Microsoft update the Product Terms site for May 1, 2021 by confirming that User SLs are not required for any user to join a Teams meeting or a Teams Live event. User SLs are also not required for external users to participate in Teams channels as a Guest with an Azure AD External Identity: https://bit.ly/3eGET3e.
BizTalk Server 2020 Licensing Datasheet
We found a BizTalk Server 2020 Licensing Datasheet from Microsoft. It’s a useful summary of the editions, general licensing models, and options for licensing for virtualisation.
Find this Licensing Datasheet here: https://bit.ly/3nWHKrY.
Audio Conferencing and Phone System
Microsoft update the Product Terms site for May 1, 2021 by adding in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium as eligible prerequisite licences for Audio Conferencing and Phone System: https://bit.ly/2SEiaMG.
Dynamics 365 Licensing Brief
There’s a new (April 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Brief.
Its intent is to answer some questions, address some complex scenarios, and provide product information that may not exist in other documentation.
If you’ve got a reasonably good knowledge of Dynamics 365 licensing then it’s probably worth a read from start to end (it’s only 8 pages) to see if there’s any new information for you.
Find this Licensing Brief here: https://bit.ly/3ukog2M.
Dynamics 365 for Operations Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (May 2021) Dynamics 365 for Operations Licensing Guide. There are just minor formatting changes and some corrections made, but you can find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3xMS6Py.
Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (May 2021) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There are two main changes – some updates to some of the Dataverse capacity included in licences, and some updates to terminology – “entities” are now “tables”, “records” are now “rows”, and “API requests” are now “Power Platform requests”.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3eS5IjV.
Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (May 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. The first change of note is the amending of the term “entity” to “table” throughout, in line with the updating of some terminology in Dataverse – find details here: https://bit.ly/2Rls5WM. And the second change is the introduction of Electronic Invoicing transactions – see page 32. 100 transactions per tenant are included with Commerce, Finance, Project Operations, and Supply Chain Management licences, and there’s an Add-on available which adds an additional 1,000 transactions per month. Note that transactions do not roll over between months and customers must license for peak capacity.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/2Rrn1A8.
VLSC Software Assurance Guide
There’s an updated (January 2021) VLSC Software Assurance Guide. This is a useful document detailing how customers manage their SA benefits through the VLSC, and it’s fully updated for the imminent retirement of Training Vouchers and Planning Services.
Find this guide here: https://bit.ly/2QWvNWL.
Step-up licenses Volume Licensing Brief
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
Power Platform Licensing Guide
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.