Tag Archives: June 2024

Skype for Business Server SE

Microsoft announce (June 2024) that the next release of Skype for Business Server will be a Subscription Edition (SE) which will be available early in the third quarter of 2025. From a licensing perspective it will follow the same rules as for SharePoint Server SE: you’ll need active SA to use the product – or buy the subscription licences – and if the SA lapses, then you retain rights to the 2019 version of the product.

Find the announcement article with migration path recommendations here: https://bit.ly/3WMVrvf.

Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 for Students

Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 for Students is added to the June 2024 Product Terms as an Add-on licence for users already licensed with Microsoft 365 Education A5. It’s also added to the ever-popular Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents.

Get the June 2024 Education version here: https://bit.ly/3x0qcUI.

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.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (June 2024) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There are some changes to a couple of items on the AI Builder rate card, and now Power Pages Capacity Licenses accrue Dataverse Log capacity: 1 GB for each Capacity License for authenticated users, and 250 MB for anonymous users. The table on page 23 is a useful summary of the Power Pages entitlements.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3Vqxhr5.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (June 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide, with a lot of small tidying-up type changes which are pretty well documented in the Change Log on page 63.

The biggest change is the definition of an external user on page 43 which now states that a contractor or agent typically won’t work onsite for the customer every working day, or for more than 30 hours on average per week.

Find the updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3R8lriY.

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.