Microsoft confirm that Power BI Premium is generally available: http://bit.ly/2s9hhKN. Take a look at our earlier blog post for an overview of Power BI Premium: http://bit.ly/2qMOr4B.
Power BI Report Server is also generally available and page 32 of the June 2017 Product Terms confirms that customers with active SA on SQL Server Enterprise Core licences have rights to run Power BI Report Server.
Microsoft release a special June 2017 Product Terms Addendum to take account of the name changes coming to the Dynamics 365 products on 1 July, 2017.
In summary, Operations becomes the Dynamics 365 Unified Operations Plan, Plan 1 becomes the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Plan, and Plan 2 becomes the Dynamics 365 Plan.
Download this addendum here: http://bit.ly/2rRqysz.
Microsoft announce that Dynamics 365 for Talent is now in Technical Preview. Find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/2sjccm9 with an overview of the features and an introductory video where the last line sums up the proposition of this new product: “To find the right people, keep them engaged, productive, and working for you, all you need is Talent.” According to the original announcement in May (http://bit.ly/2r9Bsa7) look out for this product in July 2017.
If you need a Dynamics NAV 2017 Licensing Guide, then we’ve just added one to our Licensing Guides library at http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
This Guide gives you an overview of the NAV 2017 licensing requirements and then focuses on the two licensing models: Perpetual Licensing and Subscription Licensing.
Page 43 of the June 2017 Product Terms document confirms that the new Windows 10S operating system is not eligible as a qualifying operating system for a Windows 10 Pro upgrade licence acquired through a Volume Licensing program. There is, however, the usual exception for Academic and Charity customers
We found an updated (December 2016) guide snappily entitled “License Mobility through Microsoft Software Assurance Verification Guide for Customers”. Essentially, this is a useful document if you want to check out the required processes to use traditional licences with SA to license workloads in the cloud. Its main update covers the fact that you can now email the License Verification form to Microsoft.
Find the guide in the Application Servers section of our Licensing Guides emporium: http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
There’s an updated Services Provider Use Rights (SPUR) document for June 2017 where the major change is that the minimum of 16 Core licences is removed for R Server and fail-over rights have been granted for all editions. Find R Server on page 22.
The May 2017 Hosting and Cloud Service Provider Newsletter is out. There’s just one item of licensing interest: the FY17 Q4 Quarterly Licensing Brief is on 22nd June and has some interesting topics.
Register here: http://bit.ly/2rVVZ6j to learn when to use CSP for Azure as a Managed/Hosting Service Provider, and about various hybrid or BYOL licensing scenarios for Azure Stack.
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The May 2017 Microsoft Volume Licensing Newsletter is out. It has three main areas of focus: Power BI Premium, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. So, if you want to find out more about these topics or access useful resources, read and subscribe to this free newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2rdUxdM.
Changes to the Windows Server Azure Marketplace images means it’s easier to deploy a virtual machine when you want to use the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (AHUB). Now you don’t have to choose a special image, you just confirm you have Windows Server licences with active SA as part of the process – see the diagram below. And, even better, this is available for all customers, not just EA customers.
The AHUB Datasheet and FAQ documents are updated for this change and you can find them in the Core Infrastructure section of our Licensing Guides emporium: http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.