Microsoft Licensing - Deploy and Manage

Once you’ve bought Software Assurance, you can get an overview of all your benefits and activate them through the Volume Licensing Service Centre. For a handy guide to the full suite of benefits and what they can do for your business, view our Software Assurance videos. You’ve paid for your benefits, so be sure to use them. Find out more here.


Software Assurance Contacts
Notices contact

Receives invitations from Microsoft to register Software Assurance benefits.

Benefits administrator

Responsible for administering the benefits within your business.

Benefits contact

Responsible for managing, distributing and using the benefits.


If you have any questions about Software Assurance, please call our Software Assurance helpline on 0800 917 9016.

When you buy Software Assurance, you nominate one employee to receive information from Microsoft, and to take responsibility for activating your benefits. This person - your 'notices contact' - will receive an email asking them to activate benefits by following this simple process:

Enter their surname and email address
Log on with a valid Microsoft .NET Passport
Enter their licence agreement number
To find out whether your benefits have been activated and to obtain them, contact your benefits administrator

Activating your Home Use Programme benefit
For specific information on activating and promoting this benefit to your employees click here.


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