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Unannounced price increase Power Apps Premium?
In the September pricelist, there's a pricing change on the Power Apps Premium licenses, as you can see in screenshot a price increase of +10%. But there has been 0 communication or announcement on this. Documentation on the pricing website, Learn and License Guide still shows the old pricing: Power Apps Licensing and Pricing | Low-Code AI App Builder / https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2085130 / Is the price increase correct? If so, then why was there no communication with regards to it? And if not correct, when is this going to be adjusted and fixed for Power Apps Premium licenses ordered past 1st of September? Cheers, MartijnSolvedMartijnElfersSep 10, 2026Bronze Contributor125Views0likes1CommentLarge Dataverse Database Migration
Hello folks, Hoping someone has come across this challenge before - customer has a 1.5Tb+ prod database that needs to be reduced drastically. Is there a Support request route we can raise to create a DB copy into the customers Azure SQL? this would be the quickest route to get a copy before running bulk deletions. Long Term Retention wont be enough in this case either. Any thoughts welcome. TIA55Views0likes1CommentBusiness Central on premise subscription vs Business Central Cloud
If BC on-prem subscription provides dual use rights, why would customer buy BC cloud when they can abuy BC on prem subscription for less and use it for cloud? Or am I missing something.MLollenSep 03, 2026Brass Contributor3.2KViews0likes8CommentsBusiness Central Device Licensing - Service Management
I posted this in the CSP area but realized this is where it should have been. Reposting. Suggestion...there really needs to be a category for licensing questions...and ideally a subcategory for Dynamics products...both cloud and on-prem. I'm posting this under the CSP category because I couldn't find a more suitable one. As a side note, understanding and figuring out licensing for various scenarios on the Business Central side is one of the most frustrating things we have to do. Microsoft really needs to form a dedicated licensing team that understands licensing thoroughly across all products to provide clear answers on these scenarios. We have a prospect for a new Business Central implementation that has a large number of field technicians. Our plan was to use Anveo's mobile app for field service which we've implemented previously on NAV. I reached out to Anveo to confirm pricing and they informed us that EVERY FIELD TECHNICIAN WILL NEED A FULL PREMIUM USER LICENSE. This is insane! We are priced out of this deal based on licensing. I can accept that a Team Member license is not sufficient here, but the fact that we can't use device licenses boggles my mind. We are priced out of competing in this space. I'm not even sure what I'm looking for here...I suppose confirmation that a full license is in fact required here as a first step. Microsoft seriously needs to review licensing rules for scenarios like this ASAP to reposition things to compete in markets such as this one. Our customer absolutely cannot afford a tier one ERP system like F&O...and this licensing policy will have us priced way higher than our competition in the tier two space. Very frustrating.robepimaticSep 02, 2026Brass Contributor2KViews1like7CommentsBusiness Central Device license
I thought customers must have at least one Essentials or Premium SAL when purchasing Device license, but I can't find any description of this prerequisite in the license guide nor license term. To purchase a Team Member license, customers must have Dynamics 365 user SLs other than the Team Members SL according to the license term according to the license term. https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/en-us/productoffering/MicrosoftDynamics365Services/MCA#Addons Is this not same for Device license or are customers allowed to purchase Device license only without other user licenses? If customers are required to have other user licenses to purchase one Device license, can we apply a 30day-trial license (Business Central Premium) for the initial month?Yuko_MizunoAug 31, 2026Brass Contributor314Views0likes1CommentLicensing a Dataverse environment for external users
Looking for some advice and opinions please. This is for a standalone Dataverse environment. Not Dynamics 365, or Power Apps, or Power Pages. The question is about using a Dataverse environment with the native Dataverse web APIs, where a portal is developed (not Power Pages) that allows the external users to interface (read/write) data. My opinion is that because this is not Dynamics 365 and Power Pages are not being utilised to facilitate the access then there is no requirement for user (D365, Power App, or Power Pages capacity) licensing. I would still need Dataverse capacity licenses, but that is all. Appreciate any thought and insights. Thanks, NickSolvedNick_BeacroftAug 28, 2026Steel Contributor522Views1like6CommentsGuidance on licensing requirements for using managed environments
Is it sufficient to have a per-app premium licence assigned when using a managed environment or is a per-user premium licence required? I have read this guidance from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/managed-environment-licensing "Every user running an app in a managed environment must have one of the following licenses: a Power Apps Premium, a Power Automate Premium license, or a Dynamics 365 Enterprise license that gives premium Power Apps usage rights *. If you use capacity-based licenses, a managed environment must have Power Apps per app plans such as app passes allocated to it. Use of Power Apps capabilities included with Dynamics 365 Pro licenses must be only within the context of the licensed Dynamics 365 application." Does the line that I have highlighted in red mean that you can in fact use per-app licences? or is this referring to something else? Thanks RosierbrotherwoodAug 14, 2026Occasional Reader156Views0likes1CommentD365 Finance/Finance Premium mix&match for purchasing minimum?
Hi, can someone confirm if it's obligatory to meet the purchasing minimum requirements for both Finance and Finance Premium, i.e. if we purchase 20 regular Finance licenses, can we purchase only 5 Finance Premium or does it have to be the minimum 10? I've found resources online that say these 2 SKUs can be mixed & matched, but I can't seem to find definitive confirmation of this in the D365 Licensing Guide or any of MSFT resources. Thanks!SolveddkosanovicAug 07, 2026Copper Contributor392Views1like6Comments
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