Microsoft have announced that the “App Governance add-on feature for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps” will, from June 1 2023, be included in Defender for Cloud Apps at no additional cost.
This means organisations licensed with:
Microsoft 365 E5
Microsoft 365 E5 Security/Compliance
Microsoft 365 F5
EMS E5
will receive access to what is currently a paid additional license free of charge. It’s not very often that Microsoft (or any software publisher) do things this way round!
Microsoft say they will either proactively cancel subscriptions or do so upon receiving a ticket, depending on the licensing channel.
The November 2021 Microsoft Product Terms contains quite a few updates!
Microsoft Managed Desktop
As an offering, it’s been available for a while as a bit of a hidden secret almost but now it’s in the Product Terms.
Microsoft Viva
A few additions here:
Microsoft Viva
Viva Learning
Viva with Glint* add-on added
which rounds out the Viva line-up in the Product Terms (I think!):
*Glint is a 3rd-party product that sits in a similar, complementary area – see more here.
Defender products
Another addition to the Defender line up as:
“Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)” is renamed to “Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps”
I’m not 100% sure I agree with this name change as I feel it downplays the capabilities of MCAS as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) for a start.
Additionally, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 has been added (see more here) and the existing version renamed to Plan 2.
Following on from the above, a new product has appeared…
App Governance add-on for “Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps”
This is a “security & policy management” product for OAuth-enabled apps that access Microsoft 365 data via the Microsoft Graph and aims to help organisations govern, detect, and remediate 3rd-party access to corporate data in Microsoft 365.
A new “Power Apps per User” 2000 seat minimum SKU has been added – clearly Microsoft are seeing/expecting large scale rollouts of PowerApps…especially after its 202% year-on-year growth in Q1!
Productivity Servers
It was revealed a while back that the next releases of the Productivity Servers (Exchange/SharePoint/Lync), as well as Project, would be subscription only and now some of them have arrived in the Product Terms.
Just Project and SharePoint have been added currently but I’d imagine the same rules will apply to the other products. They are now officially known as:
Project Server Subscription Edition
SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
and active Software Assurance (SA) is required to run the latest “Subscription edition”. However, should SA lapse, you receive perpetual rights to run the 2019 version.
Microsoft Clouds
Two previously announced Microsoft Cloud products:
“Financial Services”
“Nonprofit”
have been added, as add-ons, to the Product Terms. They can be added on top of the following licenses:
Financial Services
Microsoft 365 E3/E5
Microsoft Project
Power Apps/Power Automate/PowerBI
Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise
Dynamics 365 Digital Messaging
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise
Dynamics 365 Customer Voice
Non-Profit
Office 365 E3/E5
Microsoft 365 E3/E5
LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Power Apps/Power Automate/Power BI
Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise
Dynamics 365 Marketing
Azure App Service
Non-Profit comes in 3 flavours:
Basic
Plan 1
Available to orgs with up to, and including, 250 total employees
Cloudy with a chance of Licensing 