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It’s the Microsoft Product Terms for June 2024.
As always at this point of the year (almost end of FY), it’s a quiet one with nothing major but, as we’re here, let’s take a look anyway shall we?! 😊
Azure GenAI terms updated re: Training content
Several products added to the “Core Online Services” table
Clause re: automatic updates for Microsoft Defender for Identity added
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 for Student added to EES
Microsoft added several more base licenses for Copilot for M365 on June 12 – see the full list here
An end to “From SA” licenses for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 – see more here.
Changes to Office Professional install rights for M365 users as part of the above too.
Microsoft Copilot for Service added to the Microsoft 365 Availability Table for EA, EAS, and MCA.
2 new Intune products added:
A new term added for Microsoft Relationship Sales:
“All components, software and entitlements of Microsoft Relationship Sales are limited for use with Dynamics 365 Sales environments only.“
A new section added for Dynamics 365 Business Central around Bookkeeping laws in Denmark here.
A few changes for January 2024 – further expansion of the Frontline SKU lineup and Copilot makes its way to the world of education.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is added
It’s listed for Enterprise Agreements (as expected) but also the MCA (Microsoft Customer Agreement) and nowhere is there any mention of a 300 license minimum.
I assume it is listed under MCA as it’s available on the MCA for Enterprise Customers aka MCA-E – that is for Enterprise customers buying directly from Microsoft rather than those in the CSP channel. It’s rightly been noted that Copilot isn’t visible on the public pricelists so almost certainly isn’t magically available via CSP but without clarifying text in the Product Terms (or anywhere else), it’s not clear. Nothing like a bit of licensing confusion for one of the biggest product releases in ages!
System Center is added to CSP and the “16-cores” per customer requirement is removed when licensing by virtual OSE.
There’s a new AI related term too:
“Excessive use of a Microsoft Generative AI Service may result in temporary throttling of Customer’s access to the Microsoft Generative AI Service“
The Office 365 “no Teams” EEA SKUs have been added
Azure AD rebranded to Microsoft Entra ID
Universal Print per user added
Microsoft Defender for IoT – EIoT Device License – add-on added
Bit of Viva name tweaking, we now have:
Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities
Microsoft Viva Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback
The Copilot Copyright Commitment is added
New Copilot/Generative AI relation terms including:
“Customer may not…try to gain unauthorized access to or disrupt any service, device, data, account or network, including by intentionally evading or disrupting restrictions in Metaprompts”
Name changes were the name of the game this month:
Microsoft Viva Sales has its named changed to “Microsoft Sales Copilot”
Dynamics 365 Marketing = “Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys”
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights = “Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data”
Sold together as “Dynamics 365 Customer Insights” 🙄
Not much happening in May, this month we saw:
Products in the Core Services lists will store data at rest in the same geo as the service is deployed, part of Microsoft’s data privacy practices.
Clarification to the Online Services “Acceptable Use Policy” that crypto-mining is prohibited without Microsoft’s prior approval. I wonder when they will give permission for this?!
DevOps Server 2022 added
A clarification notice around Microsoft’s communication services, relating to taxes and relations to 3rd-party services.
This month we’ve 2 new M365 data related SKUs:
M365 Advanced Data Residency
M365 Cross-tenant User Data Migration
There is also the removal of:
Microsoft Threat Experts
SharePoint Advanced Management Plan 1
The SharePoint SKU was only added last month but there was very little info available, so it seems likely it was added in error. Let’s see if/when it reappears.
A nice addition – Azure Active Directory Basic now allows unlimited SSO (Single Sign On) – the previous limit was 10 apps so à really significant change.
There is a 50% off promo for Defender for Endpoint on EA from Nov 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023
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