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What are the funding options available w.r.t Fabric?
We are planning to conduct Fabric In a Day and trying to do few POCs in our key accounts. Can you please share what are the funding options available w,r.t Fabric opportunity. I have referred Microsoft Commerce Partner Incentives Oct'24.pdf sheet and taken note of that. But if we can get more details on all the funding options available that would be helpful.
A question about Business Central availability
Microsoft announced the end of sales of Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise last year. Business Central Cloud is the only option for new customers after 4/1/2025 (if they wish to purchase Business Central) in most of the countries. But how about China? Does anyone know if Microsoft has a plan to release Business Central Cloud in China? F.Y.I. I have confirmed with the APOC operation team that the existing NAV customers are allowed to transition to Business Central on-premise after 4/1/2025.Issues with Indirect Reseller account and Global Account
Hi Everyone, We are both Microsoft customers and indirect resellers. Since both roles cannot be managed within the same tenant, we created a new account as suggested by Microsoft Support. However, the new tenant and the old one are operating under the same MPN. On the new account, we have been confirmed for the indirect reseller program. Unfortunately, the link between the indirect reseller account and the global account has not been established. When we add customers to the indirect reseller account, we cannot see them on the global account, even after six weeks. Given that programs like Partner Programs use metrics such as “Net Customer Adds,” we are concerned that the measurement will not work correctly without the link between the indirect reseller account and the main account. When we attempted to connect the tenants using the associated tenant feature, an error occurred. We have created several support tickets, but the support teams are passing the issue back and forth, and no one seems to take responsibility. We have requested an escalation of the ticket to resolve the issue, but there appears to be no escalation process in place. How can we get this issue resolved? The support provided so far has not been helpful. Are there any other channels to obtain assistance from experienced Microsoft staff? Best regards, Mazlum
How can I create a marketplace offer without prices / plans?
We would like to offer our Manged software on the marketplace. However, we have different pricing structures that depend on many factors and are often negotiated directly. So how can we offer our product (Manged Software) on the marketplace without directly setting a price plan?
Community Calls for Azure - how to access?
Hi there, I work for a partner and I'm seeking information about how to get notification of the Azure Community Calls. I note that these previously seem to have been posted publicly on the web, but I haven't seen any links to sign up to these at any point since June. Can someone help? Thanks, ChrisDeveloper Verification 1. Sept - 28. Nov 2024 (solved)
First of all today it seems like we got verified as developer - yet it doesn't feel like time to party for us. Because next we need to test if the hardware program works at all or if it's as flawed as the rest of the Partner Portal. We started the process in September 2024, it was a very rough ride with Microsoft. The Microsoft Partner Portal is full with bugs and when opening tickets Microsoft doesn't really fix them. Don't try to fix problems by yourself you will just run into more problem (eg. removing the certificate or even removing the hardware program from an account - don't remove anything from an account by yourself because it doesn't work properly it will leave traces in the database which will lock out the particular features). The entire process is useless from my point of view, Microsoft does a more extensive company review than the Certification Authority - so why require the EV Certificate at all? The only answer Microsoft can give is we don't want to interrupt the money flow to the Certification Authority. The Microsoft support is ridiculous - max one email per day / max 5 days a week and not much useful.How long the Business Central environment remains as it is after subscription is expired?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/subscriptions/what-if-my-subscription-expires?view=o365-worldwide When investigating about this topic, it is often confused with "how long customers can access to the database even Microsoft support team. In fact, we were once told that the database (environment) will be destroyed step by step 30days after subscription is expired. However, this document explains that "the data will be deleted after 90days". Does this mean Business Central environment remains for 90days as it is and will be deleted after 90days? Are customers able to use the same environment without issue if they re-purchase the license within 90days after the subscription is expired?
Cant enroll in programs nor contact support properly.
Hello i have been trying to enroll in the Microsoft partner program for the Xbox and market place. however I keep being denied due to some kind of error on microsofts end due to the fact that I cant reach support as I have no workspaces capable of selection in the little contact support form. I am attempting to ask someone to help me speak to an agent so that my account can be enrolled and maybe even given the global admin permissions it is supposed to have aswell hopeful for future correspondence j greenDeveloper Verification 23. Nov 2024
Another week has passed, our current status - Verification Cancelled ... by whom? No one knows. Before we received this email: Afterwards I checked our status in the portal: Yesterday's status: I ha.te this so much ... since September we are doing this nonsense, 2 days ago I was asked to verify our company email..... there should be a button send verification .. well it was just not in our portal account. They added more nonsense to this we had to modify the domain name entry and add some MS specific information to it... good we did it but ...WHAT FOR?? We just want to release a signed driver nothing else. How many years will this go on? Now we're heading to 3 months with this Microsoft Partner Portal sh.it. Developer Verification 16. Nov 2024: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/partnercomplianceforum/developer-verification-16th-november-2024/4299182 Developer Verification 9. Nov 2024: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/partnercomplianceforum/developer-verification-9th-november-2024/4289632Issues with Cloud Partner Account
Hello all, I am having an issue enrolling as a cloud partner. When I attempt to enroll I get the below error. "The legal entity already exists for the given cid(s) 1277fe1e-4215-4d02-889c-23682f285884. Please contact support. (ReferenceId: d9203b26-8131-4690-c48e-08dcffbf2b44)" I believe this is saying that my business is essentially already a partner, however when I go the partner portal to put submit a ticket I am unable to because it says I need a workspace. I attempt to enroll in a program and the entire cycle starts over again. I have been to the partner support page as well, and all it does is redirect me to the partner portal where I am unable to submit a ticket. When I go to memberships, I receive the below error. There was an error while loading your data. Please try again later or contact support, if the issue persists. Correlationid: 78babd44-9e30-4770-bf6d-c177ab59620f Timestamp: 18 Nov 2024 23:28:38 GMT I click on "contact support" and, you guessed it, I am not able to submit a support ticket. Has anyone else experienced this? I would like to enroll my business as a CSP. Could someone help with this please?
Stuck setting up our legal business profile for almost 2 months
We are trying to submit our Microsoft Word Add-on app for approval. When trying to set up our partner center Legal business profile, we've run into repeated business errors. The biggest issue is our Developer info. We've submitted our domain registration, ownership, GoDaddy domain portfolio, and even our articles of incorporation, but cannot get anyone to help us move past the employment verification stage. We've checked multiple times that the information we submitted matches our domain registration. At this point, we're out of ideas and could really use some help from someone at Microsoft. We've tried submitting support tickets (4 total) and all we got were copy+paste requests asking for the information we already submitted. This has been going on for over a month. Also, our Partner page is stuck on identity verification and has been pending for days.Level Up CSP Renew and Upsell Sales and Technical Bootcamps
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