The Enrolment for Education Solutions License, or EES, became available to schools within the UK from the 1^st of March 2011. This agreement can license a single school, a number of schools or an entire local education authority. The agreement is a contract type enrolment via an open value subscription. The subscription is a flexible volume licensing offer lasting for 3 years. After the 3 years there are a number of options to consider. Your first option is to extend your subscription under a one year licensing period. A second option to consider is submitting a new subscription enrolment under the three-year licensed period. A further option is that you allow the subscription to run out and then stop using the software. If you wish to buy your software you can convert to a perpetual license which is done through buy-out licenses. It should be noted that the costs of this can be significant and should be considered as part of the decision to choose this type of licensing.

To qualify for this license you must have a minimum of 5 FTE’s or more. FTE’s are staff that work more than 200 hours per year in school. The FTE’s get counted once every year which means that you don’t have to track every computer in the organisation.

Key Benefits:

• Counting FTE staff once a year covers all staff and shared PCs
• One annual payment at academic prices.
• Access to the most up to date version of the licensed software
• Access to software assurance benefits.
• Working at home for staff users counted within the FTE count.
• Licensed to run any version of the product includes product upgrades during the designated agreement.
• Broad product selection available

There is a wide selection of Microsoft products available through the EES type of License.

The Education Desktop Platform package includes:

• Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade.
• Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010
• Microsoft Core CAL Suite

The Enterprise Desktop Platform package includes all of the above plus an Enterprise CAL Suite.

There are also a number of additional products and services available through your EES License.  These additional products and services can be licensed in any quantity, ranging from a single license to organisation wide.  Examples of Additional products available include Windows Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Project and additional CALs or Microsoft Online Services.