Effective November 1, 2022, Microsoft Operator Connect Mobile for Microsoft Teams has been renamed Microsoft 365 Teams Phone Mobile. Teams Phone Mobile is another option for providing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) connectivity with Microsoft Teams and Phone System. With Teams Phone Mobile, a
Effective December 1, 2022, Microsoft Azure DevOps Server 2022 is available. Azure DevOps supports collaborative features and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software. You can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using
Effective November 1, 2022, Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) is available. This add-on is designed to give regulated commercial and public sector customers of Microsoft 365 additional assurances that help in their compliance with data residency laws, regulations, and industry standards. With ADR,
Effective November 1, 2022, Cross-Tenant User Data Migration for Microsoft Exchange Online and OneDrive is available for Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS) customers. It supports complex organizations with tenant-to-tenant migration requirements. Admins can move Exchange Online and OneDrive user data between
Effective November 1, 2022, Microsoft Entra Workload Identities is available. Microsoft Entra Workload Identities helps you to secure identities for apps and services and their access to cloud resources by: enhancing security with conditional access containing threats and reducing risk showing new and unused
Effective January 3, 2023, Trend Micro increases its prices for software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and services by 5%. Prices for hardware solutions will increase by 10%. These changes are due to the high global inflation rates of recent years. You may consider using this opportunity
Effective November 1, 2022, Microsoft Defender for Business for servers is generally available, and can be purchased via SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT as your Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Microsoft Defender for Business for servers provides a single endpoint security experience for both clients and servers
Effective November 8, 2022, Microsoft Virtual Machine Software Reservations are available. These are the newest members of Microsoft’s reservations family. Microsoft Virtual Machine Software Reservations enable customers to take advantage of discounts by making a duration-based commitment (one or three years) when buying third-party
Effective November 2, 2022, USU Software Asset Management (SAM) is verified for Data Discovery of Oracle Java. Hence, Oracle will accept data from the USU solution instead of deploying Oracle measurement tools in case of the preparation for an audit. Besides Oracle Java SE
Midterm upgrades for Microsoft 365 subscriptions Microsoft has introduced new options that allow you to upgrade eligible 1-year subscriptions to 3-year term midterm or at renewal in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. This change applies to Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft Teams Enterprise, Microsoft 365 E5 Security
On July 1, 2025, Microsoft announced that there will be no price adjustments in September 2025 for its Commercial Cloud services and on-premises software due to currency fluctuations. This decision comes after Microsoft’s latest semi-annual foreign exchange review, which found no significant currency shifts to justify a pricing update. Any
With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot, consumption of specific agentic requests is billed via Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG). This licensing guide explains how this model works, how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat differs from Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing, how to set it up, and what it means for your organization.