What is a 'qualified user' according to this content?

Name: Microsoft EA True Ups - Episode 4
Uploaded: 2023-08-10T15:00:16+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains who counts as a qualified user under Microsoft enterprise licensing: employees, consultants, and contingent staff who use a…

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Microsoft EA True Ups - Episode 4

10 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin explains who counts as a qualified user under Microsoft enterprise licensing: employees, consultants, and contingent staff who use a qualified device or access products like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, or Windows Server. Microsoft may treat contractors as employees if they access these devices or software.

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An employee, consultant, or contingent staff member who uses a qualified device (e.g., PC running or capable of connecting to Windows/VDI) or accesses enterprise product software (examples: Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Windows Server, System Center).

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Now, what's a qualified user? So a qualified user is defined here as an employee, consultant, and contingent staff. So it is a user of a qualified device. So if they're using one of those PCs that runs Windows or is capable of connecting to a VDI and running Windows, they're a qualified user, or they access any software that's running in an enterprise product, client access license. So that eCal, so that's going to be Exchange, SharePoint1 teams, Windows servers, System center servers, all the stuff that's in the ecal. Okay. So what you'll notice here, there's a couple of things that are important, because I get asked all the time, are my contractors considered employees? And the answer is Microsoft will consider them an employee if they're either accessing qualified device or running software.