November 2025 Power Platform resources

There are updated (November 2025) Power Platform licensing resources now available. References to AI Builder Capacity Packs have been removed, as part of the transition to Copilot Credits, which you can read more about in our blog here: https://bit.ly/4hOxpdw. On page 21, there’s an updated table that shows the changes to the default capacity entitlements in Dataverse, ahead of the anticipated changes on December 1, 2025.

You’ll find details in the Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/48XHjat, and the supplementary Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/4olptmm.

Finance Solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft announce that the Finance Solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available. You might have heard of it by a different name since it’s a product that’s already undergone a series of name changes – Copilot for Finance and Finance Agents to name a couple. Now it’s essentially a set of Agents designed to automate various financial tasks across apps like Excel and Outlook, connecting to ERP systems such as Dynamics 365 and SAP. From a licensing perspective, you need to be licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot and the relevant ERP system.

Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/43o2r66.

Windows 365 connection methods

The options for accessing a Windows 365 Cloud PC have somewhat evolved over time, with an array of choices available! A relatively new offering is Windows 365 Link, a purpose-built hardware device optimised for Windows 365. Windows 365 Boot is a feature that lets you boot directly into your Cloud PC, bypassing the local experience entirely. For hybrid environments, Windows 365 Switch lets you move seamlessly between your local and Cloud PC. Finally, with The Windows App, you gain cross-platform access from virtually any device.

This useful update in the Windows blog provides a helpful summary with more detail: https://bit.ly/49K3Ojg.

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

The Modern Work Plan Comparison documents for November 2025 have been released. These documents now fully reflect the updated names for the Defender and Purview Add-ons and show the reintroduced Office and Microsoft 365 licenses with Teams included. In the SMB comparison, a new footnote confirms a maximum of 300 User SLs across all Business plans combined. Separate PDF files are available for the Enterprise, SMB, US Government, and Education sectors which you can find here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. If you’re a partner, an Excel version of these files is also available.

If you’d like a copy, drop us an email from your work email address to info@licensingschool.co.uk, and we’ll send it on.

Launch of RHEL Software Reservations

Microsoft announce that Software Reservations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are generally available. There are now 32 members of the Reservations family where you can receive a discount on an Azure service by making a duration-based commitment. For an RHEL Software Reservation you need to commit for a year, and you can expect discounts of up to 24% when you run RHEL software on Azure virtual machines. As we expect with Reservations, this Software Reservation is applied automatically to any deployed RHEL VMs that match the Reservation, and there’s also instance size flexibility which means that the discount is applied even when you deploy a VM with a different virtual core count from the Reservation.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4hNBq1W, and some useful Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/3JKKqrT.

Azure VM vCore customisation

Microsoft announce the preview of Azure virtual machine vCore customisation, with two features that give you greater control over the CPU resources of a VM. Firstly, you can disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading allowing you to run a VM with only one thread per physical core which can improve performance for certain workloads. Secondly, and more interesting from a licensing perspective, you can choose a custom number of virtual cores for a new VM which is lower than the default count for that VM size. Now, this doesn’t reduce the price of the VM, but it can reduce the licensing costs for software billed by virtual core – SQL Server for example.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/47609uA, and some useful Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4oRzSWU.

LicenseVerse Glossary

Craving clarity on licensing lingo? Bamboozled by an abbreviation? We have a comprehensive glossary with more than 1,000 short, clear definitions, covering a whole range of licensing topics. Best of all, it’s free, so why not take a look?

Find it here: https://bit.ly/LVGlossary.

Azure Customer Solution Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Azure Customer Solution Licensing Guide – a document which is designed to explain some of the rules and scenarios around creating and selling a solution in Azure. Historically it’s been targeted at organisations that Microsoft call ISVs, but that term’s been updated to SDC – a Software Development Company – and that’s probably the most significant edit in this updated document.

Keep your Licensing Guide stash up to date by grabbing this guide here: https://bit.ly/46LkFzk.

Business Central price and capacity November changes

The expected changes for Dynamics 365 Business Central are live as of November 1, 2025. The ERP software aimed at small businesses now has increased pricing and accrued database storage capacity, in line with Microsoft’s announcement back in May. Essentials licences are now $80/month with 3 GB storage (up from $70/month and 2 GB), Premium licences are $110/month with 5 GB storage (up from $100/month and 3 GB), and Device licences are $45/month with 1.5 GB storage (up from $40/month and 1 GB). There are no changes to the 80 GB default capacity or the Team Members licence.

The original announcement is here: https://bit.ly/4nCglZy and you can see the new prices here: https://bit.ly/4oWE7Ax. Details are also listed in our new Product price adjustments page in LicenseVerse, providing subscribers a really useful reference and record of price changes across all products.

AI Builder credits transition to Copilot Credits

Microsoft announce a progressive end to AI Builder credits which are consumed by AI Builder features in Power Apps and Power Automate. In Copilot Studio, AI Builder features consume Copilot Credits and this will be the case for Power Apps and Power Automate from 1 November, 2025. If you’ve previously purchased AI Builder credit packs those credits will still work, and as an existing customer you can buy more credit packs and renew the licences until 1 November, 2026. If you’ve got licences that include AI Builder credits then those credits will still be available until 1 November, 2026. Mixed environments are supported too; AI Builder features in Power Apps and Power Automate will consume AI Builder credits first, and then Copilot Credits if there are no AI Builder credits available.

Find a summary page with a useful timeline and FAQ here: https://bit.ly/47vLeZu.