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Microsoft Product Terms: October 2025


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More name changes to keep us all busy!


Rebranded Microsoft 365 E5 Security (and all relevant offers) to Microsoft Defender Suite
Rebranded Microsoft E5 Compliance (and all relevant offers) to Microsoft Purview Suite

M365 E5 Security = Microsoft Defender Suite
M365 E5 Compliance = Microsoft Purview Suite

M365 F5 Security = Microsoft Defender Suite FLW
M365 F5 Compliance = Microsoft Purview Suite FLW

There is also a “Defender + Purview Suite FLW” SKU

FLW = FrontLine Worker

As always, there’s going to be a period of time where the names differ between pages, sites, documents etc. so be prepared…especially for renewals.

2) Removed Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence from Availability and Prerequisite Tables

3) Azure Firmware Analysis and Azure IoT Operations connectors added

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Microsoft Product Terms for June 2025


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It’s the Microsoft Product Terms for June 2025 and, as you’d expect in the last month of the FY, not too much has changed.

Clarification that it’s Cloud Add-ons to SA that must be acquired on the same agreement as the base license…rather than all SLs that have a pre-requisite license.

Azure App Service plan added to MCA.

Clarification that Entra ID Governance for External Identities may be used only for External Users. <– This seems like it’s closing a loophole that customers may have been using.

Copilot Studio added as a “covered product” to the Customer Copyright Commitment.

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Microsoft Product Terms: April 2025


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Frontline Worker Use Rights have moved to the Universal Terms for Online Services from product specific pages

A new definition for “Frontline Worker License” has been introduced in the Glossary

“Frontline Worker License means a license for a Microsoft Product designated with an “F”, “FLW”, or “Frontline” as identified in the Product Conditions table of product specific terms, which are subject to the Eligibility to Assign Frontline Worker Licenses terms in the Universal License Terms for all Online Services.”

Added Windows 10 ESU Cloud Managed SKUs

Removed Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection and Fraud Protection Additional Capacity from Availability tables

Updated Windows 365 Frontline terms and grant Windows 365 access rights for Windows Cloud PC OS

Added Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus Add-on to Availability Table

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Microsoft Product Terms: December 2024


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Not surprisingly, December was a quiet month.

On the 1st, Microsoft made some Azure updates:

  • Added language clarifying ACS is used for business purposes only. 
  • Added Workload Hub specific terms to the Microsoft Fabric terms. 
  • Updated pricing terms. 
  • Added Azure AI Speech custom text to speech avatar to Limited Access Services

and then on the 5th:

  • Updated “Azure Stack HCI” to “Azure Local”
  • Added Defender for Endpoint F1 and F2 to MCA Availability table
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Microsoft Product Terms: October 2024


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The October 2024 Microsoft Product Terms are fairly quiet:

Self-Hosting & Disaster Recovery rights have been added to Windows Server & SQL Server subscription licenses under MCA.

Project is now “Planner & Project Plan 3/5”

GitHub Copilot Enterprise added

LTSC versions of Windows Enterprise and Office 2024 are added

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Microsoft Product Terms: August 2024


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It’s the Microsoft Product Terms for August 2024 – the first of the new FY so not much going on but let’s take a look.

O365/M365 A1 added as a base license for Copilot for M365

The base licenses for Copilot for Sales & Services have been expanded, although not to the extent of Copilot for M365. You can now add these to:
Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium/F1/F3/E3/A1/A3/E5/A5
Office 365 F3/E1/E3/A1/A3/E5/A5

Intune Frontline Worker SKUs added to MCA

Changes to (seemingly) tighten the wording around using Open AI content for training purposes.

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Microsoft Product Terms: May 2024


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Copilot for M365 prerequisites updated to include new SKUs as eligible base licenses. The line-up is now:
Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium/F1/F3/E3/A3/E5/A5

Office 365 F3/E1/E3/A3/E5/A5

Entra ID Governance F SKU added

Entra ID Governance can be added to M365 Business Premium

Microsoft Viva Pulse added

Azure AI Studio added, although it’s still in public preview

No changes to Dynamics 365 for the first time in about 9 decades!

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Microsoft Product Terms: April 2024


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Teams has been “consciously decoupled*” from Microsoft 365 on a global basis, so they’re now only available separately to new users. Existing users can continue to renew but if you need to buy both, it equals more cash more Microsoft.

Teams Enterprise is now listed, which appears to be the standalone version of Teams. From a naming perspective, “that “Enterprise” sounds “bigger” than “Premium” (which is a paid add-on) so I’d expect a rebrand at some point soon🤔

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Premium has been added…plus another error as “Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management” is listed as having a minimum purchase quantity of both 10 and 20…clearly one should say “Premium” at the end (the one with 10 I believe).

They’ve still not corrected the D364 error from last month either 🤣

*Shout out to Gwyneth Paltrow

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Microsoft Product Terms: March 2024


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It’s the Microsoft Product Terms for March 2024…and it’s mainly just tidying up and new F SKUs:

Graduation benefit removed for Education

Clarification that you CAN use the M365 F1 mailbox for Bookings but nothing else

D365 Finance Premium minimum purchase reduced from 20 to 10
Also proof that MS make the same typos we all do as they talk about “Dynamics 364”

Teams Phone Std for Frontline Workers added

  • Several new Intune products added including:
  • Advanced Analytics F SKU
  • Cloud PKI
  • Cloud PKI F SKU
  • Enterprise Application Management F SKU
  • Intune Plan 2 F SKU
  • Remote Help F SKU
  • Intune Suite F SKU

The F SKU portfolio continues to grow…there’s been a steady increase in Frontline worker licenses being added over the last 6 months or so.

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Microsoft Product Terms: January 2024


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A few changes for January 2024 – further expansion of the Frontline SKU lineup and Copilot makes its way to the world of education.

  • Defender for Frontline SKUs added for Cloud Apps, Endpoint, Identity, and Office 365
  • Azure Information Protection Premium Plan 1 removed
  • D365 Field Service Contractor USL added to EA/EAS/MCA
  • D365 Finance Premium USL added to EA/EAS/MCA/EES/MPSA
  • Copilot for Microsoft 365 added to EES for A3 & A5
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