Upcoming retirement of Power BI Premium capacity

Microsoft announce that Power BI Premium capacity SKUs (the P-SKUs) will be retired in favour of Fabric capacity. New customers will not be able to purchase the P-SKUs after 1 July, 2024, but existing non-EA customers can renew their existing subscriptions until 1 January, 2025 and then (if required) purchase more capacity until the end of the subscription term, and EA customers can, of course, purchase/renew until the end of the EA term. There are no changes to either Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium Per User licensing.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3vLtBq4.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (August 2022) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. The changes in this new version are minor, with the most significant being the increase of Dataverse capacity entitlements for Operations-Activity and Operations-Device licences. Page 42 is updated to show that each Operations-Activity licence now accrues an additional 64 MB of Dataverse Database capacity and 512 MB of Dataverse File capacity, while each Operations-Device licence accrues 102 MB of Dataverse Database capacity and 819 MB of Dataverse File capacity.

You can  find details of further minor changes in the Change Log on page 60, and the updated document itself here: https://bit.ly/3SkWnnz.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (July 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with 3 changes of note.

Firstly, Fraud Protection transactions can now be paid for on a consumption basis against an Azure Subscription – find the details on our blog here: https://bit.ly/3i5WCTw.

Secondly, there are some changes to Business Central capacity – find the details on our blog here: https://bit.ly/3i68DbO.

And finally, there’s some clarification added to the definition of the Average Order Value specifying that it’s the Gross Merchandise Value (total value of all transactions processed through Dynamics 365) divided by the total transaction volume.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3qIoik1.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (April 2021) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide which has undergone an editorial review so there are some layout and language changes. It’s also updated for the new way that Tiers and overage capacity work in the Commerce solution, and for the new Cloud Scale Units available for Supply Chain Management.

Find this updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/2ReqUsj.