Effective May 3, 2021, Microsoft 365 Calling Plans are available in additional countries, including Luxembourg. Microsoft Calling Plans allows Microsoft Teams users to call regular phones from within their Microsoft product. This allows both the use of Microsoft Phone System with Calling Plan to
Effective May 6, 2021, Microsoft leads Enterprise Email Security, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021 report suggests. As Email represents the primary target for cybercrime, companies increasingly search for efficient and cost-effective means to secure company data and maintain productivity within their
Effective March 15, 2021, Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Antivirus management and Universal Print capabilities. Microsoft Defender Antivirus provides your PCs with robust antimalware protection. The new Active Threats page of that antivirus management experience has been rolling out for the past few months
Effective June 9, 2021, Microsoft 365 Scheduler Per User is available. Scheduler enables users to delegate their scheduling tasks to a digital personal assistant – Cortana, including scheduling appointments and meetings with internal and external attendees. To use Scheduler, cc: Cortana in an email
Effective May 1, 2021, Microsoft 365 Career Coach is available for Microsoft Teams for Education. Career Coach is a Microsoft Teams app, powered by LinkedIn, that provides personalized guidance to higher education students on navigating their career journey. Institutions can offer a unified employability
Prior to Smart Provisioning, Microsoft provided customers with licenses that were not purchased. This was done to avoid interruptions in Microsoft 365 services as the customer stepped up and assigned licenses. These unused overages caused a compliance risk, so they’re being removed from the
Effective February 18, 2021, Microsoft 365 E3 offers a variety of new features combining best-in-class productivity apps with core security and compliance capabilities. New management capabilities are: Microsoft Tunnel virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, extending Conditional Access to workers to use Android and iOS
Effective February 18, 2021, extended offline access and device-based subscriptions are available for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (previously called Office 365 ProPlus). Those features remove critical blockers and enable customers to deploy Microsoft 365 across their entire environment, streamlining deployment and administration. Workers
Effective immediately, Cygna Labs’ Cygna Auditor offers organizations that adopt Microsoft 365 and continue to have on-premises infrastructure an audit and compliance reporting solution that can monitor all activity and changes in a single console. The solution provides comprehensive change auditing and alerts on
Microsoft has delayed the mandatory switch of the license management of Dynamics 365 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications in Microsoft 365 Admin Center to November 1, 2025, instead of the previously announced August 30, 2025. This gives organizations one more month for the transition to Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Also,
Until February 1, 2026, Microsoft is offering a 50% discount on Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance for all customers with at least one Microsoft 365 Copilot license. This promotion is available for customers who have previously purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot without Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance. Updated 2025-06-11: You now only need
For Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 & 2019, Microsoft 365 Apps were supposed to no longer receive security updates after October 2025. Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Microsoft 365 Apps on these Windows products for three more years. These updates will be delivered through the standard update