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Microsoft Partner Blog. Sell With Microsoft. Compare Support Offers. Partner Center Help. Top Support Topics. Once it's activated, it appears to be identical to any other Windows PC. If Microsoft want us to be responisble and keep on top of this issue, then there really ought to be a way of us being able to track these things. Some information on usage is still available in the usage guide - e.
However, for the specific questions which licenses exactly qualify this is no help - in Product Terms it is mentioned that this is different depending on licensing channel, and Partner IUR is not documented in there.
So if there is no one from MPN team giving guidance here, I would advice to raise a ticket via Partner Center - they might need to escalate this internally since it was removed from website a year ago. Since inplace-upgrades technically only work from Win7 or newer I'm pretty sure that Win7 is considered to be an eligible license for the upgrade - but the MPN team needs to confirm.
It is true that for an audit you should be having proof that you own base OS license e. Since without this OEM license, the Action pack license is no use - the fact that you could install full Windows from MAPS on bare metal in former times did not change the fact that you need a qualifying OS licenses assigned to the device - also similar to how it is been done for VL license customers which also only do get upgrade licenses where the media does allow full install.
In fact, an auditor is not able to differentiate if an upgrade to Windows 10 was made during the free upgrade period or later, and I have received feedback from some SAM Partner that this is a bit of a problem.
Do you have site feedback? Post here. Partner Center Dashboard. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. MAPS is not one time only. It is a subscription that you must maintain.
You get to use the software as long as you maintain the subscription and maintain being a legitimate Microsoft partner. We've been using ours since Microsoft makes a big deal about using it "forever" in their presentations. If you qualify for the Action Pack then it is a really great deal. It is cost effective and gets you a lot of stuff. It's far from free. But the reason that you pay for it is because you are a Microsoft adviser or reseller or similar and you need access to all of the latest software to do your job.
That should be a huge portion of the value to anyone who qualifies to use it. If the customer is intentionally trying to run old OS versions, that should be a flag that maybe they aren't actually qualified for the license. There are exceptions and special cases where someone would qualify but still want to run old versions, but that would be really rare.
In either case, they should have the internal staff required to understand what they're doing with the subscription. That they apparently don't is a major licensing red flag. Before doing anything, I strongly suggest you verify this client is actually qualified to purchase an Action Pack.
Also, read the small print for those licenses. We were caught out with Office licenses. The Action Pack said "10 licenses for Office ". So we happily installed it on 10 internal laptops. In fact it was a single license with 10 activations.
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