Tag Archives: Licensing Guide

Windows Server virtualization licensing guidance document

There’s an updated (May 2025) Windows Server virtualization licensing document from Microsoft. There aren’t major changes from the previous version – the most significant one is the removal of all the (quite useful) diagrams. In addition, the original errors remain – the requirement for a customer to have a minimum of 16 Windows Server Core licences when licensing by virtual machine was removed in April 2023.

However, keep your Microsoft documentation stash complete by grabbing this document here: https://bit.ly/44doWLJ.

Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

There’s a brand new (June 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide from Microsoft. All the Copilot Studio information has been taken out of the Power Platform Licensing Guide and put into this new guide with additional sections giving detail on Orchestration Mode, Agent Flow Actions, Copilot Studio Agents in Paid Public Preview, and how to forecast your Agent’s message volume.

Find this new guide here: https://bit.ly/43Sg5xG.

Microsoft 365 Enterprise licensing guidance document

There’s an updated (May 2025) Microsoft 365 Enterprise licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There aren’t major changes to the content – and that’s a shame. When it was last updated in February 2024, we highlighted the fact that there were too many errors and chunks of out-of-date information. As time has gone on, the information is even more out-of-date and, yes, there are more errors.

For those of us who nevertheless like a complete set of Microsoft’s documentation, find this guide here: https://bit.ly/4kFhwGG.

Downgrade Rights licensing guidance

There’s an updated (April 2025) Downgrade Rights licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There aren’t major changes, it’s really just updated for the latest product versions – SharePoint Server 2019 is changed to Subscription Edition, for example.

Find this updated document here: https://bit.ly/4m2CQr4.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (May 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. The major changes are the addition of a whole host of security roles for the ERP products, and clarification as to when administrators need to be licensed. Text on page 3 confirms that users with the Power Platform Administrator or Dynamics 365 Administrator role in Entra don’t require a licence, and the System Administrator role in Dataverse and Finance and Operations doesn’t require a licence to configure and administer Dynamics 365 applications.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/44lAhtU.

Flexible Virtualization Benefit licensing guidance

There’s an updated (May 2025) Flexible Virtualization Benefit licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There aren’t huge wording changes from the previous (November 2022) version – just some rewording here and there, but all diagrams and the resources section have been removed.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4jGr4ko.

Core CAL and Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance

There’s an updated (March 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There are minimal changes from the February 2025 version and note that a couple of errors still remain in the table on page 3.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4iquFTa.

Software reimaging rights licensing guidance

There’s an updated (February 2025) software reimaging rights licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There aren’t major changes – just a few version updates and references to VLSC changed to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

Grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4bXLXVe.

Base and Additive CALs licensing guidance

There’s a new (February 2025) Base and Additive CALs licensing guidance document from Microsoft which is an evolution of the October 2020 Microsoft Server Base and Additive CALS Overview Licensing Brief document. It’s broadly the same information covered, but all the diagrams showing the layered structure of Base and Additive CALs are removed to be replaced with more comprehensive explanations and links to the Product Terms.

Find this new document here: https://bit.ly/4b5Lzn3.