Who are you using to purchase your Microsoft licenses from? We are a midsize enterprise (450 office licenses, plus a bunch of Dynamics spend)  We are looking for a vendor that will provide support since we cannot budget for Microsoft direct support.  We are also trying to determine if there are benefits to signing a EA over signing a 3 year agreement with someone like Telus who does not have access to EAs (like Softchoice)

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Director, Technology Services & Telus Health, Procurement2 days ago

I don't understand the comment about TELUS? can you clarify?

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