Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (October 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of changes. First of all, it’s updated for the new pricing that came into effect on 1 October, 2024 – see our blog for a reminder of this: https://bit.ly/3NnDI9q. And secondly, it’s amended for the rebranding of Copilot for Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot – see our blog for the Copilot Wave 2 update: https://bit.ly/3YjqgK6.

Grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/47XWBt3.

Self-service purchase feature to come for Copilot customers

Microsoft announce that Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium customers will be able to purchase Microsoft 365 Copilot through the self-service channel from the beginning of October 2024.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4e5oS34, and advice for administrators here: https://bit.ly/3XITTnM.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2

On 16 September, 2024 Microsoft made a whole raft of announcements regarding Copilot: you can watch the launch event here: https://bit.ly/4epu6qq, and/or find the written announcements here: https://bit.ly/3TLq2IZ, or read on for the summary.

First of all, there’s a new member of the wider Copilot family called Copilot Pages. It’s essentially a space where you can easily put content you get from Copilot and then collaborate on it with your colleagues. Find the detail on Copilot Pages here: https://bit.ly/3TyEAvr with a video of it in action. Next up, there’s another family member – Copilot Agents, which is designed to enable anyone to add new knowledge and skills to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find the detail on Copilot Agents here: https://bit.ly/4gq9vnA. Existing members of the family – like Copilot in Word or PowerPoint, for example – have been enhanced, and you can find detail about that here: https://bit.ly/3TLq2IZ.

And then there’s the rebranding… The old Copilot for Microsoft 365 becomes Microsoft 365 Copilot and that change ripples through to Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales, Service, and Finance.

If you’re a Licensing School subscriber you can watch our Did You See training session from 17 September, 2024 here: https://bit.ly/4gyS5W5, and if you’re a LicenseVerse subscriber you’ll be glad to know everything’s updated. We’ll have a little lie down now…

Copilot and friends: the summary

Here’s the licensing summary of the latest AI-ification that Microsoft is enabling in products.

First, Windows Copilot will be included in Windows 11 and available in preview this year – find out more about that here: https://bit.ly/45BkJzz.

Next, Bing Chat Enterprise is currently in preview and will be included in Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Microsoft 365 Business Standard/Premium licences. On release it’ll also be available as a standalone offering for $5 per user per month, and will be accessible from Windows Copilot. Microsoft 365 Copilot is also in preview and will be a $30 per user per month Add-on for Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Microsoft 365 Business Standard/Premium licensed users. Find out more about Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot here: https://bit.ly/457xWQC.

And finally, Sales Copilot includes the Viva Sales capabilities and is generally available both as a standalone licence and included for users licensed for Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise/Premium. Find out more about that here: https://bit.ly/3DWd0jL.