Category Licensing

Licensing of Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365 products.

Licensing

Price points of Power Platform (2022 pricing and licenses)

Microsoft doesn't provide a single page from where to look up the prices for each of the license types for various products included under the Power Platform umbrella. Since this information is spread out and offered in various different formats, I decided to create a landing page with the core price info as well as links to documentation that's been the source of this pricing information.

March 15, 2020
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Licensing

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform licensing FAQ, February 2020

There are certain details in Microsoft's licensing model for Dynamics 365 Team Members, Power Apps and environment capacity management that tend to raise questions among customers and partners. Here are answers to some of the licensing questions I've encountered during the past few months.

February 22, 2020
App Modules capacity environments Licensing Portals PowerApps

Licensing

New Team Member apps for Dynamics 365

In 2020 Release Wave 1, Microsoft is shipping new App Modules for Sales Team Member and Customer Service Team Member. Let's look at the Early Access features and see what you can do with these apps, prior to the coming technical enforcement of Team Member access rights.

February 7, 2020
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Licensing

Get ready for licensing enforcement in Dynamics 365

The tricky part about ensuring your solution design is aligned with the planned set of licenses that the system users will be assign is that there is often no way to technically validate this. Many aspects of the MS Business Appliciations licensing model nuances have been implemented only on paper. Things are about to change, as we'll see a specific access rights enforcement around the App Module concept.

January 27, 2020
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Analysis, Licensing

Licensing is NOT a security mechanism

Licensing remains a topic that no one claims to like yet everyone keeps on talking about. October 2019 saw what was undoubtedly the biggest number of changes to Microsoft Business Applications SKUs (i.e. items that MS sells), with the end…

October 28, 2019
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Features, Licensing

Sharing Apps Is Caring

A while ago there was an announcement made on the PowerApps team blog about “Share canvas apps with guests in your organization”. Launched in public preview, this feature makes it (almost) as simple to share apps with a guest user…

October 24, 2019
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Licensing

PowerApps licenses and a Dynamics 365 environment

Believe it or not, Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement applications from Microsoft are built on top of Power Platform. No, they didn’t originally start that way, but as the Citizen Application Platform technology from the PowerApps side merged with the former…

September 19, 2019

Analysis, Featured posts, Licensing

Licensing by consumption: pricing model of Power Platform online services

On the topic of Dynamics 365 and PowerApps licensing changes coming in October 2019, I earlier wrote about the biggest change in how Microsoft is separating the first party applications and the underlying platform in the new Per App pricing…

September 12, 2019
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Licensing, News and events

Application/Platform Separation in New PowerApps Licensing Model

Ever since Spring 2018 when the XRM and PowerApps platforms merged on a commercial level, I’ve found myself spending an ever increasing number of hours per week involved in licensing discussions and scenario planning. My initial exploration of the platform…

August 12, 2019
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Licensing, Tips

PowerApps “Starter” Plans Capabilities Demystified

There are many ways to get started with PowerApps on the cheap. What I mean by cheap here is the types of licenses that have certain limitations on what you’re allowed to do with the PowerApps platform and apps, in…

April 28, 2019
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