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…
A lot of organizations, both commercial and non-profit, are ‘all in’ or ready for cloud productivity. Microsoft offers cloud productivity services like Microsoft 365 and Office 365. You can choose the one-size-fits all model, but that is expensive. Here is…
Following the price increase of some Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft 365 offerings for Commercial customers, Microsoft announced that they will soon do the same for Nonprofit customers. Here are the details. Read time: 2 minutes Commercial and Nonprofit Commercial…
Microsoft’s on premises flagship database product SQL Server is on the edge of a new version: 2022 is on its way. Today it is in private preview (for selected customers) and we expect general availability (GA) in the second half…
Starting March 1st, Microsoft has added the new Microsoft Defender for Business to the Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription. Later this calendar year Defender for Business will become available as a stand-alone subscription. Read time: 2 minutes New Defender for…
Starting March 1st, 2022, Microsoft will no longer charge customers for the dial-in option for Teams meetings. Read time: 2 minutes Meeting dial-in Attending Teams meetings (online, digital meeting platform from Microsoft, for those who don’t know) requires access (over…