Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-on

Microsoft announce a business continuity service for Windows 365 to protect against regional outages. When activated, the service creates temporary copies of users’ Cloud PCs in alternative geographical regions, preserving installed applications, user settings, and data. The Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-On license costs $5 per user per month and is currently only available for Windows 365 Enterprise users.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3LJfyFB, and the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/46HK1hf.

Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents

There are updated (July 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with some small changes such as the addition of the Microsoft Entra Suite.

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/4crTOde), and one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/4cKyLlQ), and still more for specialist US customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/4eQCYq4), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/3VTxtho) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/3UrMlD7).

And, if you’re a partner, there’s exciting news – we’ve found the Excel version of these files! Drop us an email on info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address and we’ll send it on.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (July 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. There’s been some reworking of the initial sections, and the order of the products is now (more or less) alphabetical. There’s a newly-formatted Base and Attach licences table on page 4 which now includes prices, and the brand-new Customer Service Premium and Dynamics 365 Contact Center licences are added throughout.

See our blog for details of those new licences: https://bit.ly/4cNzi6m, and grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3L69PJA.

Retirement of Copilot GPT Builder

Microsoft announce that they will retire Copilot GPT Builder starting 10th July, 2024. This means that users licensed with a Copilot Pro licence will no longer be able to create their own custom Copilot GPTs. All Copilot GPTs created by Microsoft or by customers will also be removed at this time. Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4bXhrdg.