Non-profit price increase

Microsoft have announced a price increase to five Microsoft 365 non-profit subscriptions from 1 September 2022 (a similar increase was applied to the commercial pricelist in March 2022):

• Office 365 E1, E3, E5
• Microsoft 365 E3, Business Premium

March 2022 announcements – Partner Center | Microsoft Docs

SQL Server 2012 End of Support – 3 months away

SQL Server 2012 reaches end of support on 12 July 2022 at which point security patches will cease being issued. To avoid security breaches the options are:

• Upgrade to SQL 2019 (or 2016)
• Purchase Extended Security Updates (Enterprise Agreement customers only)
• Move VM to Azure – free security patches

Move end-of-support SQL Server 2012 to Azure Virtual Machines and save – Microsoft SQL Server Blog

SQL Server 2022 is nearing public preview release and will be here later in 2022.

SQL Server 2022 Early Adoption Program Update – Applications Now Closed – Microsoft Tech Community

Veeam price increase 1 April 2022

We received word late March that Veeam were increasing the prices of the below products effective 1 April 2022:

• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 – 6.25%
• Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (standalone purchase) – 9.67%
• DR Pack (Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator purchased alongside Veeam Backup & Replication™) – 9.67%