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Register now for the Migrate to Innovate Summit
Join the summit on March 11, presented in partnership with Intel. Stay agile, innovate for the future, and maintain a competitive edge by accelerating your cloud migration and modernization journey. Microsoft thought leaders will discuss the latest news and trends, showcase real-world case studies, and share how Azure can help you fully embrace AI. Join us to: Maximize business value and build the foundation for successful innovation by leveraging the latest Azure and Intel capabilities for your workloads. Dive into case studies and real-world examples showcasing how organizations have successfully transformed their business and how you can be next by migrating and modernizing on Azure. Make sure your cloud migration and modernization journey is using the best practices and strategies featured in product demonstrations. Register now > Migrate to Innovate Summit Tuesday, March 11, 2025 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Unlocking Success as an Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP)
Advanced Support for Partner's Evangelist Giselle Alaniz recently posted a new blog article about the Azure Expert MSP Program on LinkedIn that we invite you to read. Read the full article here. Azure Expert MSP is an elite program that only accepts the top-notch Azure managed services providers. It gives you access to many perks, such as a special badge, preferential referrals, co-selling opportunities, and continuous support from Microsoft. In the blog post you will find the steps and requirements to join this exclusive club, as well as the benefits of being an Azure Expert MSP. You’ll discover how to differentiate yourself in the market, boost your capabilities, ace the audit, and keep up with the ongoing requirements. And remember, Giselle is one of four Advanced Support for Partners (ASfP) Evangelists who connect directly with Partners to discuss paid support and benefits to help cloud partners achieve success. If you want to speak with one of the ASfP Evangelists about the ASfP benefits, cloud growth, and technical enablement, complete this form today. -- Advanced Support for Partners (ASfP) is an economically priced Microsoft Partner offering that provides unmatched value to partners through a wide range of benefits including account management, technical cloud enablement consultations, and an elevated technical support experience across the Microsoft Cloud, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and the Power Platform. To learn more.. Book a meeting with an ASfP Evangelist Download the ASfP Fact Sheet View the ASfP Impact Slide Visit the ASfP website Stop by the ASfP Partner Community
Accelerating Azure’s edge capabilities through collaborative partnerships
Today, we announced the new category of Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI. These turnkey solutions are designed to accelerate the deployment of Azure Stack HCI and greatly reduce the dock to rack timing to install the necessary infrastructure for your operational transformation. As of today, the Azure Stack HCI catalog features this premier solution category with the new Dell Apex Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI offer significant deployment and management time reduction to set up entire fleets of systems. Additionally, these turnkey solutions offer: Deepest integration and highest level of automation, built through deep engineering collaboration between Microsoft and solution partners. Continuous testing by Microsoft and our partners, to ensure higher reliability and minimal downtime. End-to-end deployment workflows that make it easy to deploy one cluster or a thousand clusters. Read today’s announcement in the Azure Blog https://aka.ms/ashci-premiersolutionsblog
Exported records for Marketplace Private offers
Hello Team, My partner would like to have an export/ Private Offer record for the private offers that customers accept in Azure Marketplace transactions. Is there such a functionality/ who could help creating one if also meaningful for you? Additional Partner Info:...we are not the only partners transacting via Private Offer functionality, who need a clear documented record of the private offer acceptance, other than the green check-marks in the Partner Center. However, so far it seems there is no built in functionality.Welcome to the Azure Partners Tech Community!
Welcome to the NEW Azure Partners Tech Community! This vibrant community is a centralized platform for Azure Partners to engage with each other and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to grow their business. It is a central destination for thought leadership on business best practices, Partner news, education, events, and new business opportunities. Get started by subscribing from the top right-hand corner! Community Guidelines DO: Be positive, kind, and curious. “Kudo” posts and ask questions. Be friendly with others on the network. Feel free to provide feedback, but keep it constructive. Search before you post! There is a chance that your question has already been answered. The search function on this platform is very powerful - take advantage of it! Keep private matters private. Double-check to make sure you are posting confidential information responsibly and in the correct place. Add a profile picture and fill out your profile! It’s easy and quick and helps people discover you. Fine-tune your email notification preferences. Just head to your profile settings by clicking on the “Edit” button below your profile photo in the top right corner. Click “notifications” in the left navigation, and then navigate to the network/community of interest and adjust your settings as needed. DON’T: Use the Azure Partners community as a sales channel by posting content to solely promote your own products and solutions. Any solution created by our Partners, ready for sale, should be found on Azure Marketplace or AppSource. Post technical support questions. This community is a destination for partners to engage in business discussions. Post solicitation, spam, and/or content-free posts not related to Microsoft partners or products. This is a place for all of us to learn and discover each other, not a place to reach customers. Violators may be banned from the network. Be negative. Constructive feedback is good but avoid personal remarks, sarcasm, and blame. Wander off-topic. No posting about sports, religion, politics, or other things that don’t belong here. Share content from a private group. Respect your colleagues and our acceptable usage policy. Harvest user data. Some members may share personal information here. If you spam members from this network, Microsoft may take legal action.Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux
Dear Partners, Azure Hybrid benefit is a compelling advantage for running Linux workloads on Azure. What is Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux? Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing solution that lets you bring your Red Hat and Suse Linux Subscriptions directly to Azure, which customers may see savings estimated to up to 76% with Azure Hybrid for Linux How does it help? Eliminate software subscription costs at scale Save time with seamless post-development conversions Automatic image maintenance, updates and patches What does it do? Bi-directionally convert PAYG VMs to BYOS billing model Provides software updates and integrated support, directly from Azure Provides a unified user interface between Azure portal and CLI Who is it for? Azure customers running RHEL or SLES with RHEL or SLES subscriptions Attached is a customer facing deck. Please let us know in case you have any questions. Thanks. Regards, ShantanuAzure 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 planAzure 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 like Project 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!"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! https://www.iamcp.org/ (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 https://www.iamcp.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1859675&group= 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.
