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Seeking Guidance & Partners for Promoting Microsoft TSP Training
Hello everyone, I’m exploring effective ways to market our Microsoft TSP (Training Services Partner) courses and would really appreciate insights from the community. If you have experience promoting Microsoft training offerings, I’d love to learn about recommended approaches, or useful resources that have worked for you. I’m also open to connecting with individuals or partners who support course marketing on a commission basis. If you have suggestions, guidance, or services you’d like to offer, please feel free to share. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support. vk2
Power Apps per app End of Sale
Hi Microsoft Elevate team Firstly, Happy New Year to you all! I wanted to reach out regarding an important update in the January 2026 Power Platform Licensing Guide. It appears that Power Apps per app licenses have been marked as “End of Sale,” which represents a significant change for nonprofits. Could you please provide clarity on the following points regarding the 10 free/grant Power Apps per app licenses? Until when will nonprofits be able to purchase these licenses? How long will existing licenses remain usable? (Ideally, at least 12 months if not longer.) Once the grant for per app licenses is discontinued, will there be a comparable offering? e.g. grants for Power Apps Premium licenses? This is a significant part of Microsoft's nonprofit offer and a key reason many organisations choose the Power Platform over competing solutions. Nearly all of our nonprofit customers have leveraged this benefit and subsequently invested in additional Microsoft products, including Copilot. Discontinuing this could have a significant impact on both nonprofits and partners who serve them. I appreciate any guidance you can provide on this matter. Thank you, Matt
Unable to complete Partner Center Enrollment
Hello, I am trying to enroll in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. I can get through the process (fill out company information, etc.) but when I go to the final acceptance form and click submit, it constantly throws an error: I can sign in to the Partner Center but cannot open a support ticket because the "contact support" dialogue has no entry for workspace and will not let me enter anything: Is there a workaround to submit a ticket on this?Issues with Support
Hi we have been a partner for years, but lately there has been some issues with our account we have a few support tickets and the tickets stay open with no activity, we also tried to get our partner manager to help, (we got a new one this Jan) and they could/did not do anything either, just wanted to check with the community if y'all had any advice on this and how we can get this escalated since some of the tickets do have some business impact to our day to day business
Registration Status
My company has received the "Welcome to the Microsoft Training Services Partner Program" email. We have successfully completed all the onboarding steps listed there. Can you please check in the system whether my organization is fully registered? Is there a screen / field in the Partner Center displaying the registration status that's expected to be updated? Sorry, I tried to find this out on my own per the instructions in the email + on the associated website and was unable to locate the confirmation. Thanks, VitalyRenew Az-305
My AZ-305 certification recently expired because I missed the renewal window. I did not receive any renewal notification emails before the expiration, which is why I was unable to complete the renewal assessment in time. I would like to kindly request whether any additional time or an exception could be granted in my case. If this is not possible, I completely understand, but I would appreciate it if you could review my situation and advise on any available options.Why build your AI apps and agents with Microsoft
Customer demand for AI solutions is accelerating rapidly, Microsoft has seen 2x growth in customers purchasing AI products. Organizations are looking for trusted, enterprise-ready platforms to support their innovation. Microsoft's AI-native ecosystem, backed by industry leading security, Responsible AI principles, and rapidly growing catalog of AI apps and agents, provides a strong foundation for building scalable, compliant, and high-impact AI solutions. Explore how developers and software companies can take advantage of Microsoft's integrated tools, streamlined publishing experience, and expansive Marketplace reach to deliver AI solution that meet customers where they are. Learn more and read the full article: Discover why to build AI apps and agents with Microsoft and sell through Marketplace | Microsoft Community Hub🎤 Save the Date: AMA with the Microsoft Fabric Leadership Team!
We’re excited to announce an upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with the Fabric Leadership Team—a unique opportunity for partners to engage directly with the leaders shaping the future of Microsoft Fabric! 🔹 Featured Leader Bogdan Crivat, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data Analytics 🗓️ Date & Time Tuesday, February 17 8:00–9:00 AM PT 💬 Ask Your Questions Have topics you want the leadership team to address? Submit or upvote your data analytics–related questions now: 👉 https://aka.ms/AMAwithFabricLT 👥 Who Can Join? This AMA is exclusive to members of the Fabric Partner Community. If you're not yet a member, join here to participate in future calls: 👉 https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity
Visual Studio Enterprise Monthly Azure Credits
Please confirm that all developers of MS partners are losing the individual Azure credits (150$ monthly) in the new MAICPP benefits. We just realized that our team will lose the ability to test Marketplace solutions, and now, in the time that we are trying to enforce the usage and explore the AI technology possibilities, it will set us back a lot. Also, the increased bulk credits do not add up, since we have 35 developers who are using these credits, totaling 63k$ per year, opposed to the 16k$ increase of bulk credits (we have 4 areas) is a significant loss. How come Microsoft decided to stop supporting the development? Is there any way to change these new benefits? Or is there a way to keep these Azure credits, maybe with an Enterprise agreement?Azure sponsorship and cost management challenge
I am listening for years that Azure Sponsorship type of Azure subscriptions will get Azure Cost Management. This includes the view of prices inside portal.azure.com, managing budgets, checking each individual resources etc. Current / old portal - https://www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com/Usage , does not show costs per each resource (name), instead only per resources type. Not possible to set budgets, alerts, limits, and other things. So, again, when does Microsoft plans to upgrade Azure sponsorships to use Cost Management? Any reference (roadmap) link on this please?New FY26 benefits release date
As mentioned here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/benefits/benefits-faq-new the new benefits for FY26 should get available in February 2026. As we already have February 2026, is there an exact date when this will happen? Or will the new benefits only get available upon the annual renewal of the Partner Program as last time?
Duplicate functionality due to added functionality (1st of July)
In July additional functionality will be added to several Microsoft products, in this case I have a customer that currently has Microsoft 365 E3 and a separate Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 license. Both licenses will be renewed on the 31st of march, therefore an annual subscription until 30th of march 2027. In July the functionality of de Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 will become part of the Microsoft 365 E3 plan. Will it be possible to cancel the remaining months of the Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 license or do we need to accommodate for this and change the Defender for Office license to monthly and then cancel the subscription the 1st of July?Visual Studio Lite benefits - without Azure Credits and Keys
As communicated earlier, the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program benefit offerings—including partner benefits packages, Solutions Partner designations, and specializations—will be updated later this month to support how you build, differentiate, and grow your business. The per-user monthly Azure credits associated with this benefit will no longer be available. You can still access organization-level Azure bulk credits that come with your benefits offering. This may require an Azure subscription migration for users to continue accessing credits, and we strongly recommend a change management plan for this transition. In addition, product keys will no longer be accessible within Visual Studio. Keys will instead be available as part of the benefits package(s) your organization holds and can be securely assigned to users directly from Partner Center. Please note that these changes will not be retroactively applied. They will go into effect when your organization renews its affected benefits offering(s) or if you activate a new offering on or after the February update. We have been partners for 20 years and using Partner benefits. Again, Microsoft tries to lower benefits, and in parallel benefit package price will increase (due to different reasons). This discussion and community of partners, should unit and tell to Microsoft Partner Benefits program that: Partners have employees/users, that use current Visual Studio benefit, that is (like MSDN), having the user access to keys and Azure credits, for specific user / employee need of test, dev, demo etc. Azure Bulk credit was never the same and cannot be used as a same Azure Bulk credit / Azure sponsorship, does not have cost control, Azure budgets and other methods. (This is in plan to change for several years, no progress) on Azure technical side. Will Microsoft increase Azure Bulk credits to compensate te amount of included benefit usage? Dear, Microsoft, please leave current Partner Benefits, with full Visual Studio, including Azure credits, and Keys for assigned users, without moving to lower benefit - Visual Studio Lite. Thank you for understanding, and hope this will not be active in production after partner renewals.Microsoft Marketplace: $300B partner revenue opportunity by 2030
BIG momentum for partners: Microsoft Marketplace is projected to be a $300B partner revenue opportunity by 2030, according to a commissioned study by Omdia. And partners already selling through Marketplace are seeing real results: ✅ 88% report revenue growth ✅ 75% close sales faster ✅ 69% get larger deals Learn more about Marketplace growth opportunities for partners in this recent blog: Unlocking the profitability multiplier: Maximizing revenue with Microsoft MarketplaceLegal Info Page Not Loading – 40+ Days, No Support Resolution
Hello, I'm posting here hoping to get some visibility on an issue that has been unresolved for over 40 days despite multiple support interactions. Issue: The Legal Information page under Account Settings in Partner Center does not load. The page simply spins indefinitely. This prevents me from updating my company name. Impact: This is blocking customer onboarding and causing direct financial harm to my business. Due to this error, our account remains unverified, which is preventing us from launching our web application. What I've done: Opened support ticket #2512180010000713 on 18 December 2025 Provided HAR file and PSR recording as requested Submitted escalation request (was merged into original ticket without action) Support response: Every 2 days I receive an identical message: "Your issue is under review currently. As soon as we have an update, we will inform you." No actual investigation, no timeline, no resolution. Is anyone from Microsoft able to look into this? Has anyone else experienced this issue or have advice on how to escalate effectively? Thank you.
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