Core CAL and Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance

There’s an updated (March 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There are minimal changes from the February 2025 version and note that a couple of errors still remain in the table on page 3.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4iquFTa.

Core CAL and Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance

There’s an updated (February 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft.

There aren’t many changes from the previous (November 2020) version because, to be honest, not much has changed in the CAL Suites world. However, note that a couple of errors have been introduced into the table on page 3.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/3FgONIK.

August 2015 Enterprise CAL Suite Changes

There are two changes to the Enterprise CAL Suite from 1 August 2015.

Firstly, Advanced Threat Analytics is added and is, in fact, added to all the Enterprise CAL Bridges and the Enterprise Mobility Suite too (see page 70 of the August 2015 Product Terms).

Secondly, the System Center Client Management Suite is “removed” – in quotes because the rights to use it will be included in the Enterprise CAL Suite and ECAL Bridge for Office 365 through 31 December, 2016 (page 86).

Due to these changes there are also August 2015 updates to two Volume Licensing Briefs:

Both of these briefs include the amendments noted above along with Skype for Business Server CALs replacing Lync CALs, and the second document has a jolly nice definition of Advanced Threat Analytics if that’s a new product for you.