visual-studio-subs.md

title	About Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise
intro	You can give {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscribers on your team access to {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} with a combined offering from Microsoft.
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versions	ghec ghes * *
shortTitle	Visual Studio subs
contentType	concepts
category	Manage enterprise licenses

[!NOTE] Customers with a {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} bundle can switch to usage-based billing for {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} licenses. This allows you to pay for licenses on a flexible monthly cycle for users who are not part of your {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscription. See AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.vss-ghe-description %} {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghe %} is available from Microsoft under the terms of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. For more information, see {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghe %} on the {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} website.

To use the {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} portion of the license, each subscriber's personal account on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} must be or become a member of an organization owned by your enterprise on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. To accomplish this, organization owners can invite new members to an organization by email address. The subscriber can accept the invitation with an existing personal account or create a new account.

For more information about the setup of {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghe %}, see AUTOTITLE.

About licenses for {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghec %}

After you assign a license for {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghec %} to a subscriber, the subscriber will use the {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} portion of the license by joining an organization in your enterprise with a personal account on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. If the verified email address for the personal account of an enterprise member on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} matches the User Principal Name (UPN) for a subscriber to your {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} account, the {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscriber will automatically consume one license for {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghec %}.

[!NOTE] For {% data variables.product.prodname_emus %} only, to make sure a user account consumes a {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} license, ensure the {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} UPN matches the SCIM userName attribute or the email address from the linked identity on the {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} account.

The total quantity of your licenses for your enterprise on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} is the sum of any standard {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} licenses and the number of {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscription licenses that include access to {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. Unaffiliated users are included in the automatic matching behavior and can consume a license for {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghec %} while remaining unaffiliated.

If the personal account for an enterprise member does not correspond with the email address for a {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscriber, an enterprise owner can manually match the accounts to consolidate licenses. Under the terms of service, the {% data variables.product.github %} account and {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscription must belong to the same person.

For more information about {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}, see AUTOTITLE. For more information about accounts on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}, see AUTOTITLE.

About licenses for {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %}

{% data reusables.enterprise.ghe-includes-ghec-and-ghes %} For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

For users only on {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %}, each {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscriber will only consume one license as long as the email address associated with their {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} account matches their {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} UPN. This does not apply if you have switched to usage-based billing, in which case users must also be on {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} to consume a bundled license.

For users on both {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} and {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}, only one license will be consumed as long as you follow the instructions in the 'About licenses for {% data variables.visual_studio.prodname_vss_ghec %}' section, and the user's accounts are linked as described in AUTOTITLE.

Further reading

• {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} subscriptions with {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} in Microsoft Docs
• Use {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} or {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %} to deploy apps from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} in Microsoft Docs