
M365 Roundup, April 2024: Teams Leaves the Bundle
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.
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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.

Most MSPs run a security checklist without a framework behind it. These five maturity questions show the gap, and a NIST CSF 2.0 self-assessment mapped to Microsoft 365 controls closes it.

A working checklist for the new Outlook: signatures and Bookings, schedule sends and recalls, sweep rules, the security toggles users should know, and the Microsoft 365 integrations built in.

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.

Microsoft 365 Copilot costs $360 per user upfront. At a $70k salary, the investment breaks even at 54 minutes saved per month, and two hours saved returns over 100 percent ROI.

A license-by-license matrix of the native security and compliance features that protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data, plus the add-ons that get Business plans most of the way to E5.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 hits GA through CSP with seat minimums removed, Lighthouse gains Copilot sales tools, Intune trims audit log retention to one year, and Teams ships nine features.

Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot both include AI meeting recaps, then diverge fast. Here is what each license covers, what only Copilot does, and how the billing terms differ.

Teams ships channel archiving and a meeting-chat leak control, Intune previews a rebuilt Devices experience, and Microsoft sets the new commerce migration timeline for GCC, education, and nonprofit.

Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies land in tenants automatically, Entra ID preps device-bound passkeys, Ignite floods Teams with Copilot, and Intune unveils two paid add-on capabilities.