Tag Archives: Microsoft 365

OneDrive Extra Storage

Microsoft have introduced some new Extra Storage capacity packs for OneDrive. These new Add-on licences allow you to increase a user’s OneDrive storage up to 25 TB, with available pack sizes of 100 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB through to 6 TB in 1 TB increments.

You can buy any combination of these to reach your desired amount of storage, and you can reassign them from one user to another if needed. It’s all change for OneDrive this month, as the standalone plan has now retired, alongside its SharePoint sibling – read more on that in our blog here: https://bit.ly/4x4KarF. You can still access both services as part of an eligible Office 365 or Microsoft 365 plan.

Although the Extra Storage capacity packs aren’t (yet?) in the Product Terms, you can find the details in the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4o2LQh2.

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

There are updated (May 2026) Modern Work Plan Comparison documents for SMB, Enterprise, US Government, and Education customers.

It’s no surprise that most of the changes are to do with Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 after their May 1, 2026 launch. In the Enterprise documents there are new sections added for Agent Observability, Agent Governance, and Agent Security making it easy to see which features are included in a Microsoft cloud subscription and which need Agent 365/Microsoft 365 E7 licenses. The SMB document has similar, but cut-down, sections added.

Don’t forget that we help you navigate the (seemingly increasing) errors in these documents every month with our Cautionary Notes. You’ll find these using the one-click “Microsoft 365” filter in our subscriber-exclusive Licensing Guides Gallery, along with quick access to the documents and full change details: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.

Non-subscribers can find the documents here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. If you’re a partner and prefer the Excel version, contact us from your work email address and we’ll send it right over: info@licensingschool.co.uk.

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

The latest (April 2026) Modern Work Plan Comparison documents are now available!

The Education flavour gets its first refresh in months, aligning it with various recent updates. The April 2026 changes to Teams Shared Space, Meetings, and Events are featured throughout them all – see our blog for a recap on what’s happened: https://bit.ly/4aV8Jy8.

The one-click “Microsoft 365” filter in our Licensing Guides Gallery gives subscribers quick access to the documents, full change details, and potential stumbling blocks with our Cautionary Notes: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. Non-subscribers can find the documents here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. If you’re a partner and prefer the Excel version, contact us from your work email address and we’ll send it right over: info@licensingschool.co.uk.

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.