There’s a new (April 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Brief.
Its intent is to answer some questions, address some complex scenarios, and provide product information that may not exist in other documentation.
If you’ve got a reasonably good knowledge of Dynamics 365 licensing then it’s probably worth a read from start to end (it’s only 8 pages) to see if there’s any new information for you.
Find this Licensing Brief here: https://bit.ly/3ukog2M.
There’s an updated (May 2021) Dynamics 365 for Operations Licensing Guide. There are just minor formatting changes and some corrections made, but you can find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3xMS6Py.
There’s an updated (May 2021) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There are two main changes – some updates to some of the Dataverse capacity included in licences, and some updates to terminology – “entities” are now “tables”, “records” are now “rows”, and “API requests” are now “Power Platform requests”.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3eS5IjV.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.