Effective November 1, 2021, the following name changes of Microsoft Azure products take place: Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT Microsoft Defender for IoT Microsoft Azure Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Azure Security Center + Azure Defender Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Azure Defender for Storage
Effective October 6, 2021, Scope-level management of the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit is available. Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) is a licensing benefit that helps you reduce Azure costs by using your on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance (SA). AHB for
Effective September 20, 2021, a new reservation scoping option for Microsoft Azure Reservations is in public preview: Management Group Scope. When you purchase an Azure Reservation, you choose a scope for it which defines where it may be used: within a specific Resource Group,
Effective September 1, 2021, a new Microsoft Intune per-device for Enterprise offer is available, that helps Enterprise organizations manage devices that are assigned to an authenticated user (i.e., not used by multiple authenticated users). Microsoft Intune is the most comprehensive unified endpoint management platform
Effective July 30, 2021, Microsoft PlayFab is available within Azure through Enterprise Agreements (EA). PlayFab is a complete back-end platform for live game development with managed game services, real-time analytics, and LiveOps. PlayFab’s easy-to-use managed service is built on Azure. Customers can only transact
Effective June 7, 2021, Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is rebranded as Azure Virtual Desktop. There are several new features in preview and a new licensing option including a no-cost promotional period. Users licensed with Microsoft 365 E3/E5/F3/Business Premium, Windows 10 E3/E5 or Windows 10
Effective immediately, Cygna Labs’ Cygna Auditor offers organizations that adopt Microsoft 365 and continue to have on-premises infrastructure an audit and compliance reporting solution that can monitor all activity and changes in a single console. The solution provides comprehensive change auditing and alerts on
Effective November 17, 2020, Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux is generally available after a preview phase. This means that customers can bring their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions to a virtual machine in Azure and just pay
Effective October 6, 2020, Microsoft Azure DevOps Server 2020 is released. Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with your existing integrated development environment (IDE) or editor,
Microsoft Risk Assessments are services designed to help your organization identify and mitigate security risks within Microsoft technology implementations as part of a Risk Assessment Program (RAP). With data being collected remotely, an expert analyzes the gathered data to create a findings report containing remediation recommendations and discusses it with
Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud platform that offers a growing collection of integrated services for organizations. This guide will help you navigate Azure’s licensing landscape effectively, ensuring you can optimize costs and maximize the benefits of its services. What is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft Azure is a versatile cloud
In March of 2025, Microsoft announced meter price reductions in Copilot Studio, that make using custom agents for non-Microsoft 365 Copilot users more affordable. Also, deep reasoning capabilities join both Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot that allow the AI to think longer about prompts and give better answers.