What is Solutions Pathway?
A. Microsoft recognizes the need to provide small and medium business (SMB) customers, and the partners serving these customers, with an easy way to migrate their technology products as their business needs change—whether that entails a move to Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products or movement within the Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products or out of the family to its individual components. With that in mind, Microsoft is introducing Solutions Pathway, which will enable the partners help their customers to upgrade to a new product or solution quite easily from the one that the customers are currently using. Solutions Pathway offers a tiered discount that will be applicable to various mobility scenarios, i.e. into, within, and out of Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products, and will replace previously offered products, such as Version Upgrade (VUP), Product Upgrade Pack (PUP) and Transition Pack (TP), to achieve the same outcomes. Partners,
A. Microsoft recognizes the need to provide small and medium size business customers with an easy way to migrate their technology products as their business needs change—whether that entails a migration into, within, or out of Windows Essential Server Solutions (WESS) 2008 family of products to their standalone components. With that in mind, we have launched a program, named Solutions Pathway, which provides solutions to alleviate the additional stresses of running a successful business and enables companies to easily migrate to a new Microsoft solution from the one they are currently using. Solutions Pathway offers a tiered discount that will be applicable to various upgrade and migration scenarios. The program replaces previously offered products, such as Version Upgrade (VUP), Product Upgrade (PUP) and Transition Pack (TP)—for all customers wanting to purchase any WESS 2008 family of products: Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server (SBS) 2008.
Related Questions
- What are the licensing implications for Solutions Pathway? If I have SBS 2003 R2 Standard OEM and want to apply an upgrade to SBS 2008 via Solutions Pathway, am I allowed to transfer the licenses?
- My country is tax exempt, and I have already placed an order on the Solutions Pathway. How do I request a refund for the taxes charged on my order?
- When is version 2 of Solutions Pathway scheduled for release and what new features can we expect?
