Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Dynamics 365 Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Dynamics 365 products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.
Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4pNh1xk, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3UUQ7pp.
There’s an updated (September 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just minor changes: there’s clarification on page 40 that “invoices” refers to “vendor invoices”, and missing Project Operations information is reinstated on page 55. Errors introduced into the August 2025 version are also corrected.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3UUQ7pp.
There’s an updated (September 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. The main change is the renaming of “messages” to “Copilot Credits”, but there’s also some futureproofing done where specific LLM names are removed. These are replaced with the more generic “Basic”, “Standard” and “Premium” groupings – for instance in the AI Builder capability table on page 13.
Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JIOWXx.
Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Power Platform Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Power Platform products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.
Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4neUXKz, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4niroI7.
Microsoft announce that they will delay the price increase for Dynamics 365 Business Central from 1 October, 2025 to 1 November, 2025.
Find the announcement with details of the price increases and the change of date here: https://bit.ly/4mgvVJK.
If you’ve always wondered if there was a difference between Azure Reservations and Capacity Reservations, then there’s a jolly useful article which explains the difference and why you might want to use both.
Find it here: https://bit.ly/48azNZg.
Microsoft announce a range of security and compliance Add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium. From a security perspective, there’s the Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium, costing $10 per user per month, and for compliance there’s the Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium, also costing $10 per user per month. Alternatively, the Microsoft Defender and Purview Suites for Business Premium are a cost effective way of purchasing everything at $15 per user per month.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3JUp635, with details of what components are in which suite.
Microsoft announce a number of changes to Copilot licensing.
Firstly, there’s more usage of AI tools included in a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, and consumption is now measured in Copilot Credits, rather than messages.
Secondly, there’s a spot of renaming for the Copilot Studio experiences: Agent Builder, when you’re using Copilot Studio as a Microsoft 365 Copilot user, is now called Copilot Studio Lite, with the full experience being (helpfully) called Copilot Studio Full.
And there are changes to the Role Based Copilots too – from 10 October, 2025 if you’ve got a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence you won’t need to pay extra for Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, or Copilot for Finance (aka Finance Agents) – they’ll just be available to install from the Agent Store.
Grab the datasheet with this information here: https://bit.ly/46597I7.
There’s an updated (August 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just some minor changes. The documented ones are some enhancements to the Team Members Use Rights table on page 53, but the undocumented ones are slightly more bizarre… On pages 13 and 14 some tables have been reformatted to (presumably) make them easier for AI to read. However, the formatting’s gone awry and numerical ranges are now all dates: 1-8 becomes 8-Jan for example.
Odd edits aside, it’s a useful guide and you can grab it here: https://bit.ly/4fhZkRM.
Microsoft announce that there won’t be a new version of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for SQL Server 2025 and that Power BI Report Server will become the default reporting solution. Power BI Report Server has long been available for customers with SQL Server Enterprise Core licences with SA but with the launch of SQL Server 2025 the eligibility rules change. Any customer with a licence for a paid-for edition of SQL Server 2025 (with or without SA) will be able to use their SQL Server keys to install both SQL Server 2025 and Power BI Report Server. For customers who want to continue using SSRS 2022, that product remains supported until 11 January, 2033.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/45cID6T, and a useful FAQ here: https://bit.ly/4lWjVx2.