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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.
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.
July 2021 for MSPs: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse enters free public preview, Outlook meetings go online by default, Teams adds Fluid components, and Secure Score gets five Teams checks.
June 2021 for MSPs: E2EE arrives for 1:1 Teams calls, meetings can auto-record, recordings become searchable by transcript, and the first contact safety tip moves into anti-phishing policy.
May 2021 for MSPs: the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse service plan lands in Business Premium, external group chat hits GA with 250 participants, and reply-all storm protection becomes tunable.
