Microsoft announce that Viva Goals will be retired on 31 December 2025 with no new feature development from 5 December 2024. Customers with existing licences may continue using Viva Goals until their licences expire or until 31 December 2025, whichever comes first.
You can find information about the retirement here: https://bit.ly/40ufuBL, including the reason for the retirement – there hasn’t been enough adoption to justify Microsoft’s further investment in the product.
There’s an updated (December 2024) Power Platform Licensing Guide with a couple of quite important changes. Firstly, it’s updated for the new Pay-As-You-Go option for Copilot Studio (see our blog: https://bit.ly/409uPYs) and secondly, the word “Agents” replaces “Copilot” as the thing that you create in Copilot Studio.
Find this updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/41a40nU.
There’s an updated (December 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of minor edits. Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/49lPbQY.
Copilot Studio is available on a Pay-As-You-Go basis from 1 December, 2024. That means that you can now choose to buy either the original Capacity Pack of 25,000 messages for $200 a month, or pay for messages that you use at a cost of $0.01 per message. As you might expect, messages are paid for via an Azure Subscription at the end of the month. If you want to, you can combine the two options, with the messages from the Capacity Packs being consumed first.
Find the Microsoft announcement here: https://bit.ly/4fgt7J1, and the pricing page here: https://bit.ly/4gvpLTs.
There are updated (December 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with just a small section added for Microsoft Places.
These useful documents tell you which of the (many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/3VkOJwM), one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/49AyVvX), and one for Education customers (https://bit.ly/3CWY3k8), and still more for specialist US customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/4ibbixP), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/3Ba7ITT) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/3VmCAY2). And, if you’re a partner, there’s exciting news – we’ve found the Excel version of these files again! Drop us an email on info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address and we’ll send it on.
And don’t forget our free Glossary to get quick definitions of things like Microsoft Places: https://bit.ly/LVGlossary.