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'Unknown Error' while completing Microsoft ISV Success Sign Up
While completing my ISV Success signup, after pressing 'Agree and Continue' and verifying all input fields, it shows me "An unknown error occurred, please try again later". Why is it showing this error? All the fields have been filled correctly. Can someone assist me with this? Has anyone else faced and resolved this error? I have attached the screenshot of the error as well. Thanks.Marketplace trainings and events calendar
Welcome to our calendar for accessing upcoming Marketplace trainings and events - and links to recent resources. This page is a go-to resource for discovering training sessions and events designed specifically for software development companies related to Microsoft Marketplace. Whether you’re building innovative solutions or publishing to the commercial marketplace, you’ll find content that helps you stay ahead in today’s fast-moving tech landscape. We’ve organized dedicated areas for Partners and Customers, making it easy to find sessions most relevant to your needs. Some events are upcoming, while others are past recordings that remain highly valuable for learning and growth. This page will be updated frequently with new opportunities, so be sure to subscribe for notifications. Instructions for subscribing are provided at the bottom of this post. Explore the upcoming AI events below, revisit past sessions, and feel free to comment with any questions! Partner and Channel Partner sessions Upcoming sessions Date Time Area Title Description Link 01/21/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: January 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community 02/18/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: February 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community 03/18/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: March 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community 04/15/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: April 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community 05/20/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: May 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community 06/17/26 8:30 AM PST Office Hours Marketplace Office Hours for Partners Tune in for updates, insights, and live Q&A to help you sell through the Microsoft Marketplace. Specific topic TBD Marketplace office hours for partners: June 2026 - Microsoft Marketplace Community Recent Recorded Sessions Date Time Area Title Description Link 12/18/25 Recording Office Hour Partner Introducing resale enabled offers Explore resale enabled offers through Microsoft Marketplace Office hours for partners: Marketplace resale enabled offers | Microsoft Community Hub 12/04/25 Recording Partner AI-powered acceleration: scale faster on Microsoft Marketplace Go beyond basics of listing and explore how Microsoft Marketplace is a strategic revenue engine. AI-powered acceleration: scale faster on Microsoft Marketplace | Microsoft Community Hub 11/04/25 Recording Partner How to structure your Microsoft Partner Center account for long term success A well-defined Microsoft Partner Center account is critical for smooth operations and marketplace success. We walk through how to set up and organize your account for operational efficiency and Marketplace success. How to structure your Microsoft Partner Center account for long term success | Microsoft Community Hub 08/28/25 Recording Office Hour Partner Certified software designations: FY26 benefits updates Certified software designation- what is it and why it matters. FY26 benefits updates Certified Software Designations: FY26 Benefits Updates | Microsoft Community Hub Customer sessions Upcoming sessions Date Time Area Title Description Link Check back frequently for upcoming sessions Recorded Sessions Date Time Area Title Description Link 12/11/25 Recording Officer Hour Customer Chart your AI app and agent strategy with Microsoft Marketplace Organizations exploring AI apps and agents face a critical choice build, buy, or blend. Tune in for insights into each approach https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/event/azureevents/chart-your-ai-app-and-agent-strategy-with-microsoft-marketplace/4473304 07/30/25 Recording Office Hour Customer FinOps and the Microsoft Marketplace Learn how the Microsoft Marketplace can support your FinOps practitioners by sourcing thousands of pre-vetted solutions that accelerate AI transformation. Office hours: FinOps and the Microsoft marketplace | Microsoft Community Hub Subscribe to this post If you're not a member of the Tech Community already, create an account at techcommunity.microsoft.com Select "subscribe" from the 3-dot dropdown in the upper-right corner of this post. Under "Notification Settings," select "Notify me of Any edits & comments on knowledge bases articles I subscribe to," then select to receive updates to this post either immediately, daily, or weekly (I recommend weekly). Manage your subscription settings so that you can receive email updates on new events. Manage these settings by selecting your profile icon in the top right corner of the community, selecting "My Settings," and selecting "Subscriptions & Notifications." You can also subscribe to the entire marketplace community which will provide you with regular updates on all marketplace discussion topics happening in this forum. To do this, click "subscribe" in the upper right corner of the marketplace community homepage.Microsoft Marketplace offer live? Make it shine. 🌟
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Creating a new referral - is 'estimated deal value' the ACV or TCV?
When creating a referral in Partner Centre, there is a 'Estimated value' to add in the deal details section. It is not clear is this is supposed to be the annualised contract value, or the total contract value of the full term and including one-off charges. I have looked here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/partner-center/referrals/manage-co-sell-opportunities#add-deal-details and at various other pages and searched, and it is not clearly stated. Please advise, and ideally please update the docs and maybe put a small 'info' icon next to 'Estimated value' to help others and so that it is clear what is expected here, not left to guess and peoples opinions about what should or shouldn't go in there.REGISTER: Elevate Innovation Partner Connection Calls
The Elevate Innovation Partner Connection Calls are designed to support partners working with Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. These office hours will run January through March and are intended to help partners successfully bring the Public Preview to nonprofit customers through shared guidance, real-world learnings, and direct engagement with the Elevate Innovation team. Register to be added to the Microsoft Teams experience and choose the session that works best for your region. We look forward to connecting and learning together. Typical Agenda Documentation & Readiness Updates (5 minutes) Overview of recent updates to documentation, solution artifacts, and key lessons learned to support partner readiness. Partner Q&A (40 minutes) Open forum for nonprofit partners to ask questions, clarify guidance, and discuss real-world scenarios with the team. Partner Observations & Feedback (10 minutes) Time for partners to share insights, challenges, and feedback to help inform ongoing improvements and future updates. Upcoming Elevate Innovation Partner Connection Calls January 8, 2026 U.S.: 8:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM CT / 11:00 AM ET GMT: 4:00 PM January 15, 2026 Asia (SGT / HKT): 2:00 PM Australia (AEDT): 5:00 PM January 22, 2026 U.S.: 7:00 AM PT / 9:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM ET GMT: 3:00 PM All sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams. Please register to receive the calendar invitation and access details.Boosting cloud and AI ROI: The power of Microsoft Marketplace
Maximizing return on investment in cloud and AI requires more than technology—it demands smarter procurement and streamlined deployment. This article explains how Microsoft Marketplace helps organizations accelerate adoption, reduce costs, and unlock innovation. Learn how Marketplace simplifies purchasing, enables flexible billing, and provides access to thousands of solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Read the full article hereKey AI announcements for software developers from Microsoft Ignite 2025
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft unveiled a series of AI innovations that signal a significant evolution in how software developers build, deploy, and scale intelligent solutions. Central to these announcements is Microsoft Foundry, a unified platform designed to simplify the development, orchestration, and governance of AI agents across Microsoft’s cloud and application ecosystem. The announcements also introduced Foundry IQ, enabling secure, compliant access to enterprise data for AI agents, along with a new Foundry Control Plane that provides centralized visibility and operational control. Together, these capabilities help reduce complexity while supporting enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability requirements. Additional highlights include expanded model choice and flexibility through enhanced Model Router support and deeper integration of third-party models, as well as new capabilities that allow developers to publish and distribute AI agents directly into Microsoft 365 and Teams, creating powerful new go-to-market opportunities. Read the full article to learn more about these Microsoft Ignite announcements, what they mean for software developers, and how to take advantage of Microsoft’s rapidly evolving AI and Marketplace ecosystem.
Customer CUSTOMER_NAME notified of anomalous activity in Azure subscription
How do others feel about the alerts showing up in the Partner Center? We’ve detected suspicious or malicious activity in this Azure subscription. The customer of this subscription has been notified. What suspicious or malicious activity did microsoft detect you ask? An important security update is available for your Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) resource(s). That's right, there is no suspicious or malicious activity. Microsoft wants people to install an out of band security update and thought sending a notification to all azure customers was the best way to ensure that happened. Half the clients that received this alert aren't even running windows servers! Those that are running windows servers do not have the WSUS role installed. All the clients Microsoft alerted us about to suspicious activity in their subscriptions... Don't use WSUS We did have the pleasure of manually closing every single alert as "ignore" and I'm delighted to know that these alerts didn't count towards the security requirement to have an avg response time of less than 24h. I thought the partner security alerts were to notify us of critical issues microsoft detected in azure subscriptions. This, does not appear to be that. Am I missing something? thoughts?Unlocking growth: The channel-led Marketplace opportunity
The Microsoft Marketplace is creating new ways for partners to scale and grow. This article explores how channel-led strategies can accelerate customer acquisition, expand reach, and drive revenue through marketplace transactions. Learn why embracing marketplace collaboration is critical for future success and how partners can leverage these opportunities to deliver greater value. Unlocking growth: the channel-led Marketplace opportunity | Microsoft Community HubGetting Started with OpenAI Whisper on Azure
In March of 2024 OpenAI Whisper for Azure became generally available, you can read the announcement here. From the documentation, “The Whisper model is a speech to text model from OpenAI that you can use to transcribe(and translate) audio files. The model is trained on a large dataset of English audio and text. The model is optimized for transcribing audio files that contain speech in English. The model can also be used to transcribe audio files that contain speech in other languages. The output of the model is English text.” At this time, translation from 57 Languages is supported. I wanted to spend this time to cover a few topics to help you make sense of the two flavors that will be available to you, Azure AI Speech Service, and Azure OpenAI Service. To get started, there is a table in the documentation referenced above to give you the use cases for Whisper for Azure vs. Azure AI Speech Model. There is a matrix at the following link to provide a recommended supportability matrix to give you an idea when to choose each service. I will call out from the documentation that there are limitations to the Azure Open AI Whisper model; Whisper Model via Azure OpenAI Service might be best for: Quickly transcribing audio files one at a time Translate audio from other languages into English Provide a prompt to the model to guide the output Supported file formats: mp3, mp4, mpweg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm Whisper Model via Azure AI Speech might be best for: Transcribing files larger than 25MB (up to 1GB). The file size limit for the Azure OpenAI Whisper model is 25 MB. Transcribing large batches of audio files Diarization to distinguish between the different speakers participating in the conversation. The Speech service provides information about which speaker was speaking a particular part of transcribed speech. The Whisper model via Azure OpenAI doesn't support diarization. Word-level timestamps Supported file formats: mp3, wav, and ogg Customization of the Whisper base model to improve accuracy for your scenario (coming soon) Getting started with a Python Sample for OpenAI Whisper on Azure We do have a sample doc for this, however as many data scientist know, packages move fast and change often. As of this writing, the following code sample works with the OpenAI package > 1. Also, the api_version is correct as of this writing, I will keep this blog updated with any necessary changes for future versions. I will collect some samples and publish them to a GitHub repository and link them here in the near future. In the meantime, read the prerequisites here and get started. You will need an Azure subscription, access to the Azure OpenAI Service in your subscription, and add a Whisper model deployment. I will not comment on the region availability as it is constantly expanding, but you can keep an eye on this page to keep up with region availability. Once you have your deployment created, you will need to copy the URL endpoint and one of the two Open AI Keys from Azure OpenAI under the resource management section of your Azure OpenAI resource. This code sample will read in an audio file from local disk. A variety of audio samples can be found here in the Azure Speech SDK github repo. The result you get from one of the samples will look something like this; Translation(text='As soon as the test is completed, which is displayed successfully by the status change, you will receive a VIN number for both models in your test. Click on the test name to show the page with the test details. This detail page lists all statements in your data set and shows the recognition results of the two models next to the transcription from the transmitted data set. For a simpler examination of the opposite, you can activate or deactivate various error types such as additions, deletions and substitutions.') Using Azure AI Services Speech The alternative option is to use Azure OpenAI Whisper model in the Azure AI Speech Service. The Azure AI Speech Service offers a lot of capability, captioning, audio content creation, transcription, as well as real-time speech to text and text to speech. If you have been using the Azure AI Speech Service, you likely have much of the code written to take advantage of the Azure OpenAI Whisper model. There is a migration guide to move you from REST API v3.1 to Version 3.2 which supports the Whisper model. You should provide multiple files per request or point to an Azure Blob Storage container with the audio files to transcribe. The batch transcription service can handle a large number of submitted transcriptions. The service transcribes the files concurrently, which reduces the turnaround time. If you are using this as part of a batch transcription process, you can find the documentation here. The most important note about making sure you are using the Whisper model is to make sure you set the model version to 3.2, but keep in mind region availability which is linked here. I hope this article has helped you determine which service is right for you. Keep in mind, all Azure AI services are fast moving, so keep an eye on the docs linked in this post as well as the constantly expanding Microsoft learn site.Azure monthly newsletters are now on the Partner News blog!
Go to our Partner news blog and click the tag "Azure News" to catch up on all our past monthly Azure newsletters. You can click the follow button in the top right corner to receive notifications of when the next newsletter is released. This ensures you will never miss out on updates again! Come on in and join the conversation! -jillCommunicating the value of Microsoft Marketplace
Helping customers understand the true value of Microsoft Marketplace is key to driving adoption and success. This recent article shares practical approaches for framing conversations around business outcomes, cost optimization, and innovation. Learn how to position Marketplace as a strategic enabler, highlight its role in accelerating procurement, and demonstrate measurable impact for your customers. How we talk about the value of Microsoft Marketplace with customers | Microsoft Community HubNOW AVAILABLE: Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric – Event Recording & Demo
Thank you to everyone who joined us on December 9 for our sessions on Nonprofit Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric. We’re excited to announce that the event recording and presentation are now live—and you can watch them alongside the Microsoft Fabric Demo. 🚀 Watch demo overview on the Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric solution. 🎥 Listen to recording and review presentation to learn more how Microsoft Fabric empowers nonprofits to: ✅ Accelerate impact with unified, AI-ready data ✅ Unlock insights for stronger fundraising and mission success ✅ Expand opportunities in the $48B+ data & analytics market 💡 Why It Matters Fabric provides secure, scalable infrastructure, advanced analytics, and AI-driven capabilities to unify data, automate processes, and deliver measurable mission impact. 📚 Go-to-Market Resources for Nonprofit Partners Use the following tools/resources, located on the Nonprofit Partner Readiness site under solution play readiness materials Cloud & AI Platform tab's Unify your data platform section to accelerate adoption and position yourself as a trusted advisor: Core Resources: E-book | Harnessing Your Data to Drive Nonprofit Mission Success E-book | Microsoft Fabric Unified Analytics for Data-Driven Innovation Demo | Nonprofit data solution in Microsoft Fabric One Pager | Unify Your Data Platform to Accelerate Nonprofit Impact Pitch Deck | Nonprofit Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric Campaign-in-a-Box Resources: E-book Template | Fuel Your Nonprofit Acceleration Unlock Opportunity Email template | Fuel Your Nonprofit Acceleration: Unlock Opportunity from Your Data Guide | Microsoft nonprofit partner campaign setup One pager template | Unify Your Data Platform to Accelerate Nonprofit Impact Registration page template | Fuel Your Nonprofit Acceleration: Unlock Opportunity from Your Data Together, we can help nonprofits overcome data silos, automate processes, and unlock actionable insights—leading to stronger donor engagement, smarter fundraising strategies, and greater mission success.This week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls - Holiday Cheer Edition
🎉 Holiday Cheer Alert! 🎶 Ready to jingle all the way with the Fabric Partner Community? Join us for our Fabric Engineering Connection - Holiday Cheer Edition! The festivities kick off with a “Name That Tune: Holiday Edition” game—where your competitive spirit could win you fabulous prizes! Bring your brightest “Ho Ho Ho,” your silliest sparkle, and get ready to sleigh the season with us. 🎅✨ Stick around for inspiring presentations from our guest speakers: 🦌Nellie Gustafsson, Principal PM Manager, with updates on Data Science, AI, and Data Agents (Americas & EMEA call only) 🦌Shireen Bahadur, Senior Program Manager, and Ajay Jagannathan, Principal Group PM Manager, sharing “What’s New in Database Mirroring” 📅 Americas & EMEA: Wednesday, December 17, 8–9 am PT 📅 APAC: Thursday, December 18, 1–2 am UTC Show starts on the hour—enthusiasm mandatory, jingle optional! 🔔 To join, become a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams Channel (if you are not already): https://lnkd.in/g_PRdfjt Let’s deck the halls, spread some cheer, and make this celebration one to remember!Strengthening Cloud Skills in the Community – Azure Training & Consulting
Hi everyone, I’m Haris Khurshid, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) specializing in Microsoft Azure. I deliver professional training and hands-on consulting across: AZ-104: Azure Administrator AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-140: Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Azure Migration & Modernization With extensive real-world experience, I help individuals and organizations build strong Azure skills, modernize infrastructure, and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions. If you require training, a technical session, or Azure consulting services, feel free to reach out. Always happy to support the community. Warm regard Haris
In a Day (xIAD) Partner Events Program - Train the Trainer Events (DIAD/FAIAD/RTIAD/CWYDIAD)
We invite you to attend an upcoming Train the Trainer session for Microsoft Partners to learn more about the Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) Partner Events Programand how to lead workshops that empower customers to use and adopt Microsoft products. Our Train the Trainer events are designed to provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to deliver successful Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) sessions. *Please note, participation is restricted to individuals representing a Microsoft Partner organization. You must register using your corporate email address that is associated with your Partner ID. Personal emails will not be approved. ✨ Why Attend? Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced trainers and get your questions answered. Comprehensive Resources: Access all the content and support you need to succeed. 📅 Upcoming Events: Dashboard in a Day This is a one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts, covering the breadth of Power BI capabilities. Currently available on-demand. Inquire at xiadevents@microsoft.com Fabric Analyst in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI Data Analysts who have at least one year of experience on Power BI but are new to Microsoft Fabric. Currently available on-demand. Inquire at xiadevents@microsoft.com Real-Time Intelligence in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI developers looking to extract insights and visualize streaming and time sensitive data. Currently available on-demand. Inquire at mailto:xiadevents@microsoft.com Chat with your Data in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI data analysts and developers to help get their models chat-ready and unlock instant insights using natural language. December 22, 2025 - EMEA 9-5 CEST December 23, 2025 - AMERICAS 9-5 CST Sign up at https://aka.ms/CWYDIAD-ttt Partner with us! Are you a Microsoft Partner interested in the opportunity to join the program and deliver Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) events? 🔍 Learn more about the program and review partner eligibility criteria: https://aka.ms/xiadpartneropportunity. 📧 Contact the XIAD Program team: xiadevents@microsoft.com 📤 Submit requests to deliver events: https://aka.ms/xIAD/PartnerEventsUsing GDAP with Purview Roles for Search and Purge
I'm facing an issue that I believe may be related to how my current employer has set up GDAP, but I am struggling to get a solid answer on the solution to the issue as it's not clear if the problem is simply a limitation through GDAP or something not configured correctly. Scenario: We have a GDAP relationship set up with 20+ clients that provides us with Entra roles such as Security Operator, User Administrator, etc. Various Entra roles to perform common tasks as an MSP We are currently unable to perform email purges using Explorer in Defender or Purview, as the role required appears to be only assignable to a user account or group that exists in the tenant in question, and as we are acting through GDAP, there is no account or group to give that role to. On the back of this, I have several questions/requests: Should a GDAP relationship also create some group or guest/external user that roles of this nature can be assigned to? Is there something specific we need to do through our GDAP configuration to allow us to search and purge emails?This Azure Cosmos DB discussion board will be migrating into the Azure partners board on December 12, 2025.
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CosmosDb multi-region writes and creating globally unique value
Hi! I am trying to understand how to deal with conflicts when using multi-region writes. Imagine I am trying to create a Twitter clone and I have to ensure that when a user creates an account, it also select an unique user handle (a unique key like username ). In a single region I would just have a container with no indexing and then create that value as a partition key, if I succeed it means that there was not another handle with that value and from this point nobody else will be able to add it. But when thinking in multi-region writes, two persons in different regions could indeed add the same handle. Then the conflict resolution strategy would need to deal with it. But the only conflict resolution possible here is to delete one of them. But this is happening asynchronously after both persons successfully created their accounts, so one of them would get a bad surprise the next time they log in. As far as I understood, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/consistency-levels#strong-consistency-and-multiple-write-regions After thinking for a while about this problem I think there is no solution possible using multiple write regions. The only solution would be to have this container in an account with a single write region, and although the client could do a "tentative query" to another read-only region to see if a given handle is already taken, in the final step to actually take it I must force the client to do the final write operation in that particular region. Consistency levels here only help to define how close to reality is the "tentative query", but that is all. Does this reasoning make sense? Many thanks.
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