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Microsoft E3 and Windows 10/11 E3 CSP Licenses and VDA Rights
Does a user licensed with a Microsoft E3 or Windows 10/11 E3 licensed through CSP, have VDA Rights for an onprem VDI server? My understanding is that this was recently changed to allow these rights through a CSP Agreement, whereas before it was only allowed through an EA or MPSA agreement. Here is the documentation I have found on this that I am hoping you can verify. I’ve attached the presentation from Microsoft that announced this change. Please go to slide 21 where you can see that you can run Windows hosted desktops on a server through the CSP model. I have attached the Licensing Brief for licensing for Virtual Desktops. If you look at Page 8, you will find the Summary Table, that shows that with a Microsoft E3, you have the ability to run the Microsoft E3 (or Windows E3) on an on-prem server. Thank you!SQL Server Standard - 24 Core Limit - Licensing
Hi Team, Hope you are doing well. I do not want to put up a duplicate question, so please excuse my ignorance, and if this question is already answered, would request you to direct me to the correct link. With SQL Server Standard (Core or Server-CAL model), there is a limit on compute capacity and maximum number of cores should be 24 cores. Would request your help to understand what impact will it have on licensing i.e. do we need to assign such server (assuming running 32 cores) the Enterprise Core edition license? Or do we need to stack SQL Server Standard Core licenses? Appreciate any inputs here.Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Premium Announcement
Summary On January 1, 2024, Microsoft will release a new SKU for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance that empowers people with advanced business performance management capabilities. Dynamics 365 Finance Premium will provide creator access to advanced intelligence, insights, planning, and database capabilities that help customers accelerate business performance. The initial release will focus on creator access to Microsoft’s new extended planning and analysis (xP&A) capabilities that encompass the crucial tasks of budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and corporate performance management. Business performance planning will become generally available on December 31, 2023 and customers will need to purchase Dynamics 365 Finance Premium licenses to use these capabilities. The new SKU will be available on price list preview starting December 1, 2023. This release is a significant step in establishing Microsoft as a leader in ERP with rapid innovations in finance to enhance business performance agility and empower teams with AI-guided planning, analytics, and insights to take next best actions. Make sure to review the blog to learn more: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/12/06/enhance-business-performance-agility-with-microsoft-dynamics-365-finance-premium/. Details Business performance planning Microsoft introduced the https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/05/31/introducing-extended-planning-and-analytics-for-dynamics-365-finance/ on May 31, 2023. The GA of business performance planning capabilities will equip Dynamics 365 Finance customers with a comprehensive view of financial and operational performance to empower more informed decision-making. These capabilities simplify and automate planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analytics through integration with familiar Microsoft Power BI and Excel environments. Initial release use cases will apply to finance “record to report” business processes including revenue planning, bottom-up planning, budgeting, forecasting, long range planning, merger and acquisition valuation, cashflow, risk mitigation, and capex planning. Additional data models will be added to extend use cases to include operational and workforce planning scenarios to deliver on the vision to: Unify disparate data from across the business into a single source of truth. Create, share, and collaborate across secure cloud reporting delivered through familiar tools with Microsoft Excel and Power BI visuals. Receive contextual AI-driven insights to improve business performance, embedded into the flow of work. Connect planning and operational data with AI capabilities to enhance forecasting. Business performance analytics https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/02/22/deliver-insights-with-dynamics-365-finance-business-performance-analytics/ on February 22, 2023, business performance analytics provides Dynamics 365 Finance customers with self-service analytics and reporting that eliminates the need for finance professionals to have expertise in data science or IT. The business performance analytics capabilities are currently available in public preview and you can https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/finance/business-performance-analytics/install-bpa and try it out today. These capabilities are available within the Dynamics 365 Finance SKU; however, looking forward, access to more advanced insights and AI-guided analytics will be available as part of the new Premium SKU. Dynamics 365 Finance SKU placemat – NEW Premium SKU Ensure your customers can activate the new business performance planning capabilities within Dynamics 365 Finance from the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) when they become generally available on December 31, 2023, by optimizing their SKU mix for finance and business performance management users. Any user that needs to create plans, budgets, forecasts, or financial analysis reports will need to have a Dynamics 365 Finance Premium license. Users that only need to read or make light edits to business performance planning tasks can use a Dynamics 365 Finance license. Those that only need to read reports or dashboards can use a Team Member license. You can find pricing details here: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/finance/pricing/ Modernizing business performance management Microsoft’s new business performance planning and business performance analytics capabilities provide an advanced approach that goes beyond traditional financial planning and analytics to deliver across these planning and analytics use cases: Integrated Business Planning (IBP): Enables the integration of financial planning with operational and strategic planning, breaking down silos between different business functions. This holistic approach ensures alignment across your organization's various planning processes. Driver-Based Planning: Allow you organization to develop driver-based models, where key operational drivers (such as sales volume, headcount, or production units) directly impact financial outcomes. This dynamic modelling improves accuracy and responsiveness in forecasting. Scenario Planning and Analysis: Facilitate the creation and analysis of multiple scenarios, considering various internal and external factors. This helps you understand potential impacts on financial performance and make informed decisions in a rapidly changing business environment. Real-Time Reporting and Analysis: Get visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and financial metrics. This ensures that decision-makers have access to the most up-to-date information, enabling timely and data-driven decision-making. Profitability Analysis: Conduct detailed profitability analyses by customer, product, or business segment. This granular level of analysis helps in identifying areas for improvement and optimizing resource allocation. Collaborative Planning: Encourage collaboration among different departments and stakeholders involved in your planning process. This collaborative approach fosters better communication, alignment, and a shared understanding of organizational goals. Cash Flow Planning: Effective cash flow planning is crucial for the financial health of an organization. Ensure you have robust tools for cash flow forecasting, helping you manage liquidity and make strategic decisions to optimize your cash position. Rolling Forecasts: Unlike static annual budgets, you need support for rolling forecasts, allowing your organization to continuously update forecasts based on actual performance and changes in the business environment. This adaptability enhances agility in financial planning. Ensure your customers are ready to adopt the new business performance planning capabilities and start 2024 with a better view of their strategic plans. Call to Action Familiarize yourself with the https://dynamicspartners.transform.microsoft.com/download/protected?assetname=assets/Dynamics%20365%20Finance%20Premium%20FAQ_113023.pdf&download=1&protected=1 and https://dynamicspartners.transform.microsoft.com/download/protected?assetname=assets/Business%20Performance%20Management%20-%20Dynamics%20365%20Finance_for%20Partner%20Hub.pptx&download=1&protected=1 Read the blog: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/12/06/enhance-business-performance-agility-with-microsoft-dynamics-365-finance-premium/ Bookmark the https://dynamicspartners.transform.microsoft.com/products/finance Review the new Finance Premium SKU in pricelist preview Follow news to access demo resources and technical training coming in January 2024 Drive adoption with your customers and optimize the SKU mix to ensure people have access to business performance management capabilities More resources and technical training will roll out January - March 2024 Ask questions in the https://aka.ms/bizappsmpcIntroducing the Microsoft Copilot Copyright Commitment
Summary Today Microsoft shared with you https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/announce, a new commitment that extends the existing intellectual property defense obligations to commercial Copilot services, including Dynamics 365 Copilot, Copilot in Power Platform and Microsoft Sales Copilot, and builds on the previous https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/06/08/announcing-microsofts-ai-customer-commitments/. This means that if a third party sues a commercial customer for copyright infringement for Microsoft’s commercial Copilots, and/or Bing Chat Enterprise or the output the Copilots generate, Microsoft will defend the customer and pay the amount of any adverse judgments or settlements that result from the lawsuit, as long as the customer used the guardrails and content filters built into the products and is not attempting to generate infringing materials. The Microsoft Copilot Copyright Commitment will be effective starting October 1, 2023, and apply to paid versions of Microsoft commercial Copilot services and Bing Chat Enterprise. It will not extend to any free products, custom-built Copilot services, or consumer products or services, even if identified as a Copilot. It will be reflected in a single change to Microsoft’s https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/PT, where all applicable conditions will be detailed. Below are the key protections offered by this commitment. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and the relevant contractual terms will reflect the details. It will be extended to paid versions of Microsoft commercial Copilot services and Bing Chat Enterprise. It will not extend to any free products, custom-built Copilot services, or consumer products or services, even if identified as a Copilot. It covers third-party IP claims based on copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrets, or right of publicity – please refer to the FAQs for more details on the claims covered and exclusions. It covers the customer’s use and distribution of the output content generated by the Copilot services, but not the customer’s input data, modifications of the output content, or uses of output that the customer knows or should know will infringe the rights of others. It requires the customer to use the content filters and other safety systems built into the product and the customer must not attempt to generate infringing materials, including not providing input to a Copilot service that the customer does not have appropriate rights to use. Next Steps Use the resources below to prepare for customer conversations: Read and share the https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/announce and the https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/licensing Prepare for customer questions and meetings: Get the latest https://aka.ms/BACopilot story and resources Resources https://aka.ms/BACopilot Contact For more information about the Microsoft Copilot Copyright Commitment, please post questions here on the https://aka.ms/bizappsmpc. Call to Action Read and share the https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/announce and the https://aka.ms/CopilotCopyright/licensing Review the https://aka.ms/BACopilot Transform Page Engage in the https://aka.ms/bizappsmpcAnnouncing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot and Next-generation AI tools for Power Platform
Release Summary On March 6 at 6:00 a.m., Microsoft https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFsWp/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot , the world’s first AI copilot in both CRM and ERP. Copilot brings the power of next-generation AI capabilities and natural language processing to Dynamics 365, acting as a real-time collaborator that works alongside business professionals to help them create ideas and content faster, complete time-consuming tasks, and get insights and next best actions – just by describing what’s needed. Copilot features are available in preview across Dynamics 365 applications, Microsoft Viva Sales and Microsoft Supply Chain Center, providing AI-assisted guidance tailored for a range of job functions across the organization – from marketing, sales and service to supply chain and operational roles. Microsoft also https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFyvr/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2022/10/12/leverage-low-code-to-do-more-with-less-at-microsoft-ignite-2022/ the preview of new AI developer tools in Power Platform and Nuance Mix. By combining these platforms with one of the world’s most advanced language AI models, Microsoft is transforming the application development landscape and empowering a new type of developer - the citizen developer – to solve business challenges. Dynamics 365, Viva Sales and Microsoft Supply Chain Center Announcements Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales and Viva Sales The new AI update to Microsoft Viva Sales helps sellers cut down time they spend at the end of every week writing emails to recap meetings and next steps, with the ability to generate an email summary of a Teams meeting right in Outlook. The meeting summary pulls in details from the seller’s CRM such as product and pricing information, as well as insights from the recorded Teams call. With sellers spending as much as https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChF2Jt/zbpdTP9?url=https://futurumresearch.com/research-reports/sales-teams-need-a-transformation-microsoft-is-ready-to-deliver/ , this presents a significant business upside to give the seller more time with their customers. With this new capability, sellers can generate a simple and clear summary right in Outlook based on the Teams meeting, and it automatically includes related CRM data. This can then be sent on to the customer to ensure there is alignment on next steps and ownership of actions. Auto-generated responses are available in public preview now. Email meeting summaries will be available in public preview on March 16. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChF7jw/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Now available in limited preview, Copilot in Customer Service empowers agents to deliver exceptional customer care, optimizing for both accuracy and speed by drafting contextual answers to queries in both chat and email. Microsoft is also making it easier for Customer Service departments to build virtual agents in minutes with https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFC5y/zbpdTP9?url=https://aka.ms/GPT-PP , which harnesses the power of Azure OpenAI Service and the AI-powered Bing to provide answers from company websites and internal knowledgebases that you choose. Copilot becomes the agent's 24/7 AI-powered assistant to help them decipher through large volumes of data, helping resolve issues more quickly, handle cases more efficiently, and increase automation of time-consuming tasks, so agents can focus on delivering high quality service to their customers. Copilot features in Dynamics 365 Customer Service are now in limited preview. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFHV0/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Marketing Using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Marketing, marketers can simplify their workflows by using generative AI to create customer segments and kickstart content creation using conversational prompts. A marketer can now use the Copilot capability query assist to describe their ideal customer in their own words to create a target segment. What used to take hours to create can now be done in just minutes. With content ideas, a new Copilot capability in Dynamics 365 Marketing, marketers can get inspiration generating fresh email campaign content based on a simple request in just moments. Copilot makes suggestions based on key topics entered by the marketer, the organization’s existing marketing emails, as well as from a range of internet sources, to increase the relevance of generated ideas. Through these new Copilot capabilities, marketers can spend less time on copywriting and segmentation, and be empowered by knowing that not only are they creating their best messages but sending them to the right people. Content ideas and query assist are both available in public preview today. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFNt2/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights In the past, in order to create customer segments, marketers would have to rely on their engineering teams to write queries in SQL, often taking weeks to receive results. With Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Microsoft is making it easier for marketing teams to engage directly with customer data, thereby democratizing access to insights. Marketers can have a dialogue with their data to validate and discover new customer insights and deliver targeted and personalized marketing campaigns. They can now simply ask Copilot about their customers and receive answers immediately, and even get suggestions about other questions that could be asked to highlight insights such as additional segments that may not have been previously considered. This new capability can handle calculations across multiple variables and return a list of customers that fit a select profile or display tabular data. Copilot features in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights are now in limited preview. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFSH4/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Microsoft Supply Chain Center New Copilot capabilities for Microsoft Supply Chain Center, which is available to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management customers, help predict and act on disruptions. Using the intelligence from the news module, Copilot proactively flags external issues such as weather, financials, and geography that may impact key supply chain processes. Predictive insights then surface impacted orders across materials, inventory, carrier, distribution network and more. Supply chain planners can take action with a contextual email draft generated in Outlook by Copilot to alert impacted partners and mitigate potential disruptions before they happen. Copilot features for Microsoft Supply Chain Center are now in limited preview. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChFYh6/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Business Central Organizations can save time and drive sales with AI-generated product descriptions using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Business Central to create compelling product descriptions in seconds product attributes such as color, material, and size. The descriptions can be further tailored by choosing tone of voice, format, and length. Dynamics 365 Business Central customers using Shopify can seamlessly publish the products with descriptions to their Shopify store in just a few clicks. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Business Central is now in limited preview. Product description generation will be available in public preview on March 16. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChGd48/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/03/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-365-copilot-bringing-next-generation-ai-to-every-line-of-business/ for more details. Power Platform & Nuance Mix Announcements Microsoft’s bot building platforms introduce conversation boosters with GPT Using the Azure Open AI Service, conversation boosters within Power Virtual Agents and Nuance Mix enable you to connect your bot to your most current and useful data sources, like company websites or internal data and the bot can immediately construct a relevant and meaningful response using GPT. With the bot now able to search, summarize and moderate answers at speed, with just a URL and no additional topic development, this makes the bots instantly useful out of the box with a greater breadth of knowledge. Power Virtual Agents is available now in public preview, Nuance Mix available in limited preview. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChGjTB/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2023/03/06/build-solutions-faster-with-microsoft-power-platform-and-next-generation-ai/ for more details. AI Builder text generation with GPT AI Builder’s create text with GPT action enables developers to access no-code large language models from Azure OpenAI service. This next generation AI capability can be leveraged to enable a wide variety of use cases in Power Automate and Power Apps to build intelligent solutions. Using text generation with GPT, you can instruct the model with natural language to perform a given task. For example, you can use the capability to create a summarization tool that can quickly and accurately summarize long documents and extract key pieces of information that are relevant to a business. Text generation with Azure OpenAI service for AI Builder will be available for private preview on March 6. Read the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChGosD/zbpdTP9?url=https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2023/03/06/build-solutions-faster-with-microsoft-power-platform-and-next-generation-ai/ for more details. Call to Action Learn: https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChGygJ/zbpdTP9?url=https://aka.ms/AAjkggy https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChG23L/zbpdTP9?url=https://aka.ms/0323AIHe https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChG6SN/zbpdTP9?url=https://aka.ms/GPT-PP https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChGCrQ/zbpdTP9?url=https://whatsnext.nuance.com/customer-engagement/GPT-powered-capability-nuance-contact-center/ Join Microsoft for the next step in their journey to reinvent productivity with AI on March 16. Register for the event on the https://microsoft.bl-1.com/h/i/dsChHdrc/zbpdTP9?url=https://aka.ms/AI/Reinventing/Productivity Review Partner resources on the https://dynamicspartners.transform.microsoft.com/ https://msfteventsb2c.b2clogin.com/msfteventsb2c.onmicrosoft.com/b2c_1a_universal_signuporsignin_msaccmsempwrkschlliunpwexp/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=a49730c6-bed2-4b48-9551-8c37e693421d&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmsbizappslaunchevent.eventcore.com%2Fauth%2Flogin&response_type=id_token&scope=openid&state=OpenIdConnect.AuthenticationProperties%3Dy6DrNV2UsUk6m4ozCabRWuWMZ40Q4U0YN3r9bkukCeY0rscdZEkxG9Sq4sDPwP3hGCc5qj-DKeaXTxvk-nV4j-N86YZSHT93GL5JK3GucXPc3-R8TBMoJIKUec7MlmDdpHtWshDRGbzpSIhRW72s7oC6UmENsuaZhyReLO0IVbmajRxm8aTS98MixbmC4wckQt1BqCmayRL3a3JfqCPXC9MRX-boLRqmPUUQRA4tDr8NdB55_bxY1vY9jc_jrOr9RK97ZQ&response_mode=form_post&nonce=638137163177760245.ZmJiMzMyYmYtMTFmYS00YmE4LTk4ODMtZmQ5OGIwYWI2ZWY3ZTdjMjgxMDMtNzY5NC00MTg4LTg2ZGMtZjM2Njg3OWJkYWJl&appId=a49730c6-bed2-4b48-9551-8c37e693421d&extension_event_id=31675&x-client-SKU=ID_NET461&x-client-ver=5.3.0.0 for the Business Applications Launch Event on April 4 Join the https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/Business-Applications/ct-p/BizAppsNew Attach Licenses for Business Central Premium - now available!
Hot this week - Microsoft just launched two new Attach Licences for Business Central Premium - Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service, at $20 per application. For customers with Business Central premium this is an amazing value add - for only $20 more, customers can take advanced of these capabilities, leverage the integration available across our Dynamics solutions, and truly transform and round out their backend and front end operations with these solutions. For partners, the new pricing SKUs can help expand your business applications footprint and address the critical digital transformation needs of customers today. Learn more about the new offer details and eligibility criteria and reach out to your customers now with the ready to go email template in this partner kit. Happy selling! Angela Angela Reese Kawano | Senior Partner Marketing Manager (She/Her) Business Applications & Global Industry Marketing | Partner Ecosystem Team Email: mareesek@microsoft.com| Phone: 202.2776441 | www.linkedin.com/in/angela-reese-kawanoNo Customers in Partner Center
Dear community for a couple of days now, I don't see our customers/customers' subscriptions in Partner Center. Placed a support request three days ago but no reply yet. I do have all necessary permissions granted in Partner Center. Anybody else facing this issue? I could not even add a new customer (whole navigation bar and list disappeared) Any input highly appreciated 😉 cheers Daniel
