Microsoft expand the list of prerequisites for Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service, adding in Microsoft 365 F1/F3, Microsoft 365 Business Basic, and Office 365 F3/E1.
Find the prerequisites listed in the Product Terms here: https://bit.ly/2OFt7vB.
LicenseVerse (with full history) updated: Copilot for Sales – https://bit.ly/4daRW8D and Copilot for Service – https://bit.ly/4drjM0n.
Microsoft announce that when Publisher 2021 reaches end of support on October 13, 2026, it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365, and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4cp7upa.
There are updated (May 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with some small changes such as the addition of the Entra ID Free plan. These useful documents tell you which (of the many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/3y7C5bS), and one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/3K5Oik5), and still more for specialist US customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/44HOqQh), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/4aak8q5) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/3UrMlD7). And, if you’re a partner, there’s exciting news – we’ve found the Excel version of these files! Drop us an email on info@licensingschool.co.uk from your work email address and we’ll send it on.
There’s a new (February 2024) Microsoft 365 Enterprise Licensing Guide which we’ve added to our amazing emporium of Licensing Guides (https://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides). It looks like this document has been updated for the changes to From SA licences from 1 February, 2024 (see our blog here: https://bit.ly/3IUJqxl) but really truly a poor job has been done with too many errors and chunks of out-of-date information.
For those who like a complete set of Microsoft’s documentation, find this guide here: https://bit.ly/499rSZf.
There are updated (March 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with the new components of the Intune Suite added (see our blog: https://bit.ly/3PBpkMz).
These useful documents tell you which (of the many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/49TclOh), and one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/496ATly), and still more for EEA customers – one for SMB (https://bit.ly/43uZqiY) and the final one for Enterprise (https://bit.ly/3vluC7T).
Microsoft announce that Microsoft Mesh is now generally available, allowing you to join a Teams meeting as an Avatar within a 3D space. Features are available to everyone licensed with a Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium, Microsoft 365 E3/E5 or Office 365 E1/E3/E5 licence, with the creation of customised 3D spaces requiring a Teams Premium licence. Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3u0k917.
There are updated (January 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents. These jolly useful documents tell you which (of the many) different components are included in which plan, and now there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/3U6iUIh), one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/3u0nn4H), one for Education customers (https://bit.ly/47TMmnS) and still more for EEA customers – one for SMB (https://bit.ly/3S8K0Mm) and the final one for Enterprise (https://bit.ly/428kLhw). Enjoy!
Late in August 2023, Microsoft announced that there would be changes to the offerings available in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to address European competition concerns – you can read that article here: https://bit.ly/3Pfx0Ty. These offerings are now live in the October 2023 Product Terms, so here’s the summary…
A customer in these regions who has not purchased Office 365 E1/E3/E5 or Microsoft 365 E3/E5 before 1 October, 2023 must now buy “EEA (no Teams)” SKUs – which, as the names suggest, don’t include Teams. If the customer does want Teams, then they need to purchase a separate Teams EEA User SL for their users. If they have purchased any of these licences before 1 October then they can add more licences and renew existing Subscriptions.
For Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium, customers in the affected regions will be able to choose the original offerings or new EEA flavours without Teams. The same goes for Microsoft 365 F1/F3 and Office 365 F3.
This site, aimed at partners, has information about pricing, and a useful FAQ document: https://bit.ly/3EDGHX4.
There are updated (September 2023) versions of the popular Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents. Find the SMB one here: https://bit.ly/3RkE5on, and the Enterprise one here: https://bit.ly/3LmAnHk.
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.