There’s an updated (March 2022) Dynamics GP Licensing Guide. There are just minor changes which you can find detailed in the Change Log on page 11. Get this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3sJRCJP.
Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premises Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (March 2022) Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premises Licensing Guide. There are just minor changes which you can find detailed in the Change Log on page 17. Get this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3Me7bRB.
Managing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment
Customers buying direct from Microsoft via an EA or the Microsoft Customer Agreement can make a commitment to the amount of Azure services they intend to purchase over a given period – this is called a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
There are some new/updated resources for customers to help them manage MACC: the first (https://bit.ly/3Jje1DB) gives instructions on tracking MACC, and the second (https://bit.ly/3KRs8jH) is helpful in ascertaining whether purchasing certain Marketplace offers will contribute to this commitment.
Dynamics 365 for Operations Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (March 2022) Dynamics 365 for Operations Licensing Guide. There are just minor changes – some security roles added and removed, and some product name updates. You can find the updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3hv4g8L, and the Change Log on page 20 has full details of the amendments.
Microsoft Priva
Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 was made available in November 2021 with a Privacy Management – Risk User SL and a Privacy Management – Subject Rights Request licence. Note that Microsoft Priva has become the new branding for these solutions with the licences now called the Priva Privacy Risk Management User SL and the Priva Subject Rights Request licence.
See our blog for the original availability details here: https://bit.ly/3tExPKK, and/or learn more about Microsoft Priva here: https://bit.ly/3CoShDq.
Retirement of SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
Microsoft announce the retirement of SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. Existing users will be fully supported on the platform through February 2025 with the software maintained through SQL Server cumulative updates until that time.
There’s advice for replacement and migration options for customers here: https://bit.ly/35Xiblt, and you can find the retirement announcement here: https://bit.ly/3sMVUjl.
Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (February 2022) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
The Finance section is updated to include the default capacity of 20,000 AI Builder credits per tenant per month (see page 18), and there’s more detail added on pages 35 and 37 for the capabilities included in Guides and Remote Assist Device licences – see our blog (https://bit.ly/3C0vRIy) if these licences are new to you.
Find the February 2022 Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3uEes6G.
Azure Cost Management and the EA
If you’ve got an EA and you use Azure then you’ve managed Enrolments, Accounts, Departments and Subscriptions in the EA Enterprise Portal (ea.azure.com). There are better facilities for Azure Cost Management in the Azure Management Portal (portal.azure.com) and there’s a new set of videos to explain how you’d manage these elements as you move over to this portal.
Find them here: Managing Enrolments (https://bit.ly/3HVCi1I), Managing Accounts (https://bit.ly/3oPazIj), Managing Departments (https://bit.ly/3rUCQz6), and Managing Subscriptions (https://bit.ly/353SKyt).
Dynamics 365 Sales Insights capabilities added to Sales Enterprise licences
Microsoft announce that Dynamics 365 Sales Insights capabilities are added to Sales Enterprise licences. It’s not the same capacity that you’d get with a full Sales Insights licence, but Sales Enterprise-licensed users can now make use of Business Card Scanning, Conversation Intelligence, Sales Accelerator, and Lead & Opportunity Scoring.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3sj4dmR, and find details of the capacity included and how it compares to a full Sales Insights licence on page 24 of the February 2022 Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. Get that guide here: https://bit.ly/3uEes6G.
Azure Cost Management anomaly detection
Microsoft announce the public preview of Azure Cost Management anomaly detection. This alerts you to inconsistencies in spending across an Azure Subscription to help you to identify unexpected changes in cost.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3hfOfDL.