Visual Studio Subscriptions have been added to MCA
Windows 10 ESU added to CSP
Microsoft Defender & Microsoft Purview Suites have now been made available to Business Premium users
That last point is very interesting as this brings a world of new security features to smaller organisations – which will have multiple impacts:
1) directly increase the ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) of SMB customers as they buy new add-ons 2) increase the chances of SMB customers adopting Copilot – as these new products address many of the security/data challenges… 2b) which will further increase the ARPU of SMB customers
Microsoft have long been calling out the strength of SMB driving M365 sales so this is a logical next step.
Microsoft have once again combined and rebranded some of their products – Azure Purview + the Microsoft 365 compliance products = Microsoft Purview. This new product family combines 17 different products across data governance and risk management – the (relatively straightforward) name changes are:
Current Name
New Name
Microsoft 365 Advanced Audit
Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
Microsoft 365 Communication Compliance
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance
Microsoft Compliance Manager
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
Office 365 Customer Lockbox
Microsoft Purview Customer Lockbox
Azure Purview Data Catalog
Microsoft Purview Data Catalog
Microsoft 365 Data Connectors
Microsoft Purview Data Connectors
Microsoft Information Governance
Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management
Office 365 Data Loss Prevention
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Azure Purview Data Map
Microsoft Purview Data Map
Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365
Microsoft Purview Double Key Encryption
Records Management in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Purview Records Management
Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)
Microsoft 365 Information Barriers
Microsoft Purview Information Barriers
Microsoft Information Protection
Microsoft Purview Information Protection
Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
Azure Purview portal
Microsoft Purview governance portal
Microsoft 365 compliance center
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
The new offering now includes data protection for the macOS platform as well as 50+ new sensitive info classifiers, co-authoring of encrypted documents on mobile devices (in preview), and multi-stage retention labels. It’s another step along the way in Microsoft’s journey to make their security portfolio stronger, less fragmented and – perhaps – less confusing.
If you have (what was) Azure Purview – head over to the Microsoft Purview governance portal here.
If you have Microsoft 365 E5 and/or Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance – head over to the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal here.
Cloudy with a chance of Licensing 