Changes to Power Apps licensing

Microsoft make a small change to Power Apps licensing – the Power Apps per User licence is renamed the Power Apps Premium licence. There are no other changes – it’s still a user licence costing $20 per user per month, and allows the licensed user to access an unlimited number of apps and Power Pages websites. It continues to include Dataverse capacity and AI Builder service credits – find the detail here: https://bit.ly/BOKPApPricing.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (May 2023) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of minor changes. Firstly, for Business Central, the maximum number of companies that may be contained in an environment is now limited to 300, and secondly, the Voice Channel User SL is added to the Default Subscription Capacity table on page 39, showing that each licence accrues 35 GB of Dataverse File capacity.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3B8v3St.

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.

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.

Multiplexing Volume Licensing Brief

There’s an updated (March 2021) Multiplexing Volume Licensing Brief from Microsoft which is updated for the renaming of the Common Data Service to Dataverse.

This is a useful document if you want to learn more about how multiplexing may impact the licensing needs of customers, and there’s a wide range of products covered with plenty of examples and scenarios.

Find this updated Volume Licensing Brief here: https://bit.ly/3a2KoGI.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (December 2020) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.

The main changes are the renaming of the Common Data Service to Dataverse, and the addition of 2,000 Customer Voice responses to the entitlements for Customer Insights.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3lu8InS.

Common Data Service is now Dataverse

Microsoft announce that the Common Data Service (where you securely store and manage data that’s used by the Dynamics products, for example) has been rebranded as Microsoft Dataverse.

At the same time, Dataverse for Teams (formerly known as Project Oakdale) is also generally available. This is a subset of Dataverse capabilities included as a built-in data platform for Teams that, along with tools such as the new Power Apps app for Teams, enables customers to build low-code apps, automate processes, and deploy chatbots without leaving Teams.

Find the Dataverse announcement here: https://bit.ly/399Xv9x, and an overview of what you can now do in Teams here: https://bit.ly/35RmPPy.