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1 Microsoft Volume Licensing Volume Licensing Center User Guide Volume Licensing MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 2 Overview of the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center .. 4 Gaining Access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center .. 4 Navigating the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center .. 6 Licenses and Services .. 8 Downloads and Keys .. 9 Downloadable Products ..10 Description ..11 Search and Filter Features ..12 Keys ..13 Download ..14 Agreements ..15 Overview ..15 Details ..16 Orders ..17 How to Look Up an Order ..17 User Online Services ..19 Ordering Licenses ..20 Buying New Services ..22 Administration Tasks ..24 My Profile ..24 Access Roles ..25 Role Access Permissions ..25 MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 3 Help.

2 26 Contact Us ..26 Appendix A ..27 Glossary ..27 Appendix B ..32 Account Menu ..32 MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 4 Overview of the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center The Microsoft Volume Licensing Center is the single location for you to view your licenses and agreements. Gaining Access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center Note: You need a valid business email address and user ID to use the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center. Everyone who requires access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center must be assigned an ID by Microsoft . This change from a Windows Live ID gives you control over access to the accounts in your organization. Microsoft will authenticate your ID and assign a unique domain.

3 For example: To gain access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center: At the beginning of this process, Microsoft will send you two email messages. The first message will contain your ID, and the second will contain your temporary password. Note: If you do not receive an email notification, check the junk email folder in your email program. Ensure that you enter to your Safe Senders list. 1. Access the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center (MVLC) at 2. On the MVLCP Welcome page, click Sign In. Figure 1: Welcome page MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 5 3. Enter your ID and temporary password. 4. On your first sign-in, you will be prompted to set your password. 5. Click Sign in. Figure 2: Sign in page MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 6 Navigating the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center The MVLC dashboard is designed for easy access to your Licensing management needs.

4 You can: View details of your agreements Look up an order Download products and keys Manage online services and licenses The dashboard has a clean look with only the tiles you need. Tiles that you do not need are not displayed. Figure 3 shows the dashboard with all possible tiles displayed. Figure 3: Dashboard MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 7 When you are on a page within MVLC, use the navigation menu at the top of the page to move between sections. Figure 4: Navigation Menu Figure 5: Filter drop-down menu You can sort lists of information on pages with rows and columns. To sort, click the column heading. The column toggles between sorting low to high and high to low. You can also filter these lists to get a smaller list to look through.

5 To filter a list, click the filter icon to the right of the column you want to use for filter criteria. Enter your criteria in the drop-down box and click Filter. (See Figure 5.) To remove the filter, click Clear Filter. When there is more information available about an item in the details, the information icon appears. Click the blue question mark icon for a brief description for additional information. Figure 6: Context-sensitive help MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 8 Licenses and Services The Licenses and Services section of MVLC allows you to view your assets and the history of your purchases. You can also use it to plan renewals because licenses that are near expiration are marked so you can find them easily.

6 The Licenses and Services page shows a list of your assets arranged by product group. The product groups can be expanded or contracted to make it easier to see the parts you are working on. When the product group is expanded, you can see all of the products in the group, and the number of licenses for each. To view the details of a plan, click the expansion icon on the left side of the row for that plan. The detailed view gives you such things as the number of licenses you have, the resource usage, and the expiration date for the licenses. If a purchasing account has a service agreement (SA) or an online SKU that is within ninety days of its expiration date, an Expiring soon notification appears with dotted gray underline.

7 Hovering over the notification provides Help. If you expand the plan, the date of expiration for the purchasing account appears in red. Hovering over the date displays a note suggesting that you contact your partner for renewal. Expand Expand Search Actions button opens menu containing history option Figure 7: Licenses and Services page Figure 8: Upcoming expiration date MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 9 To see the purchase history of the plan, click Actions and select View History. This opens the Transaction History window. The Transaction History window displays all of the transactions having to do with a plan. It lists when the transaction took place, the product that was bought, the quantity of licenses involved, and other pertinent information.

8 Each column has a filter that allows you to constrain the number of transactions listed. Once you have found the information you are looking for, you can export it to a file for later use. Downloads and Keys To obtain product keys and download products, click the Downloads and Keys tile. The Downloads and Keys page provides a list of all products available for download, with easy access for downloading products and obtaining keys for products. This page allows you to do the following: Download products. View a product description. Determine which products need keys. Locate the correct key for a product. Figure 9: View History selection Figure 10: Transaction History MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 10 Downloadable Products The Downloads and Keys page is arranged in three main divisions.

9 Filter capabilities o Categories (left area, marked in blue in Figure 11) allows you to filter the list of products o Search box (center area, marked in purple in Figure 11) allows you to search for specific text Search results o Alphabetical list of products (center area, marked in orange in Figure 11) o Sort menu (right) allows you to sort the list of products Actions o Downloads icon (right area, marked in green in Figure 11) opens the panel for a product to expose information about the download and the buttons for available downloads for that product o Keys icon (right area, marked in green in Figure 11) opens the panel for a product to expose the keys available for the product o Export All Keys creates an Excel spreadsheet that contains all keys Categories for filtering Search box Products Downloads & Keys Icons Figure 11: Annotated view of Downloads and Keys page MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 11 You can change the number of products shown on a page by setting the Results per page option located at the bottom of the list of products.

10 Description Each product also has additional information that you can view, including the product version, special instructions, and system requirements. Viewing a Product Description To view additional information about a product, click the More link at the end of the brief description for the desired product. The Description drop-down panel expands, providing the Version, Release Date, Product Description, and System Requirements for the product selected. Click Less to collapse the section. Page selector Results per page Figure 12: Page selector and Results per page Figure 13 More information MVLC User Guide MVLC User Guide 12 Search and Filter Features To find a product, you can filter the possibilities by the product family and/or search for the specific product.