Microsoft Licences

Hosted Exchange

Looking for a enterprise-grade email solution? You've found it with our Hosted Exchange platform!

Hosted Exchange is more than just a central email repository: it's the world's most powerful email collaboration tool. Users have direct access and capacity to manage contacts, calendars, tasks and email, whether in the office or on the go. The benefits are broad and significant.

A CEO can give read permissions to an executive assistant, providing knowledge of the business' calendar to help with appointment bookings. Meeting requests sent via email are automatically saved to the Hosted Exchange Calendar on acceptance and synced to all devices. Project managers can share contacts when working on a project together without having to trawl through email chains to locate addresses.

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Need help knowing which licenses to use?

The way that Microsoft license the software they provide differs depending on where you got it from, the type of business that supplies it, and what software you are looking to buy. One of the reasons for handling it differently in each of these cases is that the requirements for each application differs.

With Microsoft offering so many different type of licenses, it can be confusing to try an understand which one you will need to purchase in order to remain compliant.

Due to this, we've created a in-depth guide explaining what different licenses are available, and when you will need to use each of them.

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Microsoft 365 / Office 365

For customers who require services from Microsoft's own Cloud, such as their desktop and cloud versions of their Office suite of applications or Outlook, we can provide the licenses for these services.

Looking for a different Microsoft 365 product? Contact us and we'll be able to provide you with pricing and details about other Microsoft services.

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Windows Server & Microsoft SQL Licences

With Windows Server licenses, the two most common types provided are SPLA and CSP Perpetual licences. For our customers that host their services within our Cloud, licensing Windows for their Virtual Machines is often simple, just requiring a charge based on the number of vCPU cores allocated to their machines.

However, if you use your own physical servers, the cost for the licence is sold “per Core”, meaning that it scales in cost depending on how many CPU cores your physical server has. There are also minimum purchase quantities - even if your physical server has less than eight CPU Cores, there is a requirement that you purchase a licence that covers a minimum of eight cores.

There is another complicating factor – if you are going to be running Virtual Machines (VMs) on your hardware, then there are limits within the Windows Server Standard licensing on that as well. That licence type only allows for two virtual machines to be run on the licensed physical server, meaning that if you want to run four VMs instead, that will double your licensing costs. So for every two VMs you wish to run, another separate Windows Server Standard licence (with the minimum of eight CPU cores on each one) will need to be purchased.

Below we will list the itemised cost of some of the different Windows Server and SQL licences that we offer:

If you have further questions about how Microsoft licencing works, you can find more information here.