June 27, 2025
WHAT'S HAPPENING: 3 Year Subscription Terms Now Available for Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 on CSP
WHEN: June 1, 2025
On June 1, 2025, Microsoft launched three-year subscription terms for E3 and E5 (with or without Teams) and Teams Enterprise under the CSP program. These plans will be available for purchase with three-year upfront or triennial/annual billing options. Following this, on July 1, 2025, a three-year subscription for Microsoft 365 E5 Security and E5 Compliance will also be added. You will be able to change your subscription term either mid-term or at renewal.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Pricing increase on select on-premises Microsoft server products
WHEN: July 1, 2025
Along with the release of Exchange Server SE and Skype for Business SE, Microsoft will be increasing the price of SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and Skype for Business Server by 10%. Additionally, the price of the Core CAL Suite and Enterprise CAL Suite will increase on August 1, 2025, by 15% and 20% respectively.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Overage Security Compute Units for Security Copilot now available
WHEN: April 9, 2025
Security Copilot operates on a provisioned and overage capacity. Provisioned capacity is billed by the hour while the overage capacity is billed on usage. Customers can now flexibly provision Security Compute Units (SCUs) to accommodate regular workloads and adjust them anytime without long-term commitments. Overage units are billed on demand and can be set as unlimited or a maximum amount. Normally, billing is calculated on hourly blocks based on provisioned capacity rather than by 60-minute increments, with a minimum of one hour. Any usage consumed within the same hour is billed as a full SCU for provisioned capacity, regardless of the start or end times within that hour. For overage units, SCUs are billed up to one decimal increments for the exact consumed units and are not rounded up to whole numbers. This means that you're charged precisely based on your usage (to one decimal place).
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Purview Data Security Investigations now in preview
WHEN: April 26, 2025
As of late April 2025, Purview Data Security Investigations is now in preview. This product allows customers to investigate data security, risk and leak cases faster by leveraging AI-driven insights. To try DSI, your M365 Global Admin must activate Purview Pay-as-you-go-billing and provision Security Compute Units. Billing for DSI will be based on a combination of storage meter and AI capacity models, which you can read more about here.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: New Pay-as-you-go meters introduced for Purview
WHEN: May 1, 2025
On May 1st, 2025, Microsoft announced new PAYG meters for Purview billing. This evolution offers a mix of entitlement (per-user-per-month, PUPM) and consumptive (pay-as-you-go, PAYG) options to best meet customer needs. The new Purview meters are as follows with corresponding prices noted in USD.
Note that Standard Audit will be billed under the PAYG model for third-party AI applications, like ChatGPT Enterprise. All Microsoft first party applications such as Microsoft 365 applications, Fabric, and Microsoft first party AI apps like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot or AI applications custom-built using Copilot Studio are inclusive of Audit Standard. Audit Standard will retain audit records for 180 days.
Customers using Purview value in the below scenarios will activate one or more of the new meters and will accrue charges on the Azure subscription linked to your Microsoft 365 tenant. If you do not have a linked Azure subscription to your Microsoft 365 tenant these metered capabilities will stop working on June 30, 2025. More information is available on the Azure pricing page for Purview.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Azure AD External Identities P2 has been retired
WHEN: May 1, 2025
Effective May 1, 2025, Microsoft has stopped selling Azure AD External Identities P2 to new customers, in preparation for its retirement in B2C tenants on March 15, 2026. Microsoft recommends choosing an alternate provider for ID Protection for Azure AD B2C to have in place for continuity. Note that Azure AD B2C retirement will be no sooner than 2030 and ID Protection will still be available in your workforce tenant. Microsoft has provided the list below of alternative solutions which integrate with Azure AD B2C:
Deduce: an identity verification and proofing provider focused on stopping account takeover and registration fraud. It helps combat identity fraud and creates a trusted user experience.
eID-Me : an identity verification and decentralized digital identity solution for Canadian citizens. It enables organizations to meet Identity Assurance Level (IAL) 2 and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.
Experian: an identity verification and proofing provider that performs risk assessments based on user attributes to prevent fraud.
IDology: an identity verification and proofing provider with ID verification solutions, fraud prevention solutions, compliance solutions, and others.
Jumio: an ID verification service, which enables real-time automated ID verification, safeguarding customer data.
LexisNexis: a profiling and identity validation provider that verifies user identification and provides comprehensive risk assessment based on user's device.
Onfido: a document ID and facial biometrics verification solution that allows companies to meet Know Your Customer and identity requirements in real time.
If you're no longer interested in using ID Protection in your B2C tenant and wish to switch over to the Azure AD External Identities P1 meter, please refer to this documentation for instructions to change your pricing tier.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Retirement of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management announced
WHEN: October 1, 2025
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is no longer available for purchase, in preparation for the retirement of this product as of October 1, 2025. Existing customers will have access to the product until this date. The planned changes around Microsoft Entra Permissions Management will not affect existing CIEM capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. All permissions management functionality including identity discovery, permissions visibility, and entitlement governance, will remain fully available in Defender Cloud Security Posture Management.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Price increase announced for Dynamics 365 Business Central
WHEN: October 14, 2025
Effective October 1, 2025, Microsoft will be increasing its pricing on Dynamics 365 Business Central, as shown below (in USD MSRP)
To coincide with the price increase, they will also increase the storage entitlement included with each per user license. The updated prices apply to new subscriptions and to existing subscriptions upon their first renewal on or after October 1, 2025.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Updates to Windows Autopatch
WHEN: March 31, 2025
Previously, customers licensed for Windows Education and Business Premium only had access to a subset of Windows Autopatch features. Microsoft has now expanded these rights so that organizations with Windows Education and Business Premium licenses can take advantage of:
- Automatic security updates
- Easy and safe update configuration
- Detailed reporting capabilities
- Flexible and intelligent Windows Autopatch Groups
Additionally, what was formerly called "Windows Update for Business" has now been renamed to "Windows Update client policies". This is a change in name only, and there will be no change to functionality.
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Microsoft 365 Business Premium/Office 365 E1 nonprofit grants to be retired for CSP and Web Direct
WHEN: July 1, 2025
Effective July 1, 2025 Microsoft Business Premium and Office 365 E1 grant offers will be retired for customers who have acquired via CSP or Web Direct channels. The Microsoft 365 Business Premium/Office 365 E1 grant offer will be discontinued for customers on their next renewal after July 1, 2025. Existing grant recipients can continue service through their next renewal on or after July 1, 2025. Microsoft will continue to provide up a grant of up to 300 granted licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Basic and discounts of up to 75 percent on many Microsoft 365 offers to nonprofits.
There is no change to Office 365 E1 grant on EA agreements, Azure grants, or any other pricing on nonprofit offers at this time.
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