Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

In my previous post, I tried to illustrate how Microsoft licensing works. Of course, a lot more information is already share by Microsoft in Docs - have look for the latest from Microsoft. In this post I try to illustrate how to add a new subscription from Microsoft 365 Admin center , or otherwise called as Office 365 Admin center (or) Dynamics 365 Admin center - all of them most probably will lead you to https://admin.microsoft.com   Basically to assign one of your Organization user available in a particular tenant to a SAAS based cloud offering , you would need to go through the Admin centre. The Organization AD administrator would have access to this and can delegate it to others by creating/updating the AD user accounts accordingly.  Steps to add a subscription:   1. Sign into the Microsoft 365 admin center ( https://admin.microsoft.com ) with your global administrator account. The Home page would look something like below:  2. From the ...

Now with all the Cloud offerings which Microsoft provides to their customers/users, it has become a little more important to understand few terminologies around Licensing. The primary ones for me were:  Organizations  Subscriptions Licenses User accounts and Tenants Where an Organization could be any Business entity. Let's take the example as Walmart is an Organization.  And a Subscription is an agreement the Walmart made with Microsoft, the terms, the agreed price, the offers/rebates from Microsoft and till what time the Subscription is valid - all such elements are covered under this. Now Licenses are needed on top of Subscription (sometimes subscription comes along with certain number of free/included licenses). So whenever a license under a particular subscription is allocated to a Walmart user, only that he/she can use the Cloud offering.  So that explains what User accounts consist of - Users and user groups within the Active directory...