Topic
Exchange Online enforces tenant-wide outbound email limits, E5 Security arrives as a Business Premium add-on, and the Report Message add-in enters maintenance mode.
A 5% increase on annual NCE plans paid monthly, Teams Phone going up, Copilot gaining monthly billing and a free chat tier, plus stackable promos. What to lock in before April 1, 2025.
New Outlook migration turns opt-out for SMBs in January 2025, monthly billing on annual terms gets a 5% markup, Viva Goals gets a retirement date, and Teams ships ten quality-of-life features.
Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts get archived behind reactivation and storage fees, or deleted outright. Here is the math and the four ways to respond.
Mailbox full tickets do not need an Exchange Online Plan 2 upsell. Online archiving plus auto-expanding archive grows a mailbox to 1.5TB on licensing many tenants already own.
July 2024 ships the new Microsoft Entra Suite, auto-enables Microsoft-managed MFA Conditional Access policies, archives unlicensed OneDrive accounts after 90 days, and adds dynamic watermarking and scheduled Copilot prompts.
June 2024 brings token protection and the Entra PowerShell module to preview, hardware-backed device attestation and Config Refresh in Intune, expanded Copilot prerequisites, and a batch of Teams and Outlook updates.
Teams unbundles from Microsoft 365 worldwide, Exchange Online announces a 2,000 external recipient limit and the end of Basic auth SMTP, and Copilot reaches more SKUs. April 2024, by product.
Microsoft unbundled Teams from Microsoft 365 worldwide in April 2024. Existing subscriptions keep Teams; net-new quotes need a decision. Here is the SKU map, the pricing math, and the catch.
Copilot for Security goes GA April 1 with pay-as-you-go pricing, NCE subscriptions become transferable mid-term, Restricted SharePoint Search arrives, and Teams ships voice isolation.
The unified Planner app replaces Tasks in Teams, Azure Information Protection Plan 1 ends sale, Intune adds macOS setup and Autopilot controls, and Copilot reaches SharePoint, OneDrive, and mobile.
Lighthouse now flags which customers are ready to buy Microsoft 365 Copilot. Here is how to size the revenue, time the pitch to NCE renewals, and open with an AI readiness assessment.
