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.
Tag Archives: Add-on
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.
Python in Excel Add-on
Microsoft add the Python in Excel Add-on to the September 2024 Product Terms. The Python in Excel feature is currently rolling out to customers with licenses for the Microsoft 365 Apps, enabling users to access the power of Python analytics directly from Excel. Users who need faster calculations with premium compute and access to manual or partial recalculation modes need to purchase the Python in Excel Add-on through EA or CSP.
Find the support documentation here: https://bit.ly/3B3Si3b with a useful section on availability, and details in the Product Terms here: https://bit.ly/2OFt7vB. LicenseVerse is updated here: https://bit.ly/3XkrYJm.
Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-on
Microsoft announce a business continuity service for Windows 365 to protect against regional outages. When activated, the service creates temporary copies of users’ Cloud PCs in alternative geographical regions, preserving installed applications, user settings, and data. The Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-On license costs $5 per user per month and is currently only available for Windows 365 Enterprise users.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3LJfyFB, and the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/46HK1hf.
Microsoft Entra Suite
Microsoft announce that the Microsoft Entra Suite is generally available. This solution brings together identity and network access so that you can secure employee access to any cloud or on-premises application or resource from any location whilst all the time enforcing least privileged access. Microsoft Entra Suite costs $12 per user per month and can be assigned to any user already licensed with Entra ID Plan 1 – or any plan (like Microsoft 365 E3) that includes it. There’s also an Add-on available for users already licensed with Entra ID Plan 2.
Find the announcement here (with a list of the suite components): https://bit.ly/4fa2iY1, pricing information here: https://bit.ly/46dHcUU, and the Product Terms information here: https://bit.ly/2OFt7vB.
Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (July 2024) Power Platform Licensing Guide with just a couple of changes. Firstly, there’s a new tier of Dataverse Database capacity Add-on which is available in increments of 1 GB and has a minimum purchase requirement of 1,000 units. Secondly, Dynamics 365 Professional and Teams Members licences may now be used with Managed Environments, rather than just the Enterprise licences.
Grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3VO3BDj.
Power Platform Licensing Guide
There’s an updated (May 2024) Power Platform Licensing Guide. The main change is the replacement of the Power Automate Hosted RPA Add-on licence with the full (no prerequisites) Power Automate Hosted Process licence. This license is a superset of the Power Automate Process licence but with the addition of a Microsoft hosted virtual machine and an unattended RPA bot.
Find the updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4botvns.
Microsoft 365 plan comparison document
There’s an updated (August 2023) version of the popular Microsoft 365 plan comparison document showing you the different components in all of the Enterprise and Frontline Worker plans and the Add-on licences that are available. This latest refresh is updated for the name change of Azure Active Directory to Entra ID, includes more detail on the Defender Vulnerability Management SKUs, and updates the Viva section with Viva Glint and Viva Goals.
Find this useful document here: https://bit.ly/3sdixQj.
App Governance included in Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft announce that from 1 June, 2023 the App Governance Add-on will be included in Microsoft 365 E5, E5 Security, or any other licence that includes Defender for Cloud Apps.
Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/3o1bZ5G.
Microsoft 365 plan comparison document
There’s an April 2023 version of the popular Microsoft 365 plan comparison document showing you the different components in all of the Enterprise and Frontline Worker plans and the Add-on licences that are available. This time it’s updated for new offerings such as Intune Plan 2 and the Intune Suite. Find this useful document here: https://bit.ly/2LG4gqi.