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Adobe licensing risk is no longer static.

Here is what it means for enterprise governance: https://hubs.li/Q04yBfD30

Microsoft has removed Teams Events from Teams Premium. If you bought it for events, your renewal will be a downgrade.

This week, MC1479512 was made available worldwide. The Teams Events features are now divided into two categories:

1. The Foundational category includes the Business, Frontline and student Education plans.
2. The Advanced category requires Teams Enterprise, that is, Office 365 E1, E3, E5 or Microsoft 365 E3, E5, E7.

The new Teams Premium licence sits in neither category. Most event features moved to Teams Enterprise in April, so the Premium licence you buy today includes none of them. If you bought before 1 April, you're covered until your term ends. The change takes effect at renewal, not rollout.

Capacity has changed: Foundational plans allow 1,000 registered attendees, Advanced plans 3,000. For more, you'll need an Attendee Capacity Pack (5,000-100,000, one per organizer).

The key question is whether the people organizing your all-hands and customer webinars have the right licence, and whether anyone has checked the size of the events already scheduled for Q1.

Two buckets, one expiry date, and no warning at the door.

Compare your organizers with the new tiers before someone finds out in front of 4,000 people: https://hubs.li/Q04yqPtD0

Microsoft is about to offer 50% off Copilot. You need to commit to 10,000 seats to qualify.
Per The Information, Microsoft told its sales teams this week that enterprise discounts start as early as October. Roughly 30% for commitments over 1,000 seats. Up to 50% over 10,000. None of it is published on Microsoft's own price list.

👉Two things worth noticing before anyone gets excited.

1. The 30% tier isn't new. Microsoft has been running a 30% discount for 1,000 to 9,999 seat buys, and that offer expires September 30th. (What's actually new is the 50% tier, and the ceiling it puts on the conversation. The only lever that moves your number is buying more of a product your people may not have opened yet.)

2. The second thing sits underneath the discount. Microsoft's own spokesperson confirmed the model is expanding to combine seat subscriptions with usage-based revenue. Some features in the new Copilot app carry consumption charges on top of the seat price. You get a discount on the line item you can forecast. You pick up a line item you can't.

Under 1,000 seats, none of this reaches you anyway. Your base M365 licenses still went up on July 1st.

Cheaper seats. Metered features. Same invoice trajectory.

If your renewal lands this October, the number that protects you isn't the discount Microsoft offers. It's how many of your seats anyone is actually using: https://hubs.li/Q04ycSBK0

Software audits are going up this year. That part isn’t changing.
The real steps we follow when an audit hits:
• One single point of contact — always
• No raw data handed over, ever
• Scope, timelines, and metrics challenged early
• Your own ELP built before you react to theirs
• Everything documented so nothing “drifts” mid-audit

When you do this properly, audits stop being panic events.

Use our Software Audit guide to prepare. https://hubs.ly/Q04x-64L0

By 2030, tech leaders won’t just manage software spend. They’ll weaponize it.

Industry veteran, Mike Austin, explains what tech leaders need to know not to fall behind: https://hubs.li/Q04xML3x0

Treat your Oracle Java "Security Patch" call as a licensing audit.
Here is why: https://hubs.li/Q04xtq4Z0

Uncontrolled Microsoft growth rarely looks dramatic month to month. It becomes very obvious after budgets are locked and leverage is gone.

The teams that stay in control don’t react — they model multiple scenarios early and choose their outcome.

Our Microsoft HealthCheck is your next step to evaluate your risk: https://hubs.li/Q04x9CN80