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Power Apps Pay-As-You-Go model

An alternative to purchasing a Power Apps license is to pay for app usage on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) basis. Microsoft announced the general availability of this purchasing option in March 2022. There’s no ongoing commitment and an organization is just…

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Power Apps licenses

When an app is created, it is assigned to an environment. An environment is a place to store, manage and share an organization’s apps, and it’s also a container to separate apps that might have different security requirements or target…

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POWER APPS

The Power Apps product enables users of all technical abilities to create apps for an organization so that they can improve efficiency by perhaps taking time out of a process or creating an app to replace a paper-based process.

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Buying Online Services

The rules for buying licenses for Online Services are different in each of the Volume Licensing agreements and in CSP, so do check out the relevant sections for full details.

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Commitment

The typical commitment to any Online Services license is for 12 months, even though all pricing is monthly. The first exception to this is the Enterprise Agreement where the commitment can be up to the next anniversary, and the second…

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Other types of Online Services licenses

With the Dynamics 365 products there are a couple of further types of Online Services licenses. Tenant licenses A tenant license is a single license that is purchased for a tenant and enables the required functionality for the whole of…

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On-premises use rights

Many of the Online Services User SLs also include rights to access a licensed on-premises server. For example, an Office 365 E3 User SL includes the same rights as an Exchange Standard and Enterprise CAL, a SharePoint Standard and Enterprise…

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Tenant-level services

A tenant-level service is an Online Service that when it’s purchased for any user in the tenant is activated in part or in full for all users in the tenant. Sometimes it’s not possible to restrict access to the service…

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Types of Online Services User SLs

The majority of the Online Services are licensed with User Subscription Licenses. However, there are a number of different types, so let’s take a look. Full User SLs The regular User Subscription License is a Full license which means that…

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User types

The different Online Services plans licensed by user are each aimed at one of three different user types. Firstly, there are users who work for small and medium businesses. There’s always a debate about how big a small and medium…

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