There’s a February 2023 version of the popular Microsoft 365 plan comparison document showing you the different components in all of the Enterprise and Frontline Worker plans and the Add-on licences that are available. Find this useful document here: https://bit.ly/2LG4gqi.
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Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (February 2023) Power Platform Licensing Guide. You’ll notice a brand-new cover, and there’s some reworking of the existing content with increased information on pay-as-you-go options. Find this updated guide here: http://bit.ly/3RWimBJ.
Teams Premium generally available
Microsoft announce that Teams Premium is generally available. This is an Add-on to any paid Teams licence (see the Product Terms for a full list: http://bit.ly/3eGET3e) and has an introductory price of $7 per user per month, increasing to the regular price of $10 per user per month from 1 July, 2023.
Although it’s a user licensing model, there are some features which as long as the meeting organizer is licensed for Teams Premium, all attendees will have access to that feature – live translation of captions, for example.
Generally, Teams Premium users can expect lots of additional features in five key areas: intelligent meetings, personalised meetings, protected meetings, Virtual Appointments, and advanced webinars.
Find the announcement article here: http://bit.ly/3YvXBzi, and information on the licensing here: http://bit.ly/3lBbH3L.
Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (February 2023) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of minor updates detailed in the Change Log on page 62. Find this updated guide here: http://bit.ly/3XvxzdW.
Cost Management now available for Indirect EA customers
Microsoft announce that Indirect EA customers can now manage their billing account directly in the Azure Management Portal, and that comparable features will no longer be available in the EA portal starting 20 February, 2023. Find the announcement article with links to useful documentation and how-to videos here: http://bit.ly/3kE0rTI.
Concurrent Exchange Online licence assignments
Microsoft introduce support for concurrent Exchange Online licence assignments, which means that users can now be assigned multiple licences that include access to Exchange Online. This article (http://bit.ly/3XNIpg6) gives you an overview of how it all works and the benefits of stacking licences in this way.
Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (January 2023) Power Platform Licensing Guide. The main changes are for the addition of Managed Environments (see our blog post here for more information: http://bit.ly/3kJID9V) and the new Hosted RPA Add-on licence (see our blog post here for more information on that: http://bit.ly/3DhqTsE).
Grab your copy of the updated Licensing Guide here: http://bit.ly/3Hwf3gT.
Licensing hosted RPA scenarios
Power Automate now supports two hosted RPA scenarios to enable organisations to set up and scale automation. As a reminder, RPA desktop flows can be run either with human interaction (known as “attended”) or without (“unattended”). The new options offer a hosted machine for attended or unattended RPA aimed at users who want to build, test or run automation. Alternatively, there’s a hosted machine group option for unattended RPA which offers automatic scaling and dynamic load balancing. From a licensing perspective, you need to acquire a Hosted RPA Add-on licence for as many bots as you want to run concurrently, and this licence has a prerequisite of either the Power Automate Per User with Attended RPA licence or a Per Flow licence, and costs $215 per bot per month.
You can find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/3JbWoZ4, pricing here: http://bit.ly/3ooVJb2, and the Learn documentation here: http://bit.ly/3DfJN3f.
Microsoft Cost Management summary for 2022
The Microsoft Cost Management tools help you to manage your Microsoft cloud costs across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure. There’s an excellent article giving an overview of the improvements that were made to the tools in 2022, as well as the new ways to save money that were introduced.
You can find the article here: http://bit.ly/3Wltkkw, with its many links to lots of useful resources.
Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (January 2023) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. There are a couple of minor clarifications (see the Change Log on page 62), and the addition of Managed Environments throughout. Managed Environments were generally available in October 2022 (http://bit.ly/3WwzXRr) and enable IT administrators greater visibility and more control of apps and flows in an environment. Of licensing-worthy note is that when Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in that environment requires standalone licenses.
You can find out more about Managed Environments here: http://bit.ly/3iQ9QqA and grab the updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3WQvMRn.