With the help of LOL Cloud, Microsoft allows service providers to provide hosting, outsourcing and other services to avoid any prior costs, authorize budget planning, and pay only for what you use. Microsoft Corp`s contract must be approved within two weeks. Microsoft and LOL Cloud will send a welcome email containing details of your new SPLA agreement. The signed and approved physical contract is also sent directly by Microsoft. LOL Cloud sends the signed sub-contract. The SPLA is a monthly licensing program. If a service provider has 10 users who have access to the software in February, they would pay for those 10 users during the first week of March. In March, when they have 10 users, they would report those 10 users in the first week of April, and so on. SPLA is very flexible, it allows to adjust usage on a monthly basis. It is not indefinite, after the end of the service contract, no one holds the licenses. Imagine SPLA as a rental software program, designed for hosting companies that want to offer Microsoft software as a service. SPLA provides user rights to third-party owners of these Microsoft licenses, so that end customers who receive services provided on Microsoft software products are not required to obtain their own licenses. End customers have the right to interact directly or indirectly with Microsoft software features through the SPLA license provider.
If you need 2 licenses this month, you pay for two licenses, but if you use 30 licenses next month, you pay 30 and then you can go back and pay only the original 2 licenses or the amount you need. There are no minimum or maximum quotas. This program is only available to external users and is not designed for internal staff. For all in-house, you don`t need to buy a volume license agreement, SPLA. SPLA is synonymous with the Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA). The main difference between an SPLA license and a license delivered with a packaged product (something you would buy in a retail store) is the person who uses the software. The software you buy in a retail store can only be used by the person who bought it. On the other hand, SPLA is designed for hosting companies that offer software as a service to their customers. It`s for third-party access, not for internal staff. For example, if a company wants to host an Exchange server on behalf of another organization, the Exchange license required for that access is SPLA. Other common examples of organizations using SPLA are companies like Rackspace, Go Daddy.
Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) is a licensing program that provides hosting to service providers and ISVs to rent or lease monthly licenses for Microsoft products and provide hosting services and applications for the end customer. Взаимодейтвие : Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server.