Training Vouchers
With the Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers benefit, you receive training vouchers for courses that are designed to help IT professionals and developers deploy, manage, and support your organization's infrastructure. Training is instructor-led and delivered by Microsoft Certified Partners for Learning Solutions (CPLS), the premier authorized training channel for delivering learning products and services on Microsoft technology. Training vouchers help you do the following:
| • | Support your software investment by preparing your IT staff to efficiently deploy, maintain, and support new technologies. |
| • | Provide your developers with the technical expertise to build line-of-business applications for your organization. |
You can convert unused training days and apply them toward the Desktop Deployment Planning Services Software Assurance benefit. This benefit is available from Microsoft Certified Partners, which provide services related to deployment, migration, and management of Microsoft technologies.
Learn more about Desktop Deployment Planning Services
How It Works
Training vouchers entitle you to receive courses from a Microsoft CPLS for a specific number of training days. The number of days awarded varies by product and by the number of qualifying licenses for which Software Assurance is acquired.
Your Software Assurance Benefits Administrator assigns training days and associated training vouchers to designated individuals on the Microsoft Volume License Services (MVLS) Web site.
Go to Microsoft Volume License Services
The right to access the Training Voucher benefit expires with your Software Assurance coverage. If you have created a training voucher and reserved it with a qualified CPLS before the expiration of your Software Assurance coverage, the voucher will be valid for 180 days after the date it was created. Training vouchers not reserved with a qualified CPLS before the end of your Software Assurance coverage will expire and be forfeited.
Available Courses
The following are some of the courses available through the Training Vouchers benefit:
| • | First Look: Windows Vista for Developers |
| • | Designing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Databases |
| • | Managing Messaging Security by Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
| • | Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure |
| • | Deploying and Managing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 |
Find a complete list of courses
Locate a Microsoft Learning Solutions Partner
Note Microsoft Certified Partners for Learning Solutions that honor Software Assurance Training Vouchers are indicated as "Additional Value-add Training Service(s): Software Assurance Training Voucher Program."
The following table shows the number of training days by number of licenses for which Software Assurance is acquired. The number of training vouchers is based on a three-year Software Assurance enrollment.
| Training Days | ||
| Number of licenses | Number of days: operating systems | Number of days: applications |
1–249 | 1 day for every 50 licenses | 2 days for every 50 licenses |
250–2,399 | 10 days | 20 days |
2,400–5,999 | 15 days | 30 days |
6,000–14,999 | 25 days | 50 days |
15,000–29,999 | 55 days | 110 days |
30,000–49,999 | 80 days | 160 days |
50,000–99,999 | 125 days | 250 days |
100,000–199,999 | 200 days | 400 days |
200,000–399,999 | 300 days | 600 days |
400,000–599,999 | 400 days | 800 days |
Eligibility
The following Volume Licensing programs are eligible for this benefit:
| • | Open Value |
| • | Open Value Company-wide |
| • | Open Value Subscription |
| • | Select License Software Assurance Membership |
| • | Enterprise Agreement |
| • | Enterprise Subscription Agreement |
Getting Started
1. | Contact your Software Assurance Benefits Administrator to acquire training vouchers. |
2. | Learn what your organization is entitled to by visiting the MVLS Web site. |
3. | Select the courses you'd like to take from the course list on the Microsoft Learning Web site. |
4. | Use the Microsoft Solution Finder to locate a Microsoft Learning Solutions Partner near you. |
Go to Microsoft Volume License Services
Go to the Microsoft Learning Web site
Go to the Microsoft Solution Finder
Learn More
View a table listing the Microsoft Volume Licensing programs eligible for this and other Software Assurance benefits.
Learn how to activate Software Assurance benefits.
Find out how to get Software Assurance.
Read real-life examples of how other businesses are deriving value from their Software Assurance benefits.