There are 3 major changes happening to Software Assurance beginning in 2020 that all SAB Administrators should be aware of that affect both EA renewals as well as existing benefits in February 2020: (Read the summary or the FAQ for details)
- Planning Services
We’re retiring Planning Services & making additional future investments in Microsoft FastTrack to assist with the adoption of cloud services. - Training Vouchers
We’re retiring Training Vouchers benefit & instead investing in new future training/certification offerings. (Nothing announced yet) - Support
We’re replacing 24/7 Problem Resolution Support incidents with credit toward Premier Unified Support contracts.
The timeline is documented in the following written .PDF summary of these changes. Please download it for details:
- Software Assurance 2020 Benefit Update Summary: (PDF)
https://download.microsoft.com/download/5/c/7/5c727885-ec15-4920-818b-4d140ec6c38a/Software-Assurance-2020-benefit-update-summary.pdf - Software Assurance FAQ:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/licensing-programs/FAQ-Software-Assurance
