Tag Archives: Microsoft 365

License Mobility Customer Verification Guide

We’ve uncovered a new License Mobility Customer Verification Guide! Microsoft have updated the guide in March 2026 even though the publication date matches the last one from May 2025. The main changes are condensed instructions for “Where to find the License Verification Form” and a clean-up of references to the VLSC portal in favour of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. The removal of the instructions has led to a broken reference to step 5 on page 5, and many of the existing Cautionary Notes remain.

Subscribers can find all these details in our Licensing Guides Gallery. Although License Mobility has been somewhat sidelined by the newest kid on the block, the Flexible Virtualisation Benefit, it’s always nice to have the latest guide available.

Find it here: https://bit.ly/4rbl7yQ, or in our Licensing Guides Gallery here: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.

Microsoft 365 E7

After much speculation, Microsoft 365 E7, also known as The Frontier Worker Suite, is official, with a GA date of 1 May 2026. It builds on Microsoft 365 E5 by adding Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365, and the Entra Suite. With a standard monthly price of $99, three promotions are planned in May to coincide with the launch, offering discounts of between 10% and 20%. In line with the other Microsoft 365 licences, E7 will be available both with and without Teams.

Complementing the announcement, we’re provided with a raft of resources. The Microsoft 365 E7 Launch Kit is particularly useful, containing a Partner FAQ that’s well worth a read.

You can download this here: https://bit.ly/3MZo6g2 and find the launch announcements here: https://bit.ly/4s8ln39 and here: https://bit.ly/40Z1aAE.

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

The March 2026 Modern Work Plan Comparison documents have been refreshed, with the exception of the Education flavour, which remains unchanged since December 2025. The first change is the renaming of Exchange Online Protection to “Built-in security Add-on for cloud mailboxes”. It’s a rather confusing name that inaccurately describes it and inconsistently appears under two other guises on the Microsoft websites and price lists.

There’s some updated housekeeping on retention policies, with the Purview Suites updated to correctly show their inclusion, mirroring recently updated Learn documentation. The latest PDFs for Enterprise, SMB, US Government, and Education sectors can be accessed in our searchable Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.

Click the “Microsoft 365” filter to view the documents and full details of What’s New and any Cautionary Notes – a feature exclusive to our subscribers. Non-subscribers can find them here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. Partners looking for the Excel version can email info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address, and we’ll send it right over.

Microsoft 365 pricing and packaging changes

With the upcoming changes to Microsoft 365 pricing and features in July 2026, information and announcements have been scattered across blogs, PDFs, and website articles – which has certainly kept us on our toes! A new, more consolidated page has arrived, and it’s worth a view: https://bit.ly/3MEpnJe. This onslaught of changes inspired us to make understanding price adjustments much more intuitive. We’ve evolved our pricing pages in LicenseVerse, with interactive search and filter options to find exactly what you’re interested in. Why not give our Product Price Plotter a try today to discover how easy tracking these changes will be from now on? Subscribers can find it here: https://bit.ly/ProductPricePlotter. The Exchange Rate Price Plotter serves as its companion, helping you track exchange rate fluctuations: https://bit.ly/ExchangeRatePlotter.

If you’re not a subscriber and feel that this kind of resource would help your licensing life, please do get in touch: info@licensingschool.co.uk.

Microsoft 365 Enterprise Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (February 2026) Microsoft 365 Enterprise Licensing Guide. Although it’s designed to help you to see the difference between the Microsoft 365 plans, the chosen features listed are strange: Clipchamp and Loop are front and centre, with no mention at all of Power BI Pro and Teams Phone Standard… It’s a document that was useful when traditional, on-premises EA customers were first moving to Microsoft 365, and all the scenarios target this sort of customer. This version of the Licensing Guide sees the removal of the useful detail in the Extended Use Rights section, as well as the not-quite-so-useful, outdated FAQs.

Hard-core Licensing Guide enthusiasts can keep their Licensing Guide collection complete by grabbing the updated document here: https://bit.ly/4tg2eNo.

Windows 11 Virtual Desktops Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (February 2026) Windows 11 for Virtual Desktops Licensing Guide. This document has a number of tables showing which licences give rights to different virtualisation solutions and a row’s been added throughout for the Microsoft 365 E3/A5 Student Use Benefit. There’s also been a bit of useful reordering in the tables grouping similar licences together. Finally, there’s text added to confirm that VDA E3/E5 licensed users can access Windows 11 VMs running on the dedicated servers of Listed Providers.

Grab this guide here: https://bit.ly/4rMxPFc.

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

The February 2026 Modern Work Plan Comparison documents have been refreshed, with the exception of the Education flavour, which hasn’t had an update since December 2025. In the Enterprise document, Teams now accurately reflects being available in the regular Office 365 plans, and the Microsoft Defender Experts Suite has been added. For the first time, Microsoft 365 Business Premium (maximum 500 users!) appears in the lineup of the GCC High plans. Otherwise, minor corrections, formatting, and wording changes are sprinkled throughout. The latest PDFs for Enterprise, SMB, US Government, and Education sectors can be accessed in our searchable Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery, exclusive to our subscribers. Non subscribers can find them in the usual place here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2.

If you’re a partner looking for the Excel version, please email info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address and we’ll send it over.

Microsoft 365 training

We’re kicking off the year with Microsoft 365 month at Licensing School. This January, we’re hosting two sessions covering fundamental and advanced licensing, everything from the Apps and Online Services to security and compliance, and more! To help navigate the minefield of choosing the right offering, we’ll share expert tips and introduce our new Plan Picker tool. Subscribers can register here: https://bit.ly/LS_Training.

If you’re not a subscriber and would benefit from this kind of training course, discuss your options by contacting info@licensingschool.co.uk.

Modern Work Plan Comparison

The December 2025 Modern Work Plan Comparison documents are now available. Key updates include the addition of Security Compute Units to Microsoft 365 E5 (see our blog post: https://bit.ly/4oUwHgS), the availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business as an Add-on to SMB licences, and a correction regarding Office 365 A1 being a valid prerequisite for the Defender Suite and Purview Suite. Separate PDFs for enterprise, SMB, US government, and education sectors can be accessed in our new, searchable Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery, exclusive to our subscribers. Non-subscribers can find them in the usual place here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2.

If you’re a partner looking for the Excel version, please email info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address and we’ll send it over.

Office 365 and Microsoft 365 features and pricing update

Microsoft announce new features and price adjustments for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, scheduled for 2026.

The updates include incorporating Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 in the E3 licences, integrating more Intune features into Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, and adding 50 GB of mailbox storage to the Microsoft 365 Business plans. These enhancements come with a price increase ranging from 5% to 33% and will impact commercial and not-for-profit customers starting July 1, 2026. US government customers will see similar increases applied (where necessary) in two separate stages.

Details of the new features and price changes can be found here: https://bit.ly/3Mre86j, alongside the government-specific material here: https://bit.ly/4pqBqYy.