Microsoft Licensing Changes for January

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Chris van der Zwan

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Microsoft Product Terms

Privacy & Security Terms

  • Moved certain Privacy & Security Terms, which were previously located in the individual Product Offerings pages for Software, to the Privacy & Security Terms section of the Product Terms site. 
  • Added a new Software Products table to the “Exceptions to the DPA” section. This update was made to categorize similar terms together and improve the customer experience and discoverability of Privacy & Security terms.

Microsoft 365

  • Added eligible A plans for Microsoft 365 Cross-tenant User Data Migration prerequisites.

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting and XDR

  • Microsoft stated that they have added MCA table and updated License Prerequisite Table. My assumption is that they are still working on it…

1.1.1. License Prerequisites

LicenseLicense Prerequisites
Microsoft Defender Experts for HuntingMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2; Microsoft Defender for Office Plan 2; Microsoft Defender for Identity; Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps; Windows Enterprise E5/A5; Microsoft 365 E5/A5; Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Security; Microsoft 365 F5 Security + Compliance; Microsoft 365 E5/F5 Information Protection and Governance; Microsoft 365 F5 Security; Enterprise Mobility + Security E5/A5
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDRMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2; Microsoft Defender for Office Plan 2; Microsoft Defender for Identity; Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps; Microsoft 365 E5/A5; Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Security; Microsoft 365 F5 Security + Compliance; Microsoft 365 F5 Security
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDRMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2; Enterprise Microsoft Mobility + Security365 E5/A5; Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Security; Microsoft 365 F5 Security + Compliance; Microsoft 365 F5 Security

*May not be available in all sales channels

Microsoft Azure

  • Added clarification to Text-To-Speech (TTS) Services.

Azure AI Text-toSpeech text to speech (TTS) customServices 

Customer Data submitted to TTS Services: Customer represents and warrants that Customer has all necessary right, title, and interest to use all Customer’s Data submitted to TTS Services. 

TTS Service output use rights: For Customers of the paid tier TTS Service only, Customer may use the audio output of prebuilt neural voice voices generated using the TTS Service, including for commercial  

Customized TTS Services and use of Synthetic Voices

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