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Have Microsoft Licenses? Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft New Commerce Experience (NCE)

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If you haven’t heard, changes are coming to Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience (NCE) on March 1st, 2022.

To keep up with the demand for cloud-based solutions and services, Microsoft introduced the “seat-based” model with the New Commerce Experience. NCE is the new way for invoicing subscription-based cloud solutions to accelerate digital growth and for customers to have better-aligned pricing and tools to support their digital transformation journey.

These changes can be confusing for your business to navigate—especially the pricing changes around certain Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licenses. That’s why VPLS has created this quick FAQ to answer your most-asked questions about the upcoming changes.

Have other questions or want to discuss your specific license environment with our Microsoft licensing specialists? Simply contact the VPLS team.

No. If you are interested in switching your subscription to New Commerce Experience (NCE), let us know and we will handle the subscription migration for you.

You can lock in price protection before the price increase in March 2022 by purchasing an annual commitment on New Commerce Experience or renewing at the current legacy pricing.

Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, and Power Platform.

While there are no price changes related to the expansion of New Commerce Experience, Microsoft has announced price increases to the following SKUs starting on March 1st, 2022:

Enterprise SKUs

Office 365 E1 is increasing to $10 per user per month (PUPM) from $8 PUPM

Office 365 E3 is increasing to $23 PUPM from $20 PUPM

Office 365 E5 is increasing to $38 PUPM from $35 PUPM

Microsoft 365 E3 is increasing to $36 PUPM from $32 PUPM

SMB SKUs

Microsoft 365 Business Basic is increasing to $6 PUPM from $5 PUPM

Microsoft 365 Business Premium is increasing to $22 PUPM from $20 PUP

There are two available term options for New Commerce Experience:

Monthly Subscriptions

With the NCE you will have the ability to purchase your Microsoft 365 licenses on a monthly basis without an annual commitment. Microsoft is now offering this to provide flexibility to customers that need to make monthly changes to their Microsoft 365 or Office 365 licenses plans and seat count. Licenses may be added or decreased at the end of each month’s term. This subscription does come at a 20% price premium increase.

Annual Subscriptions

With an annual subscription, you are committing to a 12-month term in which you can increase your licenses at any time but can only decrease licenses at the end of the term. This option comes with a 20% discount for the entire 12-month term with monthly and annual billing options.

Multi-year Subscriptions

Multi-year subscriptions will be available at a future date.

 

Yes, all monthly commitments incur a 20% price premium.

Yes, you can pay monthly for an annual contract.

You will have 72 hours from the time of purchase to decrease seat counts for a subscription term. Customers can increase their seat count at any point during their commitment for an existing subscription.

You can determine if you want a subscription(s) to auto-renew. A Subscription(s) that is set to auto-renew, will automatically renew at the end of the subscription(s) term. The 72-hour cancellation period will restart at the renewal term. If a customer does not set subscription(s) to auto-renew at the end of the term, they will need to renew the subscription(s) during the renewal period to avoid the subscription(s) from entering a “disabled” status.

Newly added seats will match the original renewal date of the subscription.

Yes, you can have both a monthly term and an annual term subscription for the  same seat-based offer at the same time.

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A Technology Partnership You Can Count On: Krypt and Office 365

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For just about 20 years now, Krypt has been providing customers all around the globe with superior hosting, built upon the latest technology and rock-solid network infrastructure. More than five million websites are currently being hosted by Krypt servers and infrastructure, with the highest level of customer satisfaction in the industry. The global Krypt network provides customers with the utmost in connectivity, with optimal routing and peering available to all clients. Now lovers of Microsoft Office 365 can enjoy that kind of connectivity and superior hosting as Microsoft and Krypt have partnered to offer that kind of service to all the customers of the world’s most popular suite of Office products.

Advantages of Using Microsoft Office 365

People who require a great deal of storage capability will benefit tremendously by using Office 365, because a full terabyte of storage will be available to you under the OneDrive cloud storage capability, and you’ll have the added advantage of having your files backed up regularly. You’ll also enjoy connectivity to all the other Office products you’ve come to love over the years, even via your mobile device if you should choose that access method. All the power of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Publisher, and other applications will be at your fingertips, ready to tackle whatever your next big project is that might require Office applications.

If you own a desktop as well as a tablet, you’ll appreciate the fact that you can install Office on as many as five different devices, under the terms of your agreement. You’ll never have to worry about scaling up if your business experiences a sudden surge in popularity, because cloud storage can easily accommodate that business expansion, with no intervention on your part. If more and different devices come into the picture, they can also be managed without any additional effort on your part, since it’s all part of your subscription agreement.

Krypt Security for Office 365

These days, everyone who logs on to the Internet needs to be concerned about security, because hackers simply do not rest – malware, ransomware, and viruses abound on the worldwide web, and that will probably never change. What does change though, is the focus of hackers’ attempts to penetrate networks and businesses for their own malicious intent and profitability. Krypt provides state-of-the-art security for all its servers and network infrastructure, so as to discourage even the most determined attempts from cyber criminals.

This means you can rest easy, knowing that all your important business documents are safeguarded and will not be compromised by cyber attack. Because you’ll have the capability of backing up all your files to a secondary data center, you can be sure that business-critical documents will never be lost or corrupted. And all the while that you’re working with your important business documents, you can count on blazing-fast access, because of Krypt’s unique flash caching technology and redundant SAN storage arrays.

Why Choose Krypt as Your Office 365 Provider?

It makes perfect sense to marry the benefits of the world’s most popular Office Suite of productivity software to the best hosting site on the Internet. The combined benefits of superb office productivity and powerful Internet infrastructure provides users with literally the best of both worlds, so you can also experience the benefits of speed and security when using your favorite Office products. If it isn’t a match made in Heaven – it’s pretty darn close!

Contact Krypt today to learn more about their Office 365 services!

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IS YOUR DATA PROTECTED?

 

Fact: Over 50% of data loss is due to users accidentally (or maliciously) deleting essential data.

Over the past year, we’ve seen a great number of businesses switch over to Microsoft Office 365. Afterall, the product reduces the risk of downtime while still providing daily work essentials and documents. And while some basic safety measures may be in place, consumers often forget to include additional services to protect against data loss or data recovery solutions. …

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