According to Marriam Webster Dictionary, the first known use of the word copilot (or co-pilot) was in 1927 and is defined as: “ … a qualified pilot who assists or relieves the pilot but is not in command”. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copilot) In the modern-day context of Microsoft, my interpretation is that ‘Copilot’…

Microsoft Defender (and Microsoft 365 Defender) includes a range of services to mitigate risk and protect against threats throughout a customer’s environment. In Part 1, I offered a detailed look at Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Defender 365 applications and in this post, I’ll cover Microsoft Defender for Servers, Containers, Database…

Microsoft Defender (and Microsoft 365 Defender) includes a range of services to mitigate risk and protect against threats throughout a customer’s environment. They are suites of products and services designed to protect organisations at any endpoint — an endpoint being any item within an infrastructure (virtual or physical) that directly…

In a step-away from writing about operational and programmatic functionality of Microsoft licensing and how changes may impact organisations in the way they ought to approach software asset management processes and methodology, the recent announcement of the forthcoming general availability release of Microsoft Teams Premium add-on license, I believe, warrants…

In close pursuit of my last blog: Microsoft CSP — the New Commerce Experience — one year on, Microsoft announced a foreign exchange rate alignment to accommodate fluctuations of value against the US Dollar for cloud programme licenses to create greater price harmonisation globally. …

In the second of a series of video chats and blogs from Version 1’s Microsoft license consulting team about the component parts that make-up the Microsoft Power Platform licensing models, my colleague Richard Ojo and I focus on the Power Platform governance and controls. The accompanying discussion with Richard Ojo…

The changes made to the Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) programme in February 2022 (price increases for month-on-month committed subscriptions or the annual lock-in and no flexibility to reduce subscription quantities without penalty for the duration of annually committed subscriptions) will, by March 2023, have been rolled-out to all CSP…

October’s Microsoft Monthly update was a busy month for announcements with the license changes for Windows Server (https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/ForallSoftware) and the new Flexible Virtualisation Benefit. My colleague, Principal Microsoft License Consultant Karl O’Doherty and I will focus on the Flexible Virtualisation Benefit in this post and video chat below: This…

With the introduction of term and policy enforcement changes in the Microsoft CSP (April 2022), we have recently encountered a number of customers who could have benefited from a more proactive license management approach from both their own internal resources and their Microsoft Partner. …