Microsoft add Windows 10 ESU Cloud Managed licenses to the April 2025 Product Terms. As a reminder, these are aimed at organisations who are managing updates using Intune or Windows Autopatch and will be offered at a 25% discount from the regular ESUs. If you want a refresher on Windows lifecycle management, then this Windows IT Pro video is worth a watch: https://bit.ly/4jIyXFC.
Tag Archives: April 2025
Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (April 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide. Microsoft introduced deep reasoning and Agent Flows in Copilot Studio in March 2025 (https://bit.ly/4jmTMH9) and the Licensing Guide is updated for those new innovations. When you implement these in your Agents you consume messages and now there’s a splendid table on page 19 which details the different types of activity and how many messages they consume. There’s also a reduction (from 30 to 10) in the number of messages required for answers grounded in the tenant graph.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4j4MMyq.
Licence management for Dynamics 365 ERP apps
Microsoft announce changes to the management of licences for the Dynamics 365 ERP apps. From 30 April, 2025 there will be enhanced licence reporting available in the Power Platform Admin Center which will show licence usage across all security roles. Then, from 30 August, 2025 you’ll need to make sure that users have been assigned licenses through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, or they will no longer have access to the Dynamics 365 ERP applications.
Find the announcement article here with tips on preparing for a smooth transition: https://bit.ly/446ehTx.
Exchange Online Tenant External Recipient Rate Limit (TERRL)
Microsoft introduce a new tenant-level outbound email limit based on the number of email licences that a tenant has. There’s a table showing sample limits with various licence counts, or you can work it out yourself using the provided formula – have you ever calculated anything to the power of 0.7? Now’s your chance!
Enforcement starts from 3 April, 2025 and you can find all the pertinent details with a useful FAQ in the lengthy announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4ijbhYm.
Windows 365 Link
Microsoft announce that Windows 365 Link is in public preview. This is a purpose-built Cloud PC device that’s designed to connect to Windows 365 in a fast and secure way. It’s built by Microsoft and will be available in April 2025 at a cost of $349. It will work with Windows 365 Enterprise, Frontline and Business editions.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4eMkS7u, the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/3APLhDg, and a Microsoft Mechanics video here: https://bit.ly/3CNH8jG.