September 14, 2023; Important update on Microsoft taking Teams out of Online Services for Enterprise customers in the European Economic Area and Switzerland: A Microsoft spokesman has confirmed that though ‘net new customers’ means customers who ‘never ever’ had Office…
Quexcel has reached the Microsoft AI Cloud Solutions Partner status with its specialization Modern Work. We like to thank our team for the hard work and our customers for their patience and confidence. This status proves that Microsoft as a…
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 reach end of extended support on July 12 2023, and it’s OS brother Windows Server 2012 / R2 will reach end of extended support on October 10, 2023. After the extended support, Microsoft no longer issues…
This specific audits are not on licensing, but on contract clauses. Microsoft is not aiming to earn more money due to audits on licensing, but wants to reduce business risks by – worst case – eliminating partners from the ecosystem…
Globalization makes even small businesses spread their wings around the globe. And with the increasing growth of cloud services, you can get your IT around the corner, right? To be honest, not automatically. With Microsoft modern work offers, like Office…
Admitted, a little nuance is appropriate; only for customer buying under the Microsoft Customer Agreement through a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner. Microsoft announce availability as of June 1st 2023 (dates are subject to change). Most likely System Center subscription…
Before we go to the new license model, let us look at the longer existing license model for Windows Server: License per physical core on a server. With this license model for Windows Server, a customer must license all the…
Microsoft announce that they will retire the Microsoft Teams Free (classic), starting Mid-April 2023. Off course the recommendation is to migrate to paid Teams licenses before that date to prevent losing access to Teams Services. For customers who decide not…
Intune is Microsoft’s cloud-based device and application management solution. Combined with Windows Autopilot it is great at deploying mobile devices and PC’s and laptops. It is a great solution for access control, enforced data encryption and other technologies to keep…
It isn’t an April fool’s joke, it is very real. In November 2022 Microsoft announced that starting 2023 they will work with a global US Dollar price list for their cloud offerings. They also announced that on a semi-annual basis…
Microsoft announced that they see a strong increase in customers facing unexpected and extreme high invoices for their Azure subscriptions. Hackers use compromised accounts, traded on the Dark Web, to login to Azure Subscriptions and deploy large Azure virtual machines…
November 14, 2022 Read time: 2 minutes SQL Server price increase Starting January 1st 2023 Microsoft will increase the price of all Microsoft SQL Server on-premises licenses with 10%, regardless of the licensing program. Small exception for Microsoft Service Providers,…