Perpetual Microsoft Licences on CSP from Jan 2021

Customers will be able to purchase perpetual licences on CSP from January 2021. This means that you will be able to purchase your on-premises and cloud subscriptions under one agreement through a single provider.

What does this mean for…

Indirect Resellers?

• You can sell on-premises perpetual licences through the CSP offer catalogue
• You make a one-time, upfront payment
• You facilitate the procurement. Your customers manage licence key access, activation and product fulfilment through Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Direct customers

• You can buy on-premises perpetual licences through the CSP offer catalogue
• You make a one-time, upfront payment
• You manage licence key access, activation and product fulfilment through Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Which products will be available on CSP Perpetual?

• Office Standard and Pro
• Office for Mac
• Project
• Visio
• Biztalk
• SharePoint
• Windows 10
• Windows Server
• SQL server
• Skype for Business

This will provide customers that can’t move specific workloads to the cloud with a greater degree of flexibility. No additional licence agreements will need to be signed resulting in quicker order fulfilment.

Software Assurance will not be available to purchase with perpetual licences on CSP. For customers requiring a large number of licences, Volume Licensing may still offer bigger discounts.

Check out Microsoft’s FAQ here.

Compare licensing options here.