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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s an updated (March 2021) Power Apps Licensing Guide.
The main change is the inclusion of rights to Power Automate within Windows licences via the Power Automate Desktop product, and there’s a useful table added on page 16 which gives a summary of the Power Automate use rights included in different licences.
Find out more about the Power Automate Desktop product on our blog here: http://bit.ly/30uS0Nc, and download the latest Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3ekVWbE.
There’s an updated (February 2021) Microsoft Open programs overview document.
Just four pages long, it’s a summary of all of the key points of the Open License, Open Value and Open Value Subscription programs, and is updated for the discontinuation of the Open License program in December 2021, and the availability of Open Value offers for education and nonprofit customers in July 2021.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/3kWBheV