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Modern Workspace field notes
Reviewed Modern Workspace field notes by Michal Jatczak. Each public note includes its evidence, test context and a check you can run.
7 reviewed notes
A CSP partner may not sell to itself or an affiliate: Microsoft names two own-use routes instead
Microsoft's CSP documentation says partners are barred by contract from selling Microsoft or third-party offers to themselves or an affiliate as end customer. The same page names two own-use routes: a Shared Services tenant for Azure, or a separate tenant bought through another CSP partner.
Windows 11 24H2 stops receiving updates a year earlier on Pro than on Enterprise, from the identical build
Windows 11 version 24H2 ends updates on 2026-10-13 for the Pro family and on 2027-10-12 for the Enterprise family, from one table row and one identical build. Count the fleet by edition, not by build, before the earlier date arrives.
Auto-renew off without an explicit cancel bills as an Extended Service Term
In the Microsoft CSP program, setting an EST-eligible subscription to auto-renew false with no explicit cancel instruction converts it to a paid Extended Service Term that renews monthly. The API confirms the cancelled state first and a background job reverses it, so the read-back has to happen the next day.
A Purview hold does not stop an unpaid OneDrive being deleted at day 365
Since 1 July 2026 an unlicensed OneDrive that is neither relicensed nor covered by unlicensed-account billing is subject to deletion after 365 cumulative unpaid days, whatever Purview retention or hold sits on it, and it drops out of eDiscovery at day 275. This note gives the read-only check.
Annual or month-to-month: the New Commerce term is a 20 percent decision
Under Microsoft New Commerce, the same Microsoft 365 seat costs about 20 percent more on a month-to-month term than on the annual term. The term you pick is a pricing decision on its own, before any tier change.
The licence you keep paying for after the seat goes dark
License waste in Microsoft 365 has two honest layers: seats you can reclaim from hard data today, and a term premium you can model but not read from Graph. Here is how I separate them so the number I quote is defensible.
The Microsoft 365 July 2026 price change is really about commitment term
Microsoft reset Microsoft 365 list prices on 1 July 2026. The headline seat numbers moved a little; the commitment term moved a lot. Here are the confirmed figures and the tenant check to run before the next renewal.