Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents

There are updated (March 2025) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with lines added for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting and XDR.

These useful documents tell you which of the (many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/4kyNmWi), one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/4hDoMRj), and still more for specialist US Government customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/4bYkXoy), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/41ApWqX) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/4hF1CKf).

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (March 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide with a new Managed Environments section on page 30 making it clear which licences and/or Pay-As-You-Go meters give rights to the premium features included in Managed Environments.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4kYlWcv.

Software reimaging rights licensing guidance

There’s an updated (February 2025) software reimaging rights licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There aren’t major changes – just a few version updates and references to VLSC changed to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

Grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4bXLXVe.

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus

Microsoft announce that Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus is currently in preview and will be available in Spring 2025. Like the existing Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery capability it will be an Add-on licence for Windows 365 Enterprise. So, what’s the difference between these two options? Well, it’s all about how quickly your systems are back up and running and the maximum amount of data loss that’s acceptable. Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus improves on these metrics and you can find a useful table comparing the two licences on the announcement page here: https://bit.ly/4ie1pix.

Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (March 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a few minor changes. You can find these documented in the Change Log on page 60 with perhaps the most significant being the removal of Fraud Protection.

Find out more about that on our blog here: https://bit.ly/4hrYRMn, and download the updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4hlwoYG.

Core CAL and Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance

There’s an updated (February 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft.

There aren’t many changes from the previous (November 2020) version because, to be honest, not much has changed in the CAL Suites world. However, note that a couple of errors have been introduced into the table on page 3.

Find this document here: https://bit.ly/3FgONIK.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Microsoft 365 E5 Security

Microsoft announce that Microsoft 365 Business Premium is now an eligible prerequisite for Microsoft 365 E5 Security.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium already includes core security solutions for SMBs and the announcement article does a good job of explaining exactly where the security coverage is enhanced with this Add-on licence.

Find the relevant article here: https://bit.ly/4ivoFrS.

Microsoft Sustainability Manager licensing guidance

There’s a new (February 2025) Microsoft Sustainability Manager licensing guidance document from Microsoft. This is one of the Microsoft Cloud industry solutions and it’s licensed with an Essentials or Premium tenant license costing $4,000 or $12,000 per month respectively, and $0 Essentials or Premium User SLs.

The licensing guidance document has information on included Dataverse capacity, dependencies on other products, as well as an FAQ section, and you can find it here: https://bit.ly/3ECiNP3.