Microsoft announce that from 27 January, 2025 any OneDrive user account that has been unlicensed for more than 93 days will be automatically archived, at which point the data will be only be viewable via admin tools. A OneDrive account becomes unlicensed when a licence is removed from a user or when a user is deleted.
Find more details in this useful Learn article: https://bit.ly/48pPY3a.
Microsoft announce that from November 2024 unused Azure Subscriptions will start to be blocked and then deleted. This applies to MCA Azure Subscriptions and those associated with purchases direct from Microsoft’s website.
Find details in a useful Learn article here: https://bit.ly/3Yorvqq.
There’s an updated (October 2024) Microsoft 365 Apps Licensing Brief from Microsoft. It coincides, of course, with the recent launch of Office LTSC 2024 – see our blog: https://bit.ly/3Yq4O5c, and now also includes the Flexible Virtualization Benefit.
There’s also a question added about whether you can deploy the Microsoft 365 Apps on Amazon WorkSpaces – you can.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/409v1HA.
There’s an updated (September 2024) Office LTSC Licensing Brief from Microsoft updated, of course, for the recent launch of Office LTSC 2024 – see our blog: https://bit.ly/3Yq4O5c.
It now also includes the Flexible Virtualization Benefit and the new external user definition effective from October 2024 – see our blog: https://bit.ly/4fdde6r.
There are also long-overdue updates for the retirement of Windows To Go, and the renaming of the Home Use Program to the Workplace Discount Program.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3YxJdsJ.
Microsoft announce the general availability of HP Anyware for Windows 365 for organisations that want to integrate HP Anyware digital workspaces with Windows 365 Cloud PCs. From a licensing perspective you need both a Windows 365 Enterprise licence and an HP Anyware licence.
Resources-wise, find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3BRTiYy, an overview datasheet here: https://bit.ly/3A63vQE, and a video showing some of the benefits and the setup process here: https://bit.ly/48jz99K.
Microsoft announce that Office LTSC 2024 (Standard and Professional Plus) and Office 2024 (Home and Home & Business) editions are available from 1 October 2024.
The LTSC flavours are accompanied by their favourite friends, Visio LTSC 2024 and Project 2024, and you can find that announcement here: https://bit.ly/480Ym91, while the consumer editions announcement is here: https://bit.ly/40esZpv.
Microsoft make their comprehensive Modern Work Licensing FAQ publicly available.
It’s a great document, if misnamed – can you really have 515 FREQUENTLY asked questions?! Questionable name aside, this is jolly useful resource to have in your licensing documents stash – find it here: https://bit.ly/4dYENj4.
Microsoft announce that Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 is available from 1 October 2024 – find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4dRa4V6.
It includes the cumulative enhancements provided in Windows 11 versions 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 and you can find full details on what’s new here: https://bit.ly/4h8JidF.
There are updated (October 2024) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents. These very popular documents allow you to see which of the (many) components are contained in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan. There are different flavours of the documents for different types of customers.
Find the one for Enterprise customers here: https://bit.ly/3BzeylI,
SMB customers here: https://bit.ly/3Bxz0Do,
Education customers here: https://bit.ly/3U7G93F,
GCC customers here: https://bit.ly/3Y1cdaP,
GCC High customers here: https://bit.ly/3YeF4tm, and
DoD customers here: https://bit.ly/3zTigpL.
Enjoy!
There’s an updated (October 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of changes. First of all, it’s updated for the new pricing that came into effect on 1 October, 2024 – see our blog for a reminder of this: https://bit.ly/3NnDI9q. And secondly, it’s amended for the rebranding of Copilot for Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot – see our blog for the Copilot Wave 2 update: https://bit.ly/3YjqgK6.
Grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/47XWBt3.