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"There's a Microsoft MAK key that's issued through the ESU," Canfield explained. Organizations buy a MAK key from a CSP as part of the ESU program. When asked if it was required, Canfield said, "No."
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There's a misimpression that buying a Windows 7 ESU requires having an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft. For instance, Bradley recently noted in a blog post that the Ultimate edition qualifies under the Windows 7 ESU program. That rule of thumb also appears to include the Windows 7 Ultimate edition.
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Organizations need to be using the Windows 7 Pro edition or higher editions to qualify to use an ESU, Canfield noted. The old $50 per device price for Windows 7 ESUs had been previously disclosed by veteran Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley in this ZDNet article. One of MessageOps' customers didn't act quickly enough and got stuck with the extra costs, he added.
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"It was interesting because on December first they came out at fifty bucks a user a year, and they raised the price 10 days later to $62," Canfield said. The costs for ESUs actually got increased by Microsoft after it launched the program. He also clarified that there's no partial-year reimbursement for the costs if an organization stops needing the ESU support midyear or so. The only thing that's unique at all is that it's for one year - they have to pay a year in advance." "You name the size, we'll handle it if we can," Canfield said.
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Another client with 250 seats had just one Windows 7 PC that it couldn't move, "so we put in an order for one ESU," he said. He described having one customer with 750 Windows 7 devices that recently purchased ESUs. "As of today, we've migrated north of 8 million accounts up into Office 365, you name the flavor," explained Jim Canfield, director of online services at MessageOps, in a Tuesday phone call.Ĭanfield answered some Windows 7 ESU questions, including whether organizational size matters in buying them. It's a wholly owned subsidiary of Champion Solutions Group, based in Boca Raton, Fla., and serves as the cloud division for the group, offering Azure and Office 365 services support, including ESUs for Windows 7. One CSP that's not shy about selling Windows 7 ESUs, even to smaller organizations, is MessageOps. "They're typically geared toward large businesses." "Most of those vendors are probably not interested in handling one or a few Win7 ESU purchases," Bradley wrote. Bradley had used the recommended approach of searching Microsoft's CSP partner portal. An attempt to locate CSPs willing to sell ESUs in Northern California by Susan Bradley, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional supporting small businesses, found few local vendors offering ESUs. For instance, one attempt to locate CSPs willing to sell ESUs in Germany found just one partner offering them, according to this Born's Tech and Windows World post.
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Various reports have suggested that it's actually somewhat difficult to buy ESUs, especially for smaller organizations. Microsoft directs volume licensing customers to their "Account Team CE" to get Windows 7 ESU keys, while other organizations "should reach out to a CSP partner" at this site, according to Microsoft's Windows 7 ESU FAQ. 2), opening up ESU purchases by organizations of all sizes. In addition, Windows 7 ESU sales by Microsoft's CSP partners began on Dec. Originally, the ESU program kicked off on April 1 just for volume licensing customers, but Microsoft later dropped the volume licensing requirement.
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The ESU program permits patch extensions for a maximum of three years, but organizations must renew each year, and the cost gets doubled each year.
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This key is used to update the license and continue to get security patches. It's done by buying ESU keys - that is, organizations get a so-called "multiple activation key" (MAK) that will work with a Key Management Service (KMS). Microsoft's ESU program offers a way to extend the delivery of "Critical" and "Important" Windows 7 patches for organizations having trouble moving off the OS. 14, 2020, when free patches from Microsoft will come to an end.
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The Windows 7 operating system will hit its end-of-support stage on Jan. Some of the mystique surrounding Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) was clarified in a Tuesday chat with Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner MessageOps.