Tag Archives: Enterprise Agreement

Power Apps Per App User SL returns to CSP

Microsoft announce a clarification to the January discontinuation of the Power Apps Per App User SL. The original announcement confirmed its End of Sale date as 2 January, 2026 – see our blog post here: https://bit.ly/4t4CwdV. This applied to all agreements and Microsoft swiftly removed it from the Licensing Guide and price lists. This update confirms that the change, in fact, does NOT affect CSP, and that it will return to price lists with full availability for new and renewing customers from early April. The Enterprise Agreement and MPSA End of Sale information still stands.

Find the original (updated!) article here: https://bit.ly/4b2TB2m, and the reintroduction announcement here: https://bit.ly/4szsK3N.

New program Licensing Guides

We have been on the lookout for Licensing Guides again and discovered a few program-related resources, including some Licensing Guides that haven’t been refreshed in many years!

You’ll find new uploads for the Enterprise Agreement, Server and Cloud Enrollment, SPLA, and Select Plus in the Licensing Guides section of our website: https://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.

Changes to price levels for Online Services

Microsoft announce that they will remove the programmatic discount price levels for Online Services in the EA and MPSA from 1 November, 2025. Existing customers will be affected by this change at their next agreement renewal or when they purchase new Online Services not on their Customer Price Sheet after 1 November. There’s no change to the price levels for on-premises software and the price lists for US Government and education customers aren’t affected.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/45Ivy5J.

CAL Suite Bridges licensing guidance

There’s an updated (January 2025) CAL Suite Bridges licensing guidance document from Microsoft. Bridge CALs were first introduced in 2011 to help Enterprise Agreement customers maintain their enterprise-wide commitment to the Core and Enterprise CAL Suites as they moved to the cloud. This document has an overview, some scenarios, as well as tables taken from the Product Terms for CAL/CML equivalencies and prerequisites.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/3Ql8std.

GitHub usage-based billing

Microsoft announce that from August 1, 2024 GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Advanced Security are available to be billed through an Azure Subscription for CSP and MCA-E customers. Billing is on a usage basis – if a user starts consuming a licence seat during a month, then customers pay on a prorated basis for that month with no commitment for future months. EA customers who have been able to purchase regular User SLs for these services can continue to do so if they want to.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4fWzKlm.

End of Azure support plan offer

Customers buying their Azure services through an Enterprise Agreement or via the MCA-E have long been eligible for free Azure Standard Support, but Microsoft announce that this offer is coming to an end on 30 June, 2024. After that time, customers will need to purchase one of the paid-for support plans.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4cASdBh (search for “Azure support”), and details of the available support plans here: https://bit.ly/44i3x1h.

Azure Standard Support offer extended

Customers buying their Azure services through an Enterprise Agreement or via the MCA-E have long been eligible for free Azure Standard Support, and Microsoft confirm that this offer will be extended to June 30, 2024, with both new and renewing customers eligible for support for a period of 6 months.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3u1mUPN, terms of the offer here: https://bit.ly/3CTFrhq, and a useful comparison of all the Azure Support plans here: https://bit.ly/44i3x1h.

Azure Standard Support plan offer extended

Customers buying their Azure services through an Enterprise Agreement or via the MCA-E have long been eligible for a free 12-month Azure Standard Support plan, and Microsoft confirm that this offer will be extended from 1 July, 2023 to 31 December, 2023.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3JA2cuD, terms of the offer here: https://bit.ly/3CTFrhq, and a useful comparison of all the Azure Support plans here: https://bit.ly/44i3x1h.

Calculate EA Azure Savings Plan cost savings

There’s a useful article here to help EA customers to manually calculate the savings they’ve made from the purchase of Azure Savings Plans: https://bit.ly/3MCBmUU. Full instructions are given to download the amortised usage and charges file, prepare an Excel spreadsheet and then do some calculations to determine the savings.

Calculating EA Reservations cost savings

If you’re an EA customer and you want to calculate the cost savings on your Reservations, then there’s a tutorial you might find useful that takes you through the required steps here: https://bit.ly/3EK8Ht9.