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January 2022 for MSPs: New Commerce goes live for M365 and D365, Teams Phone with Calling Plan replaces Business Voice, Defender for Business heads into Business Premium, and Walkie Talkie hits iOS.
NCE's 72-hour cancellation window, term commitments, and price rules belong in a Microsoft addendum to your MSA. Here is every clause to include, as of January 2022.
NCE multiplies renewal dates, splits one Microsoft SKU into multiple rate plans, and bans mid-term decrements. Here is how to structure PSA products, agreements, and alerts, as of January 2022.
A two-line formula tells you whether a customer belongs on monthly or annual NCE terms. For seat counts that swing, monthly can beat annual even at the 20% premium. As of January 2022.
Microsoft released GDAP for M365 workloads in January 2022. This walkthrough covers requesting the relationship, customer approval, and the security group step most MSPs miss.
Partner Center's Security Center now reports on every DAP relationship, including sign-in activity and stale connections. Here is where to find it and what to cut, as of January 2022.
December 2021 for MSPs: DAP monitoring and self-service removal go live, GDAP hits technical preview for January 2022, SMTP DANE comes to Exchange Online, and Teams quiets its activity feed.
November 2021 for MSPs: Defender for Business lands in Business Premium at no extra cost, NCE promos slip to January 2022, GDAP is announced, and CSP partners get Azure AD P2 free.
GDAP replaces permanent Global Admin access to every customer tenant with granular, time-bound roles. Here is what changes for MSPs, announced November 2021.
As of November 2021, Microsoft Defender for Business adds near-Plan-2 EDR to Microsoft 365 Business Premium at no extra cost. Here is what MSPs get, what it costs standalone, and the catch.
October 2021 for MSPs: tenants get 30-day notices before basic auth and SMTP AUTH shut off, Message Trace leaves the SCC, DKIM setup gets simpler, and Authenticator adds number matching.
Microsoft starts permanently disabling basic auth on October 1, 2022, with surprise 12-to-48-hour shutoffs in early 2022. Three multi-tenant PowerShell scripts show you what will break.
September 2021 for MSPs: NCE brings a 20% monthly premium to seat-based CSP, basic auth gets an October 2022 kill date with surprise shutoffs sooner, and the classic EAC starts winding down.
Intune app protection policies containerize Microsoft 365 data on personal iOS and Android phones with no device enrollment. A full walkthrough of the policy build and what users actually see.
Microsoft's New Commerce Experience brings annual lock-ins, a 20% premium on monthly terms, and March 2022 price increases to seat-based CSP. The full breakdown plus an MSP action plan.
August 2021 for MSPs: Azure AD Graph and MSOnline license cmdlets retire June 30, 2022, Teams recordings start auto-expiring at 60 days, and channel renames finally sync to SharePoint.
Windows 365 pricing went public on August 2, 2021. Where Business beats Enterprise, when AVD saves up to 58%, and the three customer scenarios where Cloud PC earns its roughly $30 per user.
Azure Cost Management gives MSPs spend visibility, budgets, and alert-driven automation under Azure Plan. Here is how to set it up per customer and avoid the month-end invoice surprise.
