Microsoft announce that Copilot in Azure is generally available, accessed from the Azure Management Portal and designed to help you answer questions, complete tasks, and discover and utilise Azure services. It was free in preview, and continues to be free now, although a customer’s excessive use of a Microsoft generative AI service may result in temporary throttling of their access to the service.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4lEXfCh.
There’s an updated (April 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a minor change to the wording of the prerequisites for the Customer Insights Attach licence on page 13.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/42iGfJe.
Microsoft unveil Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for clinical workflow. It’s a combination of Dragon Medical One (well known for its voice dictation capabilities) and DAX Copilot (which provides ambient listening capabilities). Its objective is to help clinicians with documenting patient records and, to that end, it’s compatible with all major Electronic Health Records solutions and is part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4inH2zx.
There’s an updated (March 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There are minimal changes from the February 2025 version and note that a couple of errors still remain in the table on page 3.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4iquFTa.
Microsoft announce that there’s a new Azure Site Recovery (ASR) calculator to help you to estimate the total cost of ownership for ASR scenarios and to give you a detailed cost breakdown of the different components.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/41IFyZA, which includes a link to download the Excel-spreadsheet calculator.
There’s an updated (February 2025) Office LTSC licensing guidance document from Microsoft. It’s a bit of a strange update – features such as Windows To Go (retired by Microsoft in 2020) are still included, and there are some useful tables which have been removed. Be aware too, that there are some new errors sprinkled throughout.
Keep your licensing guidance document collection complete and grab this guide here: https://bit.ly/43TyyeM.
Microsoft introduce a new tenant-level outbound email limit based on the number of email licences that a tenant has. There’s a table showing sample limits with various licence counts, or you can work it out yourself using the provided formula – have you ever calculated anything to the power of 0.7? Now’s your chance!
Enforcement starts from 3 April, 2025 and you can find all the pertinent details with a useful FAQ in the lengthy announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4ijbhYm.
There’s an updated (February 2025) Step-up licenses licensing guidance document from Microsoft, with minimal changes, covering the way Step-up licenses work for on-premises software and Online Services in the traditional Volume Licensing agreements. Help yourself to this updated document here: https://bit.ly/41QlVhW.
Microsoft announce that Copilot is now available in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center for administrators to ask natural language questions as they tackle unfamiliar tasks. As long as an organisation has purchased 1 licence of Microsoft 365 Copilot, anyone with access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center can use Copilot in this way.
Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4ie2d73.
There are updated (March 2025) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with lines added for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting and XDR.
These useful documents tell you which of the (many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/4kyNmWi), one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/4hDoMRj), and still more for specialist US Government customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/4bYkXoy), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/41ApWqX) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/4hF1CKf).