Are you thinking about using Microsoft Azure services for your IT Infrastructure or applications. But you don’t know if it is economic viable or what the total cost of ownership is going to be? Or do you want to know…
Software Vendors like SAP, Sage, Ivanti and many others use databases for storing the data used by their applications. Microsoft SQL Server is one of the database solutions used by these so called ISV’s (Independent Software Vendors). These vendors buy…
Customers with a Microsoft licensing contract with active Software Assurance are eligible to Software Assurance Planning Services. These services can be obtained from qualified Microsoft partners. We are proud to announce that Quexcel is now one of those partners. Below…
Microsoft Visual Studio has been the software development and testing software for many years. Over the years Microsoft has added more features to every new version. Including the new 2019 version which is available now. Buy or subscribe? There are…
The Quexcel Knowledge Base has been around quite some years. We publish news around technology, cloud subscriptions, software licensing and legal matters on a regular basis. At the same time, our customers told us that keeping track on all what…
Microsoft has a 10 year support lifecycle for their on-premises software. Some of their software is close to the End of Extended Support. An overview: July 9, 2019: SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2, Enterprise and Standard January 14, 2020: Windows…
Are organizations allowed to run Microsoft test or evaluation software within their production environment? Again a simple question but there is no simple answer. We need to split this question into two topics: software for (development) and test, and evaluation…
Last week Microsoft introduced their HoloLens2, the successor of the mixed reality HoloLens which we knew for a couple of years. Up till now, HoloLens is mainly used within larger corporations for lowering maintenance costs (like Boeing and ThyssenKrupp). But…
On January 10, 2019 Microsoft announced a new and comprehensive way customers can use to subscribe to Azure: the Microsoft Customer Agreement. This Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) is not entirely new, we have seen it since 2017 in the Microsoft…
The simple answer is: Yes, you should. But there is more to tell. Here is some explanation on what ‘end of support’ actually means and some scenario’s you might want to follow to ‘fix’ old SQL Server installations. Microsoft support,…
When performing managed or project based Software Asset Management Services we collect large amounts of customer data. This data is the foundation for our services and consulting. Examining this data helps customer discover deeper insights. We help make predictions and…
We reported earlier on the new Server Subscriptions for Azure in the Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider Program. We also reported to be surprised that the Windows Server Remote Desktop Services Client Access License (Windows Server RDS CAL) was the only…