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Mike Austin (speaker) compares Cloud Service Provider (CSP) offerings versus Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA). He states the primary benefit of CSP over EA relates to an EA clause requiring "qualified users" to be licensed with an enterprise product. In Microsoft terms that means Office 365 / M365 enterprise SKUs (E1, E3, E5) and frontline suites (F1, F3). The speaker will discuss Office/M365 products first, then Azure.

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Office 365 / M365 enterprise SKUs: E1, E3, E5, and frontline suites F1, F3.

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