Tag Archives: Microsoft

Teams or no Teams?

Microsoft announce that the inclusion of Teams will once more be an option for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suite customers. From 1 November, 2025 Office 365 E1/E3/E5 and Microsoft 365 E3/E5 will be available both with and without Teams, alongside the Frontline Worker and Business suites which continue to be available with or without Teams.

Find the details in the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/3WccCXc, along with information about other changes made in response to European competition concerns.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide with just a minor change for the renaming of Copilot messages to Copilot Credits.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JGHyfv.

Dynamics 365 licensing resources

Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Dynamics 365 Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Dynamics 365 products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.

Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4pNh1xk, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/3UUQ7pp.

Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. The main change is the renaming of “messages” to “Copilot Credits”, but there’s also some futureproofing done where specific LLM names are removed. These are replaced with the more generic “Basic”, “Standard” and “Premium” groupings – for instance in the AI Builder capability table on page 13.

Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JIOWXx.

Power Platform licensing resources

Microsoft have made their monthly-updated Power Platform Licensing Deck publicly available. There are a couple of slides on each of the Power Platform products making it a nice summary of the licensing, and a companion to the more detailed Licensing Guide.

Find the September deck here: https://bit.ly/4neUXKz, and grab the September Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4niroI7.

Date change for Business Central price increases

Microsoft announce that they will delay the price increase for Dynamics 365 Business Central from 1 October, 2025 to 1 November, 2025.

Find the announcement with details of the price increases and the change of date here: https://bit.ly/4mgvVJK.

Reservations or Reservations?

If you’ve always wondered if there was a difference between Azure Reservations and Capacity Reservations, then there’s a jolly useful article which explains the difference and why you might want to use both.

Find it here: https://bit.ly/48azNZg.

Changes to Copilot licensing

Microsoft announce a number of changes to Copilot licensing.

Firstly, there’s more usage of AI tools included in a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, and consumption is now measured in Copilot Credits, rather than messages.

Secondly, there’s a spot of renaming for the Copilot Studio experiences: Agent Builder, when you’re using Copilot Studio as a Microsoft 365 Copilot user, is now called Copilot Studio Lite, with the full experience being (helpfully) called Copilot Studio Full.

And there are changes to the Role Based Copilots too – from 10 October, 2025 if you’ve got a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence you won’t need to pay extra for Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, or Copilot for Finance (aka Finance Agents) – they’ll just be available to install from the Agent Store.

Grab the datasheet with this information here: https://bit.ly/46597I7.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (July 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide. There aren’t major changes – a table added on page 3 of the document gives a summary of purchasing options, and a few errors are corrected in the Power Automate summary table on page 16.

Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this July 2025 guide here: https://bit.ly/4knUaEY.

Azure AI Foundry Pricing Guide

There’s a new (June 2025) Azure AI Foundry Pricing Guide from Microsoft. Azure AI Foundry is a platform for developers and IT administrators to build and manage AI applications and agents and there are a LOT of moving parts. This 20-page guide does a useful job of explaining the different licensing models going through, for example, Pay-As-You-Go options, Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) and Azure AI Foundry Reservations.

Find this guide here: https://bit.ly/4lYpQlq.