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EA to MCA Legal Terms and Strategy Updated: March 18, 2026 Legal terms shift in Microsoft’s favor when a customer moves from a traditional Enterprise Agreement… more Teams Enterprise Gains Events and Places from Premium March 17, 2026 Some features of Teams Premium are moving to Teams Enterprise at no additional cost, including… more Evaluating Digital Sovereignty Options   March 16, 2026 For many enterprises, digital sovereignty is highly valuable, and Microsoft offers several products that claim… more SQL Server 2016/2017 BI Migration: Destinations Point to Power BI March 13, 2026 Power BI is Microsoft’s direction for organizations migrating business intelligence workloads (SSRS and SSAS) off… more Deciphering Power Apps Licensing Updated: March 12, 2026 Power Apps, a low-code platform for building business apps, offers some entitlements with Microsoft 365… more Microsoft 365 Backup Targets Exchange and SharePoint Online Using a PAYG model Updated: March 10, 2026 Microsoft 365 Backup improves policies and management but falls short of comprehensive M365 service backup. SharePoint Embedded: Document Management Without SharePoint Updated: March 9, 2026 SharePoint Embedded provides a PAYG document management infrastructure. Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: March 6, 2026 Copilot is an umbrella brand applied to a range of Microsoft technologies, most of which… more Purview Adaptive Scopes Ease Policy Management March 5, 2026 Purview adaptive scopes offer flexibility for administrators responsible for defining retention policies and communication compliance… more Microsoft 365 Education: Differs from Enterprise by Degrees Updated: March 2, 2026 Microsoft 365 Education offers a collection of suites that largely mirror Microsoft 365 Enterprise suites,… more Microsoft 365 Government: What’s in the Box? Updated: March 2, 2026 Microsoft 365 Government offers regulatory compliance, but at the cost of missing features, which are… more Azure: Know Reservations Updated: March 2, 2026 Customers can save money on Azure by committing in advance to pay, but miscalculating can… more Dynamics 365 Commerce Retiring Multiple Features; Moving to Paid AI March 2, 2026 Dynamics 365 Commerce is retiring Ratings and Reviews, and Recommendations features, likely replacing them with… more And Acquisition for All: Microsoft 365 Self-Service Purchase March 2, 2026 End users can directly purchase several Microsoft services, circumventing corporate controls and agreements. Six Steps from On-Premises to Full Cloud March 2, 2026 The move from on-premises Active Directory to the Microsoft-hosted Entra ID infrastructure is a gradual… more M365 Agent Value Could Be Revealed by New Agent Dashboard March 1, 2026 The Agent Dashboard in Viva Insights shows metrics of deployed Microsoft 365-based agents across an… more Services Increasingly Expanding Beyond Microsoft 365 Suites Updated: February 27, 2026 Several services that would have once universally been included in Microsoft 365 suites have now… more Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit Doesn’t Have Copilot Studio Limitations February 24, 2026 The Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit is Copilot Studio alternative for pro developers building AI agents… more Best Practices for Preserving Data While Removing Microsoft 365 Users Updated: February 23, 2026 Preserve users’ data before removing licenses and deleting accounts. Get Access to over 6,480 Reports Atlas Membership