Microsoft Software Assurance is a comprehensive maintenance offering that helps you get the most out of your software investment. It combines the latest software with phone support available 24 hour a day, partner services, training, and IT tools that help customers deploy, manage, and migrate software. With Software Assurance, you can increase worker productivity, accelerate organizational performance, and quickly realize a return on your software investment.

You can get Software Assurance by including it with licenses acquired through the Open License for Academic and Select License for Academic licensing programs. For Campus Agreement and School Agreement licensing programs, all products covered by your subscription enrollment are automatically enrolled in Software Assurance for the designated term.

If you acquire software licenses through retail full-package product (FPP)* or from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), you have 90 days to enroll these licenses in Software Assurance through the the Open License for Academic or Select License for Academic licensing programs.