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Tech blog — Microsoft, Independent Engineering, licensing.

Short, dated posts — written by the practitioners who also implement what they write about in client setups. Reading time typically 3 to 8 minutes, every post with a date and clear categorization.

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Topic categories

Six fields in which we publish regularly.

If you're looking for a specific topic, here's the entry point. Each category collects its own posts and links to the matching service page where the topic is treated in depth.

Latest posts

What we've written most recently.

A selection of recent posts — commented updates from Microsoft releases, lessons learned from ongoing implementations, and framings of EU regulation.

May 8, 2026 · Licensing

Dynamics 365 Licensing Update May 2026 — the 16 changes

Microsoft published sixteen documented changes to the Dynamics 365 license model between October 2025 and May 2026 — from premium Copilot Credits through Business Central agents to MCP. We walk through the change log with commentary and call out which changes become license-optimization levers.

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May 8, 2026 · Licensing

Base + Attach: the Microsoft licensing lever almost no one uses correctly

Microsoft Dynamics 365 has a licensing mechanic that we find misconfigured at every third client. Anyone licensing multiple apps often pays only a quarter of the price for the second — if the setup is right. With two calculation examples for a 30-person constellation.

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May 8, 2026 · Licensing

1,000 Copilot Credits in premium licenses — is the premium worth it?

Since November 2025, Sales/Service/Finance/SCM Premium each include 1,000 Copilot Credits per user per month. We pencil the premium out against pay-as-you-go credits — and say at what agent usage Premium tips over. With two concrete 25- and 50-user setups.

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May 8, 2026 · Licensing

Team Members vs. Sales Pro: the most common Microsoft licensing violation in the mid-market

Team Members is the cheapest D365 license and the most common source of violations. We walk through the use rights from Appendix D, describe three typical compliance traps — and show how we audit them with Devonso.

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May 8, 2026 · Licensing

Model Context Protocol for Dynamics 365 — what MCP means for your AI architecture

Microsoft introduced the Model Context Protocol for Dynamics 365 in February 2026. Free inside Copilot Studio, included outside via Premium or M365 Copilot, otherwise billable. Anyone planning their own agents on Anthropic Claude or Microsoft Foundry should know the license logic before the architecture workshop.

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May 5, 2026 · Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP

What became of Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

Microsoft long ago split the former F&O stack — into Finance, Supply Chain Management, Commerce, and Human Resources. Anyone still running an old AX 2012 or F&O on-prem installation should know the module map and its license consequences. We give an honest overview and name the points where we refer you to specialized F&O partners.

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April 15, 2026 · NIS2 · Compliance

NIS2 — what does it mean for German mid-market companies?

With the national transposition of the NIS2 directive, ~29,500 companies are obligated for the first time. Who falls in scope? Which obligations apply concretely? We frame the thresholds, show the Microsoft path with Purview, Entra ID, and Defender — and call out where an independent architecture is the more honest answer.

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How we write

Three rules for every post.

So you know what you won't get here — and what you will. These three self-rules apply to every post, whether release note, practice report, or regulatory framing.

  1. From our own practice. We only write about topics we've implemented in client projects ourselves or, at minimum, seriously evaluated. No speculative best-practice listicles, no aggregation content.
  2. With date and author context. Microsoft changes license matrices and features quickly. Every post carries a date so you see whether it's still current — and you know from which role we wrote.
  3. With honest delineation. If Microsoft is the better answer, we say so. If Independent Engineering is the better answer, we say so too. And if a specialized partner is the better fit for a given topic (e.g. F&O ERP), we point you to them.

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