Microsoft To Move All Public Sector Licences To NCE Model

Although the news has been coming for a while now, as of next month, 01^st Aug 2024, Microsoft will be stopping the sale of all Legacy Public Sector products for new subscriptions.

After that, all new subscriptions will need to be transacted through the new Microsoft New Commerce Experience (known as NCE) platform.

Products going forward will be labelled with ‘Product Name’ [New Commerce Experience].

What is NCE?

The new commerce experience (NCE) “per seat” model for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, and Power Platform subscriptions is the latest in the evolution of their CSP program.

What Happens Next?

What you may need to look you for is that from 01^st September this year, there’ll be an automatic migration process for all Public Sector Legacy subscriptions to the NCE platform on the subscription’s Legacy renewal date starting at 12am UTC.

• Subscriptions will be transitioned to an annual commitment and inherit the existing Legacy subscription billing term of annual or monthly.
• Subscriptions will be transitioned to the NCE version of the product and keep the same quantity.
• Subscriptions dependent on one another (base/add-ons) will all be migrated at the base subscription’s renewal date.
• Subscriptions will have a seven-day (167-hour) window to make any changes.
• Subscriptions will be provided a new subscription ID and must be synced to PSA integrations.
• Commercial subscriptions that are tied to a public sector subscription will not move to NCE until after the public sector migration starts in July 2024.

FormusPro will be handling all subscriptions / migrations for our clients and will be in touch regarding this but if you’re still not sure if you’ll be affected or not, or are unsure what to do, please reach out to us for help.