Microsoft announce two changes for Dragon Copilot. Firstly, the brand new (February 2026) Dragon Copilot Physician Practice licence will be End of Sale from 1 May, 2026; check out our blog if you blinked and missed that licence: https://bit.ly/48bhCl. Secondly, from 1 May, 2026 there’s a price reduction for the regular Dragon Copilot User SL.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4c0DX7B, and we’ll keep you posted for when the Microsoft licensing resources are updated.
The Agent 365 release on 1 May, 2026 introduces lots of new features and licensing concepts. Luckily, Microsoft are updating their resources in preparation, and these updated FAQs include newly-added licensing information.
Add this useful three-page document to your collection here: https://bit.ly/4srKfSz. A live website link and the document history are available in our Licensing Guides Gallery for subscribers: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.
Microsoft announce that CSP Software Subscription benefits are fully equivalent to Software Assurance from 1 April, 2026.
License Mobility (through Software Assurance) allows the use of eligible licences in Azure or on an Authorized Mobility Partner’s shared hardware and has long differentiated the two purchasing options. The change expands this outsourcing option to SQL Server, and the External Connectors for Windows Server and RDS. Of particular interest, Listed Providers Amazon, Google, and Alibaba are currently signed up as Authorized Mobility Partners.
Although System Center Server is also available as a Software Subscription, it’s somewhat neglected in the announcement, even though its Software Assurance counterpart has always been eligible for License Mobility.
Microsoft provide us with a range of resources to supplement the news.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4sWQsqH and some useful FAQs here: https://bit.ly/4m9eRXt .
The updated License Mobility guides cover the process and further details. Grab them here: https://bit.ly/4mcoKDM and here: https://bit.ly/4czaPDJ.
We’ve uncovered some useful and updated Software Assurance resources.
The Program Guide update includes typo and formatting corrections, while cleaning up (some!) references to the obsolete Windows To Go benefit. However, many of the previous Cautionary Notes are still lurking. The FAQs document features general Software Assurance questions and more specific benefits like the Workplace Discount Program and Flexible Virtualization Benefit.
Exclusively for subscribers, our Licensing Guides Gallery (https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery) outlines all details of the changes to be aware (and wary) of.
Grab a copy of the Program Guide here: https://bit.ly/4sAiQPm.
Find the FAQs here: https://bit.ly/3PnH9RX.
Microsoft announce a clarification to the January discontinuation of the Power Apps Per App User SL. The original announcement confirmed its End of Sale date as 2 January, 2026 – see our blog post here: https://bit.ly/4t4CwdV. This applied to all agreements and Microsoft swiftly removed it from the Licensing Guide and price lists. This update confirms that the change, in fact, does NOT affect CSP, and that it will return to price lists with full availability for new and renewing customers from early April. The Enterprise Agreement and MPSA End of Sale information still stands.
Find the original (updated!) article here: https://bit.ly/4b2TB2m, and the reintroduction announcement here: https://bit.ly/4szsK3N.
Microsoft have recently updated their set of Dynamics 365 FAQs. There are new questions about AI capabilities and licensing Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Sales, and Team Members. We now take PDF captures from the FAQs website so we (and you!) can keep on top of the complete history of changes. Subscribers will find this in our Licensing Guides Gallery (https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery) along with the link to the live website.
Find a copy of the FAQs here: https://bit.ly/4rPeHpx.
Microsoft announce the general availability of the Azure SRE Agent. It’s interesting from a licensing perspective because it’s a pre-built Azure Agent and thus doesn’t consume the same Copilot Credits that Copilot Studio Agents do. Instead, it consumes a new measure – Azure Agent Units or AAUs. This, clearly, is a bit of a headache if you have Agents using different units and that’s where the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan comes in. This is a cost-effective way of purchasing Agent Commit Units which can be consumed by usage of both Copilot Credits and Azure Agent Units.
You can find more information on the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan on our blog here: https://bit.ly/4uILb7v, and the Azure SRE Agent announcement article is here: https://bit.ly/3NHs9h6.
Microsoft announce new Dataverse capacities for Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, arriving 15 April 2026. There are three changes: default Dataverse Database capacity increases from 30 GB to 45 GB, accrued per-licence Dataverse Database capacity doubles from 250 MB to 500 MB, and the default Dataverse File capacity jumps from 40 GB to 60 GB.
A mid-month update to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Deck and Licensing Guide reflects these changes, albeit not lacking an error or two. You’ll find the full announcement in the Message Center section of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center here: https://bit.ly/4dctc3f.
Grab the updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4cYgogG, and Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/4lOZTG7. Subscribers can access all versions of these licensing resources and see the changes to be aware (and wary) of, with our What’s New and Cautionary Notes tags in the Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.
Agent 365 – product or licence? Both, of course! Firstly, it’s a control plane for AI Agents, helping businesses to deploy, organize, and govern AI Agents securely. It gives each AI Agent its own Microsoft Entra Agent ID for identity, lifecycle, and access management, and allows Agents to be observable and managed in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. That’s where it’s currently in preview through the early-access Frontier program and, when you go to try it out, 25 Agent 365 licences are provisioned to your tenant for assignment to Agents. However, at General Availability of Agent 365 on 1 May, 2026 it’s a human user that’s licensed, for $15 per user per month. All Agents acting on behalf of a licensed user are covered, meaning that Agents won’t require their own Agent 365 or Microsoft 365 E7 licence.
Resources-wise, find an overview and interactive demo on the Agent 365 website: https://bit.ly/4rDQQJw, and the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4bLAHge.
Microsoft announce a new Azure Savings Plan for Databases. Like its cousin, the Azure Savings Plan for Compute, this is a way of committing to a certain amount of spend every hour which then entitles you to preferential rates on a variety of services. In the case of this new Savings Plan, it’s a whole range of database services of course, and it includes things like Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB. It’s available to transact through the Azure Management Portal but is currently only available for a 1-year term.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4sGSWK1, and a useful set of FAQs here: https://bit.ly/4d5IFlD.