DOM reports and resources for understanding and Azure licensing considerations, such as the Azure Hybrid Benefit, which allows customers to apply Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance (SA) to reduce the cost of using that software in Azure services.

Latest Rules

Use the DOM Licensing Reference Set wiki to review the latest rules and rights for Azure licensing.

• Microsoft offers on-premises and hosted database offerings that support a variety of data types.
• They include SQL Server and a range of popular open-source products with various degrees of integration.
• Azure offerings provide a central hosted destination for enterprises to a variety of database formats.
• All choices continue to receive investment, updates, and more integration with other Azure services.

• Dynamics 365 Operations uses à la carte packaging for applications, add-ons, and other integrated services.
• Mapping user requirements to required licenses is a complex effort that must be maintained to control costs.
• License compliance requires considerable vigilance and manual review to avoid noncompliance issues.

Introduction

Most Microsoft 365 services can be used with Windows 10, macOS, iOS/iPadOS, and Android, but the capabilities offered by each service aren’t consistent across those platforms. It’s important to understand these two potential scenarios when considering licensing and deployment of Microsoft 365 management and security services:

Introduction

Power Platform is a marketing umbrella encompassing several services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI. Each service is licensed separately, but other licenses such as Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide limited rights to use them, and each service provides some rights to use the other services.