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Moving to a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) from an Enterprise Agreement (EA)

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Jan 21, 2025

Learn about renewing your direct Enterprise Agreement as a Microsoft Customer Agreement

Microsoft has introduced a new contractual model for Azure enterprise customers, called the Microsoft Customer Agreement. Guidance on changes to the billing hierarchy can be found here: Set up billing for Microsoft Customer Agreement - Azure

Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect Dina Fatkulbayanova has written a great article on LinkedIn sharing her knowledge and recommendations of the transition process and billing hierarchy changes: Moving from EA to MCA: what you should know

Check it out and please share with your networks on LinkedIn!

 

Published Jan 21, 2025
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  • savoysystems's avatar
    savoysystems
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 01, 2026

    quochungdangptit​ in case you are still working on this, you don't need to transfer to MCA-E first as EA to CSP transfers are also supported. 

     

    This article is helpful: 

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/subscription-transfer#product-transfer-support

  • quochungdangptit's avatar
    quochungdangptit
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 16, 2025

    Hi,

     

    So can we use this for converting EA to CSP, by converting EA to MCA-E first, then converting MCA-E to CSP?

    Because one of Microsoft learning article said we can convert from MCA-E to CSP.