Volume Licensing Service Center — License Information
Published on January 19, 2011
The Licenses section of the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) provides information about each of the donations you received from TechSoup and the products included in those donations. There are two views: Relationship Summary and License Summary.
To view licensing information, you must either be the administrator or have permission to perform the Licensing Info role. See Volume Licensing Service Center — Maintaining Your Account.
Relationship Summary
To view the Relationship Summary page, sign into the Volume Licensing Service Center and choose Licenses > Relationship Summary.
The following information is displayed for each donation:
- Licensing ID:
- This is the license number for this donation. If you have multiple donations, you can identify each because it is the number in the email from TechSoup whose subject line begins with: Microsoft Volume License Agreement and Activation.
- Orders:
- Because each separate TechSoup donation has a different licensing ID, this number is always 1.
- Organization:
- The name in your organization's TechSoup profile.
- City and Country:
- Information from the address on your organization's TechSoup profile.
- End Date and Status:
- The end date is two years from the date TechSoup sent your request information to Microsoft. At this time, information about your donation will remain on the site, and you can continue to download installation software, but your Software Assurance expires.
- Parent Program:
- There are two items of information in this field. The term on top indicates the type of Volume Licensing program. Donations obtained through TechSoup are in the Open License program, so the term OPEN appears. The program number is the same as the authorization number in the email TechSoup sends to your organization whose subject line begins with: Microsoft Volume License Agreement and Activation. This number is also sometimes called the agreement number.
License Summary
To view the License Summary page, sign into the Volume Licensing Service Center and choose Licenses > License Summary. This page shows information about all the products in all your licenses. You can filter to show only the products in a specific licensing ID.
The following information is displayed for each product:
- Product Pool:
- One of three product pools: systems, servers, or applications. For TechSoup donations, the product pool's main impact is on which e-learning courses your organization has access to through Software Assurance.
- License Product Family:
- The family to which the product you requested belongs, as the Volume Licensing program defines the word "family."
- License Version:
- The most recent version of the product for which you are eligible.
- Effective Quantity:
- The total number of licenses available to your organization for this product family.
- Unresolved Quantity:
- This number is 0 for donations through TechSoup.
- Active SA Quantity:
- The number of products with active Software Assurance.