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Citrix License Server update required

Effective March 31, 2023, Citrix changes its licensing policy and customers are required to update to the latest version of the Citrix License Server and continue regular updates of license server software within six months of new license server releases. Deploying the new license server is straightforward and designed to

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Red Hat Enterprise Linux available

Effective January 31, 2023, Oracle announced a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The strategic collaboration starts with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI as a supported operating system, improving the experience for organizations that rely on

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Microsoft Power Automate hosted RPA scenarios available

Effective January 1, 2023, Microsoft Power Automate supports two hosted Robotic Process Automation (RPA) scenarios to enable organizations to set up and scale automation. Users can run RPA desktop flows either with human interaction (attended) or without (unattended). The new options offer individual hosted machines for attended or unattended RPA aimed

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Microsoft Power Platform Managed Environments available

Effective January 1, 2023, Managed Environments are available for Microsoft Power Platform. Managed Environments is a suite of capabilities that allows admins to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more insights. Admins can use Managed Environments with any type of environment except the developer environments.

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Microsoft Indirect Enterprise Agreement Cost Management available

Effective January 24, 2023, Microsoft Indirect Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers can manage their billing account directly in the Azure Management Portal, and effective February 20, 2023, comparable features are no longer available in the Azure Enterprise Portal. For the announcement article with links to useful documentation and how-to videos, please

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Microsoft Teams Premium available

Effective February 1, 2023, Microsoft Teams Premium is available. Microsoft Teams Premium is a new offering that builds on the current Microsoft Teams experience with additional features that help make Teams meetings even more personalized, intelligent, and protected. It also enables premium capabilities for additional meeting scenarios, including Virtual Appointments

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Microsoft Exchange Online concurrent license assignments

Microsoft enabled support for concurrent Microsoft Exchange Online license assignments as a new feature in Office 365, which allows tenant admins to assign more than one Exchange Online license per Azure Active Directory (AAD) user. For more information on this feature, please visit: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/introducing-support-for-concurrent-exchange-online-license/ba-p/3721098. For useful software licensing information on

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Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription licensing change

Effective January 23, 2023, Oracle implemented a major change to its Java licensing model. What are the changes of the Oracle Java licensing? Oracle removed the following Java License metrics from its Java price list: Oracle has removed named user plus licensing model. Oracle has removed processor license model. How

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Oracle Linux licensing change

Oracle updated the licensing model for Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux parts will have a single pricing metric of Physical CPU pair, eliminating the concept of Limited/Unlimited subscriptions and the need to count/track physical servers (“systems”). A customer will instead buy a subscription for Support for each CPU pair that will

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