Name change alert! Delve Analytics is now known as Microsoft MyAnalytics.
According to Microsoft it’s everything you loved in Delve Analytics with additional capabilities that will allow you to stay up-to-date with important contacts, share key metrics with a coach, and help you prioritise the time you spend with different groups.
Read all about it, watch a few videos, and find an FAQ here: http://bit.ly/2d7giFy.
Microsoft launch Windows Server 2016 at the Ignite conference and confirm that it will be on the October 2016 price list and available to download for Volume Licensing customers from mid-October.
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/2cyFeBK.
Updates for Office 365 ProPlus and Office 365 Business are made available on one of two main channels – the Current Channel and the Deferred Channel. If you want some detail on how the releases through these channels are made available and for how long they’re supported, as well as how you choose which channel to be on, then this is a useful article: http://bit.ly/1Ov0l8Q.
Heard about PSTN Consumption billing but you’re not quite sure what it is? This useful article from Microsoft will shed some light on the topic for you, showing you when it’s needed and how you set it up: http://bit.ly/2cwyeug.
Are you in charge of Enterprise Agreement true-ups for your organisation?
There’s a True-up Guide from Microsoft which may contain some useful tips for you. Find it in the Volume Licensing Programs section with all of the other useful guides from Microsoft here: https://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
If you’re eligible for Windows 10 in an academic institution, then this is a useful page detailing how to license and configure Windows 10 Pro Education and Windows 10 Education: http://bit.ly/2d9Esgu.
Want to know where the Microsoft Azure data centres are and what services are available in what region?
This is a useful page showing the current 30 regions including the two newest UK ones: http://bit.ly/2cIXMTG.
If you’re an existing user of Microsoft Project Online then you may know that the plans have changed – see our blog post: http://bit.ly/2buEoam for details.
There’s now also a useful page from Microsoft which is great if you’re wondering when you should take action to move off the retired plans, what happens at renewal, and how you can choose to switch plans.
The article is worth a read here: http://bit.ly/2cfQJhm.
Microsoft announce that Azure Active Directory Premium P2 is generally available from 15 September 2016: http://bit.ly/2d4ZJvV.
Azure AD Premium P2 includes all the capabilities of Azure AD Premium P1 as well as the new Azure AD Identity Protection and Azure AD Privileged Identity Management services.
This page is a good resource if you want to compare the services available in the P1 and P2 plans as well as AD Free and Basic editions: http://bit.ly/2cjdExc.
The new P2 plan will also be part of the Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 plan: http://bit.ly/29Cc0Er.
The Microsoft UK data centres (UK South and UK West) are open for Azure and Office 365 business with CRM Online coming in the first half of 2017.
Read the Microsoft announcement here: http://bit.ly/2cIWjNk.