There’s an updated (March 2025) Core CAL And Enterprise CAL Suites licensing guidance document from Microsoft. There are minimal changes from the February 2025 version and note that a couple of errors still remain in the table on page 3.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4iquFTa.
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.
There’s a new (February 2025) Base and Additive CALs licensing guidance document from Microsoft which is an evolution of the October 2020 Microsoft Server Base and Additive CALS Overview Licensing Brief document. It’s broadly the same information covered, but all the diagrams showing the layered structure of Base and Additive CALs are removed to be replaced with more comprehensive explanations and links to the Product Terms.
Find this new document here: https://bit.ly/4b5Lzn3.
There’s a new (February 2025) Dynamics 365 Contact Center licensing guidance document from Microsoft. It’s got the fundamental licensing information you’d expect as well as useful sections on example scenarios, integration with other products, and FAQs.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/42QmpHi.
There’s a new (January 2025) Microsoft 365 Apps licensing guidance document. It’s pretty comprehensive, covering all sorts of licensing bits and bobs to do with the Microsoft 365 Apps, and includes an FAQ at the end.
Find this document here: https://bit.ly/4hB2osg.
There’s a new (January 2025) licensing guidance document for Microsoft Defender. It’s an introductory-level document but might be useful to start you on the road to understand the licensing of Microsoft Defender for client and server endpoints.
Find this new guide here: https://bit.ly/3EgYtCy.
There’s a brand new (January 2025) Windows Server 2025 Licensing Guide. It’s very much based on its Windows Server 2022 predecessor with updates such as the removal of Nano Server and the addition of the Pay-As-You-Go licensing option.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4jnwlha.
There’s an updated (August 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with a couple of changes. Firstly, the prerequisites for Copilot for Sales and Service are updated on pages 34/35, and secondly the included entitlements for Contact Center and Customer Service are amended throughout from per tenant to per user. Other minor changes include some additions to the Finance Capabilities table on page 21 and the removal of the term “seeded capacity” in favour of “included capacity”.
Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3WPKPvP.
There’s an updated (July 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide. There’s been some reworking of the initial sections, and the order of the products is now (more or less) alphabetical. There’s a newly-formatted Base and Attach licences table on page 4 which now includes prices, and the brand-new Customer Service Premium and Dynamics 365 Contact Center licences are added throughout.
See our blog for details of those new licences: https://bit.ly/4cNzi6m, and grab this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3L69PJA.
There’s an updated (June 2024) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide, with a lot of small tidying-up type changes which are pretty well documented in the Change Log on page 63.
The biggest change is the definition of an external user on page 43 which now states that a contractor or agent typically won’t work onsite for the customer every working day, or for more than 30 hours on average per week.
Find the updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3R8lriY.