I have been covering Microsoft business applications and low-code product licensing topics for many years now. Both in my personal blog, as well as numerous social posts on LinkedIn. This information is of the kind where I find myself constantly having to return back to my earlier writings, to reference the details.
“Maybe there should be a dedicated site for this content?” Well, now there is! Introducing: licensing.guide.
As the name suggests, one of the resources that everyone working with Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Copilot Studio needs to regularly review is the latest licensing guide PDF document from Microsoft. I have a collection of bookmarks for licensing related pages, of course, yet I still found myself googling for the latest files way too often.
Now, there’s a better way. I have built a Resources page for both myself and anyone else who needs to quickly get the latest files from Microsoft, or access the most important documentation pages on MS Learn. Instead of collecting private bookmarks in my browser, I’ll be including the links here for everyone to access.
The Licensing Guide website is not going to be just a static collection of links, though. I intend to use this site as the place to write blog posts about both the latest news around Microsoft product licensing, as well as sharing my analysis and speculations about where the commercial offering from MS may be heading. There are already aritcles in the blog section, covering hot topics like Microsoft Agent 365 and the licensing models of the agentic AI era.
I make this information freely available to readers as way of contributing back to the amazing Microsoft business apps community that has supported my work for the past 20 years already. Licensing in particular is an area that not many professionals out there feel comfortable talking about publicly. I want to show that it is not a “forbidden” topic, and that it’s in fact an essential element of the solution architecture for business apps and automations.
The guides and the blog posts naturally cannot answer every specific licensing scenario that MS customers (and partners) will encounter. I am more than happy to offer 1-to-1 advisory services to help answer questions and optimize the way you license your Microsoft-based business systems. Feel free to reach out or book an appointment and let’s talk!
