Dynamics 365 and Power Platforms - Licensing and Enforcement Deadline Extensions
Wednesday 13th May 2020
To ensure that your customers have ample time to prepare and respond to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Microsoft are taking steps to help ensure their business continuity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. As part of this effort, Microsoft are extending upcoming license and technical enforcement deadlines as follows:
• Dynamics 365 Team Members: Your existing Dynamics 365 customers who acquired the Team Members license prior to October 1, 2018 can continue to renew existing Team Members subscription through December 31, 2020 (extended from June 30, 2020). Starting January 1, 2021, your renewing customers will need to transition to the new Team Members license.
• Dynamics 365 storage & prod/non-prod instances: Existing Dynamics 365 customers can continue to renew existing storage and production/non-production instance use rights through December 31, 2020 (extended from June 30, 2020). Starting January 1, 2021, they will need to transition to the new model. In the meantime, they can use their existing storage and production/non-production instances.
• Dynamics 365 portals: Existing Dynamics 365 customers can continue to renew portal use rights through December 31, 2020 (extended from June 30, 2020). Starting January 1, 2021, they will need to adhere to the new portal licensing use rights. See more info here.
• Dynamics 365 Plan customers: Renewing Dynamics 365 Plan, Customer Engagement Plan, and Unified Operations Plan customers can use qualifying offers to transition through June 30, 2021 (extended from June 30, 2020). To learn more about our updated Dynamics 365 packaging model please go here.
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