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Azure marketplace offer questions
I have created an Azure Marketplace offer with a flat fee pricing model and added dimensions, where the usage is based on the user count. The payment is set to a monthly schedule. Example I have configured a dimension in my Azure Marketplace offer to calculate billing based on the number of users in my SaaS application. For example: If the SaaS application has 10 users, the billing will be calculated as 10 users × $19 = $190. If the user count changes (e.g., from 10 users in January to 8 users in February), I will report the updated user count as usage. This ensures the billing reflects the exact number of active users each month. Questions: How it will work on Azure Marketplace offer and per the below offer plan and how invoice will be generated? If I report usage daily, will the charges be calculated on a daily basis, or will they be aggregated for the month? Do I need to send usage on daily basis or once in a month? Where can I view the total usage reported to date in the Azure portal? Below is screenshot of my test plan
Work with Unmanaged Accounts – France
Hello everyone, I am trying to find a sales representative who I can discuss a customer opportunity with. The customer is unmanaged and located in France. In the US, there is aPartner-led Sales Resource <email address removed for privacy reasons> that works with such requests. Is there anything similar in the EMEA? Your help would be much appreciated 🙂Before linking you must first complete at least one exam or certification
Dear Microsoft Microsoft partners gains awesome insights from learners skilling progress AND certifications under Insights in Partner Center! Hence we guide our learners when "creating" their personal Microsoft Learn accounts to associate to the partnership - already when creating the Learn account. Both to do the association to get the ESI-discount (now that association is also needed to have users showing up in ESI-insights unfortunately, as this change interferes with other processes to cross-check ESI users with actually associated accounts to the partnership) as well as associating to our partnership (already when creating the account, for FUTURE tracking in MAICPP programs!) Why have you now made also this dramatically change for your partners, that interferes with our smoothly working processes? I assume you didn´t even check with the partner community before making this change! "Before linking your Microsoft Learn profile to your Partner Center account, you must first complete at least one exam or certification in your Microsoft Learn profile." This and other recent changes really complex an already complex management of the partnership and fulfilment/maintenence of MAICPP! Gabriel Yttermalm Alliance Manager Microsoft for Digital Services Europe (business line of Orange Business)
Azure Specialization Query
Hello, We are a solutions partner that is looking at obtaining a couple of advanced specializations in the Azure tracks. I have a couple of queries that I think are unclear from the checklists: In the case of required evidence from customer projects for the various controls in the audit checklist, is it acceptable to have evidence from multiple customers for the various controls? Or do we need to satisfy the requirements across all controls for the same set of customers? Believe that customer projects cited across Module A and B can be different. Pls confimr my understanding. Is there a standard template available from/recommended by MSFT that is available for documentary evidence? Asking this for assets likeProject Plan, Functional Specifications, Solution Design Documents, Architectural Diagram etc Also are all of these required evidences mandatory for fulfilling the requirement of each control? Or do we provide some of them? I know this post is long, but any direction/guidance here would be sincerely appreciated. Thx!
Azure plan transfer between partners with Marketplace subscription
Hi folks We are facing a partner-to-partner CSP transition - we are the new partner, and we found out that the customer has a Sendgrid marketplace subscription from the previous partner. Do you know if this is a straightforward transfer, or does it fall under the marketplace limitations listed here:Transfer Azure subscriptions, reservations, or savings plans (under an Azure plan) to another CSP partner - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn Thank you
Becoming a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner
I am looking for help with completing the process for signing my company up as a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner. I have been directed tohttps://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/partnership,where I select "Become a Partner". I go through the process as instructed but hit a dead end when I arrive at the "Join a program..." page. Note that this page offers only two options (Bethesda Partner Program, Windows and Xbox), neither of which is appropriate for me and both of which I am not eligible to join (even if I wanted to). For the program for which I am interested (Microsoft AI Cloud Partner) the page says "...Sign in again using your work account." So it may be that the site does not recognize my account as a work account. Unfortunately, the instructions provided for creating a work account (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/mpn-overviewandhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/intro-to-cloud-partner-program-membership) direct me back to the partner page at the beginning of this post. So I am stuck in an infinite loop. I have reached out to partner support, Azure support and Azure sales. Everyone directs me to the same above referenced partner page and/or advises me to log a support request. When I did the latter I received a response with a link to the same partner page. I would greatly appreciate any guidance beyond a link to the partner page that is not working for me. I acknowledge that the root cause MAY be my own user error. But a few minutes with a knowledgable guide would be a lot more productive than many hours of detective work.
Penalty when cancelling an Azure Reserved Instance PAYG subscription
Dear community, We are an Indirect Provider in CSP located in Greece, and we have the following requests from one of our partners: 1. Could you kindly advise if our partners can cancel all the existing RIs with immediate effect? 2.If the answer on point 1 yes and they can do so, then will there be a cancellation fee/penalty upon cancelling the Reserved Instances? Thank you in advance for your prompt response as we need to sort it the soonest! Best regards,"The Future of AI" Upcoming hybrid meeting with Microsoft Texas Client Director on panel!
You're invited to join us in-person or virtually on May 23! IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) TOLA Chapter (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas) rotates monthly and hosts chapter meetings in Austin, Houston and Dallas. All meetings are hybrid and anyone is welcome to attend, no matter where you are! Our May 23rd meeting: The Future of AI and Its Impact on Your Organization Artificial intelligence (AI) will change every aspect of digital work in the coming decade. AI’s reach will proliferate in your organization and those of your partners, customers, and rivals, thanks to continued advances in hardware, software, analytics, and the ability to scale these changes. Join IAMCP for an interactive panel discussion with key business leaders to explore how their respective organizations are using or planning to use AI to advance and improve organization productivity. You will get the opportunity to interact with our panel and discuss the impact of planning, budgeting, and challenges of AI implementation. Our Panel: Stephen Elkins - Texas Client Director – Microsoft Ricardo Blanco - Deputy Executive Commissioner for IT and Chief Information Officer at Texas Health and Human Services Tim Weinheimer – Chief Innovations Officer at Hahn Labs Join us online or in-person (lunch included) in Austin at the Microsoft office - 10900 Stonelake Blvd., Suite B-225 Austin, TX 78759 11:30am-1:00pm CST Register Here > Not a member of IAMCP? You can still attend for $30 or, as a new member, join for $1 for your first 90 days! I myself have been a member of IAMCP for about 2+ years and I'm the Secretary of the Houston chapter. There are plenty of other virtual meetings every month covering all topics concerning partners. It's a great way to understand the ecosystem, how to gain designations and credentials, and find partner to partner opportunities.Old Usage-Based Pricelists
Dear Community, We are an Indirect Provider in CSP, and we are facing an issue that has its roots in the past. Based on this, we need to find past usage-based pricelists of Azure. Does anyone of you perhaps keep historical records of the Azure prices excel as it gets published every month by Microsoft? Weneed the 3 Pricelist Excels published between August-October (inclusive) 2022 for charges to occur between September-November (inclusive) 2022, respectively! We would definetely be eternally grateful if you have them! Much appreciated in advance for your help. Best, Nick
