Effective August 1, 2020, Microsoft Advanced Communications for Microsoft Teams is available. This add-on to any paid Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription provides a new set of capabilities for large meetings up to 20,000 participants, communication policies, and integrations, in addition to advanced
Effective August 1, 2020, Microsoft expands use rights for the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit with SQL Server giving additional flexibility in using Microsoft SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Core licenses. This creates chances for cost reduction and enables access to a larger bandwidth of
Effective July 22, 2020, Microsoft Forms Pro now is called Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice offers a comprehensive means to capture, analyze, and act on customer feedback. There are no changes to the licensing and existing customers don’t need
As of June 22, 2020, a 5-year Reservation is available for the Microsoft Azure HBv2 virtual machine. The existing 1 and 3-year Reservations give an estimated 25% and 50% saving on the compute costs of the VM, and the new 5-year Reservation increases savings
Effective immediately, Veeam backup for Microsoft Azure is available. This new backup and recovery solution helps customers and service providers move more applications and data to Microsoft Azure and protect cloud applications and data in Microsoft Azure in a cost-effective, secure and easy way.
Effective April 1, 2020, Microsoft 365 Compliance conditions change. The former components Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Compliance and Microsoft Azure Information Protection Premium Plan 2 are being replaced by three new smaller suites: – Microsoft E5 eDiscovery and Audit – Microsoft E5 Information Protection
How to Use Microsoft Azure Prepayment (formerly “Azure Monetary Commitment”) for Your Cloud Services Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, such as computing, storage, networking, analytics, and more. You can use Azure to build, deploy, and manage
Effective April 2, 2020, VMware will be updating its per-CPU licensing model to align more closely to the industry standard of licensing software based on CPU cores as a main licensing metric. This means that VMware uses the per-CPU licensing model while requiring one
On March 2, 2020, VMware instituted some price increases for a limited set of offerings, including a number of VMware Professional Services offerings, such as VMware Technical Account Manager Services and Consulting Services. Beginning April 2, 2020 prices will increase on VMware vRealize Suite
Until September 30, 2025, there is a promotion, offering 15% off Microsoft 365 E3/E5 to eligible, new-to-Microsoft 365 E3/E5 customers in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) licensing program. This is interesting for organizations transitioning from e.g., Office 365 E3 or a Microsoft competitor. On June 24, 2025, this promotion was
Until September 30, 2025, Microsoft is providing a discount of 15 % for 10 to 2400 seat purchases of Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. On April 21, 2025, the license cap with increased from 300 to 2400 licenses. On June 24, 2025, this promo has
Effective June 2025, Microsoft has introduced Azure Communication Services (ACS), a powerful solution for sending large volumes of communications, like emails. This is especially relevant for organizations facing limitations with traditional email platforms like Exchange Online. This article explains ACS and its licensing, compares it to Exchange Online, and answers