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,…
October 18th, 2022 During the 2022 edition of Ignite Microsoft announced a new member to their Teams family: Microsoft Teams Premium. The features of this new member will become available as public preview starting December 2022 and general availability is…
Kids are back to school and Microsoft’s new Fiscal Year has started July 1st. This means: Audit season has started too. Both end customer organizations – mostly large Enterprises – and Microsoft partners like Managed Services Providers are the lucky…
Microsoft has multiple (cloud-based) solutions for Identity and Access security and management. Now they introduced Entra as the product family which will cover these solutions, existing and newly acquired. Read time: 2 minutes According to Microsoft According to Microsoft, Microsoft…
Software Asset Management is all about control over your environment, knowing what you have deployed and licensing what you use, software and cloud. Since that is important in saving money and mitigating legal risks, detailing assets is essential. When more…