Microsoft update the 1 July, 2026 Product Terms to add the Microsoft 365 E3/A3/G3 – Unattended Licenses to the list of eligible products that allow you to run the Microsoft 365 Apps in Amazon WorkSpaces. Find the full page of rules here: https://bit.ly/4fdNFoK.
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Minor pricing precision updates for EEA currencies
Microsoft have announced pricing adjustments for certain Microsoft 365 and Office 365 SKUs across European Economic Area (EEA) currencies from 1 July 2026.
This minor price update is required for EU settlement compliance and affects CSP, MCA-E, and Web Direct customers purchasing in EUR, DKK, NOK, SEK, and CHF. You might see small tweaks to the prices of the Frontline, Business, and Enterprise licenses (including the flavours both with and without Teams). This adjustment is completely separate from the wider July 2026 Microsoft 365 and Office 365 price changes also taking effect in July, which you can read about in our blog post here: https://bit.ly/4eNcnL7.
Check out the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4uYZG5Z.
We help subscribers track all price changes with our Exchange Rate Price Plotter: https://bit.ly/ExchangeRatePlotter. Use our Product Price Plotter to jog your memory on the July product price changes: https://bit.ly/ProductPricePlotter.
Modern Work Plan Comparison documents
The Modern Work Plan Comparison documents are updated for June 2026.
Both the Enterprise and SMB flavours feature a handful of small adjustments this month. The change logs point out the addition of the Entra Suite, which reinforces its inclusion in Microsoft 365 E7. However, since it was already in the comparison matrix, this introduces duplication and some conflicting guidance on what you can add it to. The Government documents are untouched for June, and there’s no new release of the Education flavour.
Don’t forget that we help you navigate the (increasingly frequent) 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.
Microsoft 365 July feature updates
Microsoft begin an early rollout of some of the July Microsoft 365 changes.
The updates, initially announced last December, include enhanced Copilot Chat features, increased Exchange Online storage, and new Intune capabilities for specific licences. Additionally, Office 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E3 licenses will newly incorporate Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 capabilities, and this rollout has started ahead of schedule.
You can find more details in the original announcement here: https://bit.ly/4qExvb8, and the early-rollout update here: https://bit.ly/43HZCfS.
Free 30‑day trial for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
Microsoft announce a free 30-day trial for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business.
Available from July 2026, customers can access the trial from within Copilot Chat without needing to enter any payment information. As with the full license, you must have a valid Microsoft 365 Business license in place, and there’s a maximum of 300 users.
While a readily available trial could be a cause for compliance concerns, Microsoft provide an overview of the considerations and recommend that you have AI usage guidelines in place. To assist with this, admins, as usual, have the ability to disable trials for users within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
Find the blog announcement here: https://bit.ly/4uvlSo4, the Message Centre post here: https://bit.ly/4uzcdgt, and the prerequisites for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business here: https://bit.ly/4amhBMq.
Work IQ API is generally available
Microsoft have announced the general availability of Work IQ API from 16 June 2026.
Work IQ has been around for a while, providing the intelligence system that connects Microsoft 365 Copilot to an organisation’s internal Microsoft 365 data such as emails, chats, and documents that are exposed via Microsoft Graph. The news is the access to the Work IQ API external interface that lets developers build custom AI Agents outside the standard Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem, while providing those Agents access to the same insights you’d get with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Consumption-based charges apply based on app and Agent Work IQ API calls, and on grounding in Microsoft 365 data. A static charge per call applies, paired with a variable cost based on the complexity of the request. Microsoft have introduced a new Cost Management Dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center to help IT admins review and manage charges and spend. Work IQ API usage is paid for using Copilot Credits, and no separate licence or SKU is required. The usual purchasing options apply: Pay-As-You-Go, Copilot Credits Capacity Packs, Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan, or an Agent Pre-Purchase Plan.
Find the customer announcement here: https://bit.ly/44h1WL1, the partner announcement (with some useful resources) here: https://bit.ly/4vaBZsh, an article with pricing scenarios here: https://bit.ly/3QgQETR, and extra details in a partner-only FAQ here: https://bit.ly/4ebpnv7.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business in the Product Terms
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is added (at last!) to the June 2026 Product Terms.
This rather belated addition follows the 1 March, 2026 launch of the SMB flavour of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which, as you’d expect for a Business license, has a cap of 300 users. This June update gives us information about the availability (just CSP) and the licensing prerequisites – you can buy Microsoft 365 Copilot Business for users already licensed with Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium, Microsoft 365 Apps for Business, or Teams Essentials.
You can check out the Product Terms update here: https://bit.ly/4amhBMq.
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.