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Licence management for Dynamics 365 ERP apps

Microsoft announce a change to the schedule for the licence enforcement of the Dynamics 365 ERP apps. The original date when licences needed to be assigned to users was 1 September, 2025 and that was then moved out to 1 November, 2025. Now the date is the customer’s first anniversary/renewal after 15 January, 2026. After that time unlicensed users will get alerts 30 days before the renewal, and then if licences aren’t assigned within 15 days of the anniversary/renewal date, users will lose access to the apps.

You can find an updated announcement here: https://bit.ly/4pSzaKd, and a useful FAQ here: https://bit.ly/3Kqzq39.

Subscription Editions added to SPLA

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SE) has long been available, and Microsoft made Exchange Server SE and Skype for Business Server SE generally available in July 2025 through the traditional Volume Licensing agreements. In the VL agreements you always need to have active SA on the Server and CAL licences to use the product, and thus there’s been a question mark over what happens in SPLA, especially since Exchange and Skype for Business come to end of support on 14 October, 2025. Well, the latest updates to the SPUR give us our answer – all three SE products are added for the October 2025 SPUR update.

Find the SPUR website here: https://bit.ly/4q0DmYK.

Microsoft rebrand security and compliance suites for Enterprise plans

Microsoft rebrand the security and compliance suite Add-ons for Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans from 1 October, 2025. This aligns the names with the recently introduced SMB security and compliance suites which you can read more about on our blog here: https://bit.ly/3IsVjhH. The functionality remains the same, with Microsoft 365 E5 Security now becoming the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance becoming the Microsoft Purview Suite.

Find out the details here: https://bit.ly/46R1KTE.

Changes to price levels for Online Services

Microsoft announce that they will remove the programmatic discount price levels for Online Services in the EA and MPSA from 1 November, 2025. Existing customers will be affected by this change at their next agreement renewal or when they purchase new Online Services not on their Customer Price Sheet after 1 November. There’s no change to the price levels for on-premises software and the price lists for US Government and education customers aren’t affected.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/45Ivy5J.

Windows Server 2025 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Windows Server Licensing Guide which corrects a couple of previous errors by removing text which states that customers need a minimum of 16 Core licenses when licensing by virtual machine.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3IbVyxo.

Teams or no Teams?

Microsoft announce that the inclusion of Teams will once more be an option for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suite customers. From 1 November, 2025 Office 365 E1/E3/E5 and Microsoft 365 E3/E5 will be available both with and without Teams, alongside the Frontline Worker and Business suites which continue to be available with or without Teams.

Find the details in the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/3WccCXc, along with information about other changes made in response to European competition concerns.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide with just a minor change for the renaming of Copilot messages to Copilot Credits.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JGHyfv.

Dynamics 365 licensing resources

Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Dynamics 365 Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Dynamics 365 products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.

Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4pNh1xk, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3UUQ7pp.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just minor changes: there’s clarification on page 40 that “invoices” refers to “vendor invoices”, and missing Project Operations information is reinstated on page 55. Errors introduced into the August 2025 version are also corrected.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3UUQ7pp.

Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. The main change is the renaming of “messages” to “Copilot Credits”, but there’s also some futureproofing done where specific LLM names are removed. These are replaced with the more generic “Basic”, “Standard” and “Premium” groupings – for instance in the AI Builder capability table on page 13.

Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JIOWXx.