Microsoft announce that the free Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Office 365 E1 licences will be discontinued for non-profit customers from 1 July, 2025. There’s a blog article here: https://bit.ly/4mrgyPY to help customers move to Microsoft 365 Business Basic, where the grant of 300 free licences remains, and there’s a partner FAQ here: https://bit.ly/4mqobpC.
Tag Archives: July 2025
Hotpatching for Windows Server
Microsoft announce that hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 will be generally available as a subscription service on 1 July, 2025, costing $1.50 per CPU core per month. This new way of installing updates that doesn’t require a reboot after installation has been available for the Azure Edition of Windows Server Datacenter, but is now available to servers running outside of Azure, as long as they’re connected to Azure Arc.
Find the (excellent) announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4k0GGPJ.
Updated pricing for server products and suites
Microsoft announce that when Exchange Server SE and Skype for Business Server SE become available in July 2025 there will be some price increases. These two products, along with SharePoint Server SE will increase by 10%, and the Core CAL Suite and Enterprise CAL Suite will increase by 15% and 20% respectively.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3RwWtJU.