Tag Archives: Essentials

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.

Teams Essentials and Teams Phone bundle offers

Microsoft announce promotional pricing for Teams Essentials and Teams Phone bundles for customers in the US, Canada, and the UK. Organisations can choose Teams Essentials with just Teams Phone Standard, or with a Domestic or International Calling Plan, or PAYG calling. Equally, customers could choose to add these Teams Phone options on to their existing Teams Essentials licences at a promotional price. Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3QidSXf, and details of the promotional offers here: https://bit.ly/3rKyDjZ.

Microsoft Teams Essentials

Microsoft introduce Teams Essentials, a standalone Teams offering aimed at small businesses.

It’s $4 per user per month available through CSP partners or directly from Microsoft’s website and allows unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours with up to 300 participants.

This site is useful for seeing how Teams Essentials compares to other plans aimed at smaller businesses such as Microsoft 365 Business Basic and Standard: https://bit.ly/31LrCSX.

Find the Teams Essentials announcement here: https://bit.ly/3pF2plr, and resources for partners selling Teams solutions here: https://bit.ly/3rJOSvB.