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Adding additional Dynamics on-prem licenses via Dual Use Rights - Minimum Purchase
If a customer would like to add additional Dynamics on-prem licenses via NCE and Dual Use Rights, is the minimum purchase according to the product terms still mandatory?
Example: A customer has 25 Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Enterprise on-prem users and wants to purchase additional users via Dynamics 365 Finance (Software as a Service) with Dual Use Rights and Downgrade Rights. Must the customer meet the minimum purchase of 20 users also for the additional users?
- Do note; that for as far as I'm aware, you're not able to extended on-premises license with Cloud DUR licenses.
What I mean, if you have 25 on-premises licenses and purchase 20 Cloud licenses and apply DUR, etc. You don't have 45 on-premises licenses to use.
For the 20 Cloud DUR licenses you'll get a new on-premises license key for just those 20 users. Thus you'll have 2 on-premises keys; one for 25 (the original) and one for 20 (DUR) users. So in total you have 45 on-premises licenses, but divided in 2 license keys and you can only import one license key in an environment... so you can't have 45 users in a single environment.
If you want to license an on-premises environment thru Cloud licenses, I would consider the BTTC2 promo and purchase all required licenses in the cloud (all 45), apply DUR and get a single DUR on-premises license key for all those 45 users.- Thank you, guys! It all sounds plausible.
Nevertheless, it would be great to have a verified answer for this. Can someone from Microsoft please answer this?
- Hi,
If the customer has not purchased any D365 Finance SaaS licenses via CSP, then they will need to meet the minimum initial purchase requirement.
Recommend reviewing the Product Terms to be clear what the requirements are around minimum quantity and dual use rights.
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftDynamics365Services/MCA
