 5 ▶ Windows Roaming Rights Removed 6 ▶ Visual Studio Professional MSDN - Enterprise MSDN StepSkype for Business Sell-up Promotion for 60 days ONLY to Countries Coming Soon - NEW 6 ▶ Welcome to Windows 10 Promo extended to 30th June 2016 - NEW Extension 7 5 ▶ Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - NEW : PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 7 5 ▶ Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term subscriptions 8 Subscriptions 6 ▶ Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 9 7 ▶ Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 9 7 ▶ Schools Discount now available via Now Available Via a MoU 10 ▶ FastTrack Adoption for O365 and EMS Helping with your Migration - NEW DON'T MISS OUT 10 8 ▶ MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 8 ▶ Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - EFFECTIVE 16th May 11 NEW 9 ▶ Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 11 9 ▶ Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing - Book your live session now 12 BOOK YOUR LIVE SESSION 10 ▶ Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 12 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 NOW 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.1st

Newsletter. Contents Azure-only SCE Minimum is Changing - NEW 2 u Project Pro for Office 365 and Visio Project Online Plans Replaced by New Plans - NEW 2 u Azure Active Directory Premium Name Changes - NEW 3 u Project Online Professional and Premium Cloud Add-ons Promotion Available for Project Standard Customers - NEW 3 u Windows 10, EMS and Promotions ECS Name Changes - NOW Available 2 ▶ Price Decrease for Skype for Business Plus Client Access License add-on NEW 4 u Azure EMS Suite Changes - NEW 4 u R Server Products added to Enterprise Cloud Suite 2 ▶ Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription and SPLA - NEW 4 u SQL Server 2016 3 ▶ O365 Lockbox Available for Education 3 ▶ SQL Server 2014 Developer being discontinued 3 ▶ 5 u Windows Server and Systems Centre 2016 Licensing Changes 4 ▶ Upgrade to Office 365 Plan 5 u E5 Promotional Step Up 5 ▶ Windows Roaming Rights Removed 6 ▶ Visual Studio Professional MSDN - Enterprise MSDN Step-up Promotion and Skype for 60 days ONLY Business Availability Update - NEW 6 ▶ Welcome u Announcing Enterprise Advantage on MPSA: A Better Way to Windows 10 Promo extended to 30th June 2016 Buy Organisation-Wide - NEW Extension 7 ▶ 6 u Select Plus is Retiring for Existing Customers - NEW : PLEASE READ IF THIS AFFECTS YOU 7 ▶ 6 u Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) inc Multi Year & Short Term subscriptions 8 ▶ Subscriptions 7 u Enterprise Agreement - Enterprise Cloud Suite and Server Cloud Suite 9 ▶ 8 u Changes to the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) - NEW 9 ▶ 8 u Schools Discount now available Now Available via a MoU 10 ▶ FastTrack Adoption for O365 and EMS Helping with your Migration 9 u The Insight Technology Show - NEW DON'T MISS OUT 10 ▶ Manchester, 2016 9 u MPSA Portal Changing to Business Centre Portal 10 u Visual Studio (aka MSDN) Management Portal - EFFECTIVE 16th May NEW 11 ▶ u Increase your ROI with adding Insight Direct as your Partner of Record (POR) 11 ▶ u Software Assurance Activation, Deployment and Managing - Book your live session now 12 ▶ u Product Licensing and Use Rights Search 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 NOW NEW Project and Visio Cloud AddAzure-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 only SCE Minimum 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.Changing New Policy Change FAQs Current Policy 1st