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Average costing in BC: a transfer correction to follow

A technical and functional proposal based on an October 28 commit message, focused on the reported scenario, regression design, and unresolved release coverage.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot offers: preparing purchasing and catalogues for December

Microsoft announces a new purchasing route for December. Preparation involves reviewing catalogue data and the licences needed for each intended use case.

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nNexo CommunityEditorial review · 2026-10-28

ANNOUNCEMENT & AVAILABILITY

Checked on October 28, 2026 against the announcement and public licensing, requirements and service documentation. The November and December dates are future dates. The linked FAQ redirects to a protected PDF that could not be accessed. Conditions exclusive to that FAQ, specific prices and operational channel identifiers have not been verified.

Copilot offers and name updates

The announced timetable

The October 14 announcement sets this timetable for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Business:

  • October 16, 2026: existing offer names gain “(add-on)”.
  • November 1, 2026: price list preview.
  • December 1, 2026: new purchases without a Microsoft 365 base subscription prerequisite, with new IDs and unchanged pricing; all channels and commercial, education, government and nonprofit sectors.
  • Add-on sales end in CSP; existing subscriptions allow renewals and seat adjustments, without migration or licence reassignment.

Purchasing, requirements and availability

The public licensing guide consulted still describes eligible base plans and limits Business to 300 licensed users per tenant. That documentation describes the current offering and does not, by itself, confirm every condition of the future offers.

The requirements guide now calls the product Microsoft Copilot and retains requirements for individual experiences: a Microsoft Entra ID account, supported applications and an Exchange Online mailbox for features using mailbox data. This article retains the offer names used in the announcement to help readers identify them.

The service description distinguishes feature availability in commercial and government clouds. Teams should therefore check offer availability and individual feature availability separately for the customer's environment.

Nexo's interpretation: preparing catalogues and quotes

Our interpretation is that preparation should focus on catalogue data and intended use cases. The ability to purchase a licence does not establish which applications it includes or which additional services each user will need.

Automation that identifies products by comparing literal names could stop recognising a changed label. This is a technical possibility; it is not presented as an observed customer incident. Reviewing those rules can reveal dependencies before they are used in a quote or order.

A synthetic catalogue example

This invented example proposes a data structure. DEMO-001 identifies only the demonstration row. Product ID and SKU ID fields must be populated with official values when preparing a real transaction.

FieldExample valueProposed use
Internal referenceDEMO-001Fictional key in the example catalogue.
Display nameDescriptive offer labelPresentation for catalogue readers.
Product ID and SKU IDOfficial values to be enteredSeparate fields populated from the channel catalogue.
TransactionNew purchase or renewalSelect the applicable route before preparing a quote.

What to review before preparing a quote

We suggest these checks as operational preparation:

  • Review rules that depend on display names and record Product ID and SKU ID separately.
  • Consult the preview when available and check the specific offer's market, channel, term, currency and taxes.
  • Map each use case to the applications and services licensed for its users.
  • Distinguish existing renewals from new purchases when preparing commercial proposals.

Created with AI assistance and reviewed by Nexo Community. Practical proposals and editorial interpretation are distinguished from documented facts.

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