ITCS News: Microsoft Software Assurance Renewals Due December 14/title> <http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="ITCS" href="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/itcssearch.xml"> <link rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css" href="/css/itcsweb.css" /> </head> <body>   <div id="topBanner"><div id="topDate">Friday <b>August 29</b> 2008</div><a href="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/"><b>Information Technology Central Services</b> at the University of Michigan</a></div>   <div id="itcsLogo"><a href="http://www.umich.edu/"><img src="/images/block-m.gif" width="40" height="40" border="0" alt="University of Michigan"></a><a href="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/"><img src="/images/itcs-logo.gif" width="130" height="40" alt="ITCS"></a></div> <div id="subBanner"> <div id="searchBanner"> <form method="get" action="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch" name="searchform"> <label for="search"><strong>Search</strong> ITCS</label> <input class="searchBox" id="search" type="text" name="words" size="10"> <input class="go" type="image" src="/images/go-button.gif" border="0" value="GO" alt="GO"></form> <form method="post" action="http://directory.umich.edu/ldapweb-bin/search"> <label for="directory"> <strong>Find</strong> a Person or Group at U-M</label> <input class="searchBox" id="directory" type="text" name="filter" size="10"> <input class="go" type="image" src="/images/go-button.gif" border="0" value="GO" alt="GO"></form> </div> </div>  <table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div id="homeLeft"> <noscript> <a href="/your-account/">Your Computing Account</a> <a href="/e-mail/">E-Mail</a> <a href="/internet/">Internet</a> <a href="/printing/">Printing</a> <a href="/files/">Storing & Sharing Files</a> <a href="/computers/">Computers & Software</a> <a href="http://www.itcom.itcs.umich.edu/">Telephones, Data, Video</a> <a href="/security/">Security & Privacy</a> <a href="/itstaff/">For IT Staff</a> <a href="/help/">More Help Resources</a> <a href="http://status.itcs.umich.edu/">ITCS Service Status</a> <a href="/services/">ITCS Services</a> <a href="/about/">About ITCS</a> <a href="/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> <a href="/">ITCS Home</a> </noscript> </div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="pageText" width="100%" valign="top"> <h2>News from ITCS: Fall Term 2007</h2> <h3>Microsoft Software Assurance Renewals Due December 14</h3> <div class="newsDate"> December 5, 2007<p> </div> U-M has renewed the Microsoft Select Agreement effective December 1, 2007. If you have purchased any software for your department or unit and placed it under Microsoft's Software Assurance program through ITCS Software Licensing and Distribution, it is critical that you contact that office regarding renewal no later than 4:00 p.m. December 14. <p> Microsoft Software Assurance is a maintenance program under which a licensee is entitled to upgrade a given product at no additional expense for the term of the University's contract. Software Assurance expired with the most recent Microsoft contract on November 30, 2007. <p> The new Microsoft Select Agreement permits any prior licensee of Software Assurance to extend their contract for the term of the new agreement. Therefore, you may now renew your Software Assurance for three years (through November 30, 2010). To renew your Software Assurance, please use the <a href="http://www.itd.umich.edu/sw-info/microsoft/products/mssa_of.html">online order form.</a> <p> Note that not every Microsoft product is included in the price list that is part of the order form. If you do not see the product for which you would like to renew Software Assurance, you should send e-mail to ITCS Software Licensing and Distribution at <a href="mailto:lic.itcs@umich.edu">lic.itcs@umich.edu</a>, and staff will provide you with the cost and an order form. <p> <b>IMPORTANT! Your order must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on December 14, 2007.</b> Once this deadline has passed, if you desire to upgrade any Microsoft product for which you no longer have Software Assurance in force, you will need to purchase a new license at a cost that is very likely to be higher than the cost of renewing Software Assurance now. At that time, you will have the option of purchasing Software Assurance for the duration of the University's Microsoft Select Agreement, but note that this means that you will be paying for both a new license and Software Assurance, so it would be far better to renew Software Assurance now. <p> ITCS Software Licensing and Distribution is frequently asked by users to assist them in determining whether their products are under maintenance contracts or not. Staff members make every effort to do so, but unfortunately can't guarantee that they will have sufficient information for this purpose. The reasons for this include: <p> <ul> <li>Users move licenses from one machine to another.</li> <p> <li>The people who purchase the licenses and are listed as the contact person have moved to other departments.</li> <p> <li>Department administrators may not know the shortcode that the products were billed to.</li> <p> <li>Departments sometimes purchase their maintenance agreements from sources outside of ITCS. </li> </ul> <p> Consequently, for these reasons among others, it is a departmental responsibility to maintain the information necessary to invoke and extend maintenance agreements. <p> If you have questions or need additional information, please contact ITCS Software Licensing and Distribution (<a href="mailto:lic.itcs@umich.edu">lic.itcs@umich.edu</a>). <p> <div class="smallText" align="right"> <a href="index.html"><img src="/images/back-arrow.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" alt="«">Return to Fall 2007 Headlines</a><p> </div>   <br> <img src="/images/hr.gif" width="100%" height="1" alt=""> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="pageFooter"> <a href="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/"><img src="/images/itcs-footer.gif" width="37" height="25" border="0" alt="ITCS"><br> Information Technology Central Services at the University of Michigan</a><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="footerText" nowrap> <img src="/images/blank.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=" "><br> <a href="http://www.itcs.umich.edu/">ITCS Home</a> | <a href="/contact/index.html">Contact ITCS</a> | <a href="/it-resources.html">U-M IT Resources</a> | <a href="https://wolverineaccess.umich.edu/">Wolverine Access</a> | <a href="http://www.umich.edu/">University of Michigan</a><br> <br> <div style="font-size:10px;color:#cccccc">December 05, 2007</div> </td> </tr> </table> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/includes/menus.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/includes/page-menu.js"></script>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript" src="/js/page-menu.js"></script>  </body> </html>