The list of Microsoft software products, access to which will be limited in the Russian Federation at the end of March, was named based on the responses of the American corporation by representatives of the Russian company Softline on March 19 in a chat dedicated to this topic. .
We are talking about 50 Microsoft cloud products. Softline noted that the block will indirectly affect a wider range of services and will affect local software, whose license keys will be disabled.
The list mainly includes business applications BizTalk Server, Dynamics 365, Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV, Power Automate, PowerShell, AKS Edge Essentials, Power BI, Project, System Center, SharePoint, Office SharePoint Server, Duet Microsoft/SAP, Small Business Server Essentials , Systems Center Operations Manager, Viva, Glint, as well as Dynamic, Intune, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG.
Visual Studio, Visual C++, Visual Studio Code development applications will also be blocked, as well as Power Apps, Power Virtual Agent, InfoPath, Expression Studio, InfoPath, Office InfoPath Forms Server, Xamarin, and the Office Visio graphics editor.
Microsoft also plans to block access to Publisher, Excel, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive cloud storage, Azure cloud platform, and Azure Stack products, Azure DevOps Server, Azure HPC, Azure Private 5G Core, and Azure Stack HCI.
The corporation’s technical support noted that the restrictions will affect programs that use DBMS Access and SQL Server, Microsoft data access components, Windows Media tools, the Copilot AI assistant and Commerce Server e-commerce systems.
All of these products will no longer be available to legal entities in Russia. At the same time, Microsoft states that the use of this software by individuals in the Russian Federation will continue to be possible.
These restrictions are part of the twelfth package of EU sanctions against Russia, announced on December 19, 2023.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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