There’s an updated (September 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. The main change is the renaming of “messages” to “Copilot Credits”, but there’s also some futureproofing done where specific LLM names are removed. These are replaced with the more generic “Basic”, “Standard” and “Premium” groupings – for instance in the AI Builder capability table on page 13.
Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JIOWXx.
Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Power Platform Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Power Platform products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.
Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4neUXKz, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4niroI7.
Microsoft announce that they will delay the price increase for Dynamics 365 Business Central from 1 October, 2025 to 1 November, 2025.
Find the announcement with details of the price increases and the change of date here: https://bit.ly/4mgvVJK.
If you’ve always wondered if there was a difference between Azure Reservations and Capacity Reservations, then there’s a jolly useful article which explains the difference and why you might want to use both.
Find it here: https://bit.ly/48azNZg.
Microsoft announce a number of changes to Copilot licensing.
Firstly, there’s more usage of AI tools included in a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, and consumption is now measured in Copilot Credits, rather than messages.
Secondly, there’s a spot of renaming for the Copilot Studio experiences: Agent Builder, when you’re using Copilot Studio as a Microsoft 365 Copilot user, is now called Copilot Studio Lite, with the full experience being (helpfully) called Copilot Studio Full.
And there are changes to the Role Based Copilots too – from 10 October, 2025 if you’ve got a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence you won’t need to pay extra for Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, or Copilot for Finance (aka Finance Agents) – they’ll just be available to install from the Agent Store.
Grab the datasheet with this information here: https://bit.ly/46597I7.
There’s an updated (July 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There aren’t major changes – a table added on page 3 of the document gives a summary of purchasing options, and a few errors are corrected in the Power Automate summary table on page 16.
Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this July 2025 guide here: https://bit.ly/4knUaEY.
There’s a new (June 2025) Azure AI Foundry Pricing Guide from Microsoft. Azure AI Foundry is a platform for developers and IT administrators to build and manage AI applications and agents and there are a LOT of moving parts. This 20-page guide does a useful job of explaining the different licensing models going through, for example, Pay-As-You-Go options, Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) and Azure AI Foundry Reservations.
Find this guide here: https://bit.ly/4lYpQlq.
Microsoft announce the availability of the Security Copilot capacity calculator to help organisations estimate their SCU capacity needs.
You can find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3Izx4hr, and try out the calculator here: https://bit.ly/3IuSts6.
Microsoft announce that there WILL be a limited Extended Security Updates program for Exchange 2016/2019 and Skype for Business Server 2015/2019, all of which come to end of support on 14 October, 2025. It will be a mini program – lasting just 6 months – and customers are told to reach out to their Microsoft account teams after 1 August, 2025 for details on the per server cost and how to purchase and receive the ESUs.
Find the Exchange Server announcement here: https://bit.ly/3Ue9Y2b, and the one for Skype for Business Server here: https://bit.ly/4lXCgdg.
There’s an updated (February 2021) Microsoft Open programs overview document.
Just four pages long, it’s a summary of all of the key points of the Open License, Open Value and Open Value Subscription programs, and is updated for the discontinuation of the Open License program in December 2021, and the availability of Open Value offers for education and nonprofit customers in July 2021.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/3kWBheV