Teams Rooms devices must be licensed with device licences rather than user licences from 1 July, 2023 (see our blog: https://bit.ly/3rdKRkS). However, there’s now a grace period delaying technical enforcement until 30 September, 2023 to give customers more time to get compliant.
Find details of this and other useful information in an FAQ here: https://bit.ly/43ft7mu.
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.
Microsoft make some changes to the way that Business Central Database capacity is assigned, accrued, and acquired from July 2021. Historically, the first Business Central Essentials or Premium license enabled 80 GB of Business Central Database storage for the tenant, and this remains unchanged, but now individual licences accrue additional capacity: 3 GB for Premium, 2 GB for Essentials, and 1 GB for the Device licence. Customers could buy Capacity Add-on in increments of 1 GB, and may continue to do that, but there’s a new 100 GB Add-on with its own special Overage Add-on which offers advantageous pricing for further 1 GB increases.
Find the relevant Microsoft docs page here: https://bit.ly/2Ty9t7w.
Microsoft release some customer purchasing guidance, comparing CSP, the EA, Web Direct, and buying via the Microsoft Customer Agreement direct from Microsoft.
You can read the article here: https://bit.ly/3igCnRR, and/or get a standalone summary guide here: https://bit.ly/3xKVcmF.