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Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (May 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. The first change of note is the amending of the term “entity” to “table” throughout, in line with the updating of some terminology in Dataverse – find details here: https://bit.ly/2Rls5WM. And the second change is the introduction of Electronic Invoicing transactions – see page 32. 100 transactions per tenant are included with Commerce, Finance, Project Operations, and Supply Chain Management licences, and there’s an Add-on available which adds an additional 1,000 transactions per month. Note that transactions do not roll over between months and customers must license for peak capacity.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/2Rrn1A8.

VLSC Software Assurance Guide

There’s an updated (January 2021) VLSC Software Assurance Guide. This is a useful document detailing how customers manage their SA benefits through the VLSC, and it’s fully updated for the imminent retirement of Training Vouchers and Planning Services.

Find this guide here: https://bit.ly/2QWvNWL.

Step-up licenses Volume Licensing Brief

There’s an updated (February 2021) Step-up licenses Volume Licensing Brief from Microsoft. This is a useful document to learn about how Step-up licenses for both software products and Online Services work.

Find this updated Volume Licensing Brief here: https://bit.ly/3wOQpkh

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (April 2021) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There’s extra clarification added throughout around API management including confirmation on page 23 that the number of daily API requests in a Power Virtual Agents capacity add-on is limited to 15,000 per tenant.

Find this updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/2Q2dSNO.

Business Central on-premises Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (April 2021) Business Central on-premises Licensing Guide. Application Builder and Solution Developer are no longer available for purchase and are thus removed from the Configuration Component table on page 7, and the tables detailing the functionality in the Essentials and Premium licences are updated on pages 5 to 7.

Find this updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3mAm9ES.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (April 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide which has undergone an editorial review so there are some layout and language changes. It’s also updated for the new way that Tiers and overage capacity work in the Commerce solution, and for the new Cloud Scale Units available for Supply Chain Management.

Find this updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/2ReqUsj.

Microsoft Career Coach

Microsoft announce Career Coach which is a Teams app, powered by LinkedIn, that provides personalised guidance for higher education students as they get started on their careers.

You can find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3dWfSQd, and a useful e-book giving the background to the need for Career Coach and the benefits it offers here: https://bit.ly/32gNNNP.

Multiplexing Volume Licensing Brief

There’s an updated (March 2021) Multiplexing Volume Licensing Brief from Microsoft which is updated for the renaming of the Common Data Service to Dataverse.

This is a useful document if you want to learn more about how multiplexing may impact the licensing needs of customers, and there’s a wide range of products covered with plenty of examples and scenarios.

Find this updated Volume Licensing Brief here: https://bit.ly/3a2KoGI.

Microsoft Cloud App Security Licensing Datasheet

We found a July 2020 Microsoft Cloud App Security Licensing Datasheet that you might find useful if you want to learn the ins and outs of licensing the Cloud App Security and Cloud App Discovery solutions from Microsoft.

It’s 8 pages long with an overview section, followed by some useful FAQs. Find it here: https://bit.ly/2PRGsBz.

Changes to Intune and EMS E3

Microsoft add extra security and management functionality into their Intune and EMS E3 offerings and will increase prices from 1 July, 2021. Licences for Intune will increase from $6 to $8 per user per month, and EMS E3 from $9 to $11, although the price for Microsoft 365 E3 will not change.

Find details of the increased functionality, and price changes here: http://bit.ly/3smPpRw.