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How does the licensing of Windows Server Containers work?
Organizations might choose to deploy apps in containers rather than virtual machines so let’s take a look at the licensing of Windows Server Containers, and Microsoft define two types of containers in the Product Terms. Firstly, there’s a Windows Server Container with Hyper-V isolation which, from a licensing perspective, is considered to be a virtual operating system environment and thus follows the licensing rules for virtual machines which are covered in the previous section. Then there’s a Windows Server Container without Hyper-V isolation which is a feature of the Windows Server software itself, and thus a customer may use as…
If Power Virtual Agents is licensed per tenant, why are there Power Virtual Agents per User licenses?
Licenses also need to be acquired for any users who will create and manage bots. These Power Virtual Agents per User licenses are $0 licenses but do need to be ordered and then assigned to bot creators through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Page 289, BOK21
What products are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit?
The Azure Hybrid Benefit applies to Windows Server and SQL Server and is essentially a way of being allowed to bring your own licenses to license the Windows or SQL Server software part of solutions in Azure. Page 343, BOK21
What SA benefits do Windows Server Subscriptions in CSP get?
There is no notion of Software Assurance in CSP and these Server Subscriptions don’t come with SA, but they DO come with entitlements to some of the benefits that we would normally refer to as Software Assurance benefits. In particular, they entitle customers to the Azure Hybrid Benefit, Disaster Recovery rights, and to use Semi-Annual Channel releases of Windows Server. In addition, if a new version of Windows Server is released during the term of the Server Subscription, then that may be deployed in the on-premises infrastructure if required. Equally (and this isn’t, I know, an SA benefit) customers may…
What are Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Device SLs?
Enterprise Agreement customers also have the option to acquire Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Device SLs. In this scenario, a license is assigned to the device that will be used by many users who are not individually licensed for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. These users do not even need an Azure Active Directory account, and anyone with access to the device is able to use the Microsoft 365 Apps on that device without any user-level activation taking place. Page 180, BOK21
What is an Azure Dev/Test Subscription? Are they available through CSP or Open Value?
An Azure Subscription is a container to which Azure resources are assigned as they are created. There are different Subscription types associated with the ways that a customer buys – an Azure Subscription for CSP is different to the one for an Enterprise Agreement, for example. All of these “regular” Subscription types are used for production workloads supporting the day-to-day business of an organization. However, there’s another type of Azure Subscription which is used for dev and test purposes. The benefit for organizations is that there are discounted rates on some of the Azure services when they are assigned to…
Do Dynamics 365 Commerce or Finance User SLs accrue Dataverse capacity?
The first Base license of one of the ERP apps that we’ve considered in this section (Commerce, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Project Operations and Human Resources), enables default Dataverse capacities across the whole tenant. In common with the CRM apps, these default capacities are: Dataverse Database capacity: 10 GBDataverse File capacity: 20 GBDataverse Log capacity: 2 GB However, unlike the CRM apps further capacity is not accrued for each license purchased. Customers requiring further Dataverse capacity must purchase Dataverse Database, File and Log Capacity Add-ons in increments of 1 GB. Page 247, BOK21