Microsoft Monthly Newsletter – March 2025

Azure-to-Azure ASR TCO calculator

Microsoft announce that there’s a new Azure Site Recovery (ASR) calculator to help you to estimate the total cost of ownership for ASR scenarios and to give you a detailed cost breakdown of the different components.

Find the announcement here: Azure updates | Microsoft Azure, which includes a link to download the Excel-spreadsheet calculator.

Exchange Online Tenant External Recipient Rate Limit (TERRL)

Microsoft introduce a new tenant-level outbound email limit based on the number of email licences that a tenant has. There’s a table showing sample limits with various licence counts, or you can work it out yourself using the provided formula – and useful FAQ – Introducing Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits | Microsoft Community Hub

Enforcement starts from 3 April, 2025

Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre

Microsoft announce that Copilot is now available in the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre for administrators to ask natural language questions as they tackle unfamiliar tasks. As long as an organisation has purchased 1 licence of Microsoft 365 Copilot, anyone with access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre can use Copilot in this way.

Retirement of Skype

Microsoft announce that the Skype client will only be available until 5 May, 2025 with, of course, the focus turning to the free flavour of Microsoft Teams.

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus

Microsoft announce that Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus is currently in preview and will be available in Spring 2025. Like the existing Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery capability it will be an Add-on licence for Windows 365 Enterprise. Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus improves on metrics and you can find a useful table comparing the two licences on the announcement page here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-365-disaster-recovery-plus-extends-cloud-pc-resilience/4387492