MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Microsoft Corporation will restrict access to 50 of its cloud products in Russia, representatives of the Russian company Softline announced citing the corporation's technical support.
According to Softline, due to limited functionality, the block will spread "beyond these products," as well as to local software, the license keys for which will be deactivated.
For the most part, the list contains corporate applications, for example, for business process management (BizTalk Server), corporate accounting (Dynamics 365, Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV), automation (Power Automate, PowerShell, AKS Edge Essentials), business analysis (Power BI) and project management (Project), for managing the IT environment (System Center), collaboration (SharePoint, Office SharePoint Server, Duet Microsoft/SAP) and for SMEs (Small Business Server Essentials), for monitoring services (Systems Center Operations Manager) and for employees (Viva, Glint), enterprise resource planning (Dynamic) and endpoint management (Intune) for digital identity management (Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG).
The list also includes applications for development - application designer Power Apps, creator of interactive tools Power Virtual Agent, application for developing data entry forms InfoPath, software package for developers and designers Expression Studio, software for developing data entry forms (InfoPath, Office InfoPath Forms Server), platform for building Xamarin applications, graphic editor Office Visio.
Access to the Visual Studio program development environment, as well as to Visual C++ and Visual Studio Code will be limited.
Microsoft will block access to Excel, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive storage, the Azure cloud platform, a set of solutions - Azure Stack, Azure DevOps Server, Azure HPC, Azure Private 5G Core and Azure Stack HCI. The same will apply to the Publisher publishing system. Also subject to suspension will be software that is in one way or another connected with databases - Access DBMS and SQL Server, Microsoft Data Access Components (a software package that provides a unified structure for accessing various data sources on Windows).
The corporation will also limit Russians’ access to software for the LinkedIn platform, which is blocked in Russia - the sales management tool LinkedIn Sales Navigator, to the software development kit for Windows Media Player, to the no longer available AI assistant Copilot, to Commerce Server, the product for creating e-commerce systems.
About Microsoft's actions
The corporation originally intended to suspend access to its cloud products, as well as data, in Russia from March 20. Later, Andrey Blagorazumov, vice president of the Russian Softline group of companies, told TASS that Microsoft could postpone the suspension until the end of this month - this will give time to set up an alternative infrastructure.
Microsoft does not plan to disable individual products. The corporation said the restrictions were related to the 12th package of EU sanctions against Russia dated December 19, 2023. In particular, the supply of software for business analytics and other products to Russia is limited.