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Microsoft Software Assurance is a comprehensive maintenance offering that helps you get the most out of your software investment. It combines the latest software with phone support available 24 hours a day, partner services, training, and IT tools that help customers deploy, manage, and migrate software. With Software Assurance, you can increase worker productivity, accelerate organizational performance, and quickly realize a return on your software investment.

You can choose Software Assurance at the time of purchase and begin using your benefits immediately for the term of your license agreement.

If you purchased through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), you can add Software Assurance within 90 days. Contact your Microsoft representative or reseller to find out how.


How to Activate Software Assurance Benefits
Published: May 27, 2003 | Updated: November 6, 2007

Microsoft Software Assurance is a maintenance program that you can select at the time of a software purchase. It can be used immediately and through the term of your licensing agreement. Software Assurance provides a broad range of benefits, including exclusive technology, training, support, deployment services, and rights to future upgrades. These benefits are available for you to use throughout the software management life cycle, so you can access them when you need them. Software Assurance benefits contribute to the return on your technology investment, providing better budget predictability, minimized downtime, improved productivity, and lower operating expenses associated with employee development, deployment, and support costs. Software Assurance may also offer other advantages depending on how you activate and use the benefits.
Activate and Use Software Assurance


Follow these steps to quickly understand what benefits are available, how to communicate the value of these benefits to your human resources team, IT department, and knowledge workers—and then activate and use your Software Assurance benefits. The tools and resources in the section that follows can also help you choose the benefits that are best for your organization.

Step 1: Learn

Learn about the benefits of Software Assurance by contacting your local reseller or account manager or by visiting the Software Assurance Web site.

Step 2: Communicate

Take advantage of the resources in the section that follows and on the Software Assurance Web site to communicate how these benefits can be used across your organization.

Step 3: Activate and Use

Get the most value out of your Software Assurance benefits. Activate and manage all of your organization's benefits on the Microsoft Volume License Services (MVLS) Web site. The resources in the following section can help you promote awareness and use.

Visit the Software Assurance Web site


How to Get Software Assurance
Published: May 27, 2003 | Updated: May 30, 2006

Your preferred Microsoft Volume Licensing program reseller or channel partner can help you acquire Software Assurance, which can be ordered through any of Microsoft's Volume Licensing programs.

To find which Microsoft Volume Licensing program is right for you: