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Questions Regarding New CSP Authorization Enforcement Policies
I have the following questions about the scenario in which a direct bill partner does not meet the new requirements at the CSP tenant anniversary date: Restricted Status vs. Suspension/Revocation: Until recently, official documents indicated that at T+0, a direct bill partner would move to "Restricted" status, allowing them to continue billing and renewing existing customers, but not create new customers or subscriptions, for an indefinite period. This also allowed a reasonable timeframe for transition to indirect CSP. Now, the new enforcement policies state that at T+30, the tenant is placed in "Suspended" status, and at T+60, it is "Revoked," with no further possibility to operate on active customers and their subscriptions—even in cases where subscriptions have already been paid for annual or annual/monthly contracts. Could you clarify the reason for this change and the rationale behind the new, stricter enforcement timeline? Customer Transition Feasibility: How does Microsoft expect all customers to be transferred to an indirect provider within just 30–60 days after T+0? Is there any support or guidance for partners to manage such a rapid transition? Because in my opinion is not feasible and could be a potential risk to loose customers business. Prepaid Subscriptions: Even if it were possible to transfer all customers within the required timeframe, has Microsoft considered that many of these subscriptions have already been prepaid for an entire year or are in the middle of an annuality with monthly payments by the direct bill partner to Microsoft? We appreciate your attention to these concerns and look forward to your guidance on how to best manage compliance and customer impact under the new policies. My personal opinion is that is immediately necessary to restore the process as before with the Restricted Status if Direct Bill are not satisfied and give time (one year) to the partner to move to indirect provider all the customers/subscriptions. Thank you in advance for your support.
Partner Enablement Calls for CSP Partners!
Microsoft invites you to our CSP Partner Enablement Series, where we’ve combined the CSP Community call and the CSP Technical Training call and into a single, streamlined call. This new format brings together high priority partner updates, technical/adoption enablement, and best practices into one cohesive experience, making it easier for partners to stay informed and prepare for change. You are welcome to access old calls or join future ones! CSP Partner Enablement series
Pending Oct 1 Direct Bill requirement changes.
Has anyone figured out a way to move Azure Plan subscriptions from Direct CSP to Indirect CSP without incurring customer downtime? Microsofts stance on this is absurd. Move and rebuild resources in a new Azure Plan subscription because technically Microsoft cannot reassign billing and they cornered all their new as of last year direct bill partners into tripling their revenue in 5 months with their May 2025 announcement. (300k to 1M) My clients have resources deployed that are supported but discontinued for new deployments and have global resources that cannot be subscription moved. None of this work was planned in their development budgets. I'm supposed to give them an extended, unplanned downtime so that their subscriptions are not locked due to these new Direct bill requirements. Every part of this move requires downtime in operations that was not requested by my customers. They will not look at the business continuity outage Microsoft is causing them favorably. Has anyone made any headway towards a reasonable solution to the problem. Thanks Derek LicciardiCSP Indirect Reseller Status Deactivated – Guidance Needed
Hello, In Partner Center, our CSP Indirect Reseller status is currently showing as Deactivated. Because of this, we are unable to manage customers or subscriptions. I would like to know: What are the common reasons this Deactivation occurs? What corrective actions are typically required to reactivate the reseller status? Should this be handled directly with Microsoft Partner Support, or escalated through the assigned indirect provider? Any guidance or best practices from the community would be very helpful. Thank you.
Microsoft CSP Licensing Webinar
Hi all. A technology organisation I know, Core Technology Systems, is running a free Microsoft CSP Licensing webinar on Thursday, 11th September at 11AM (GMT). This webinar will cover various CSP topics, including how CSP helps you scale flexibly and cost-effectively, upsell and cross-sell opportunities, as well as understanding what CSP is (for those who are fairly new to CSP and would generally like to learn more). If anyone would be interested in watching it, you can register by filling in the form at this link: https://www.core.co.uk/webinar-an-introduction-to-microsoft-csp Please remove this post if it's not allowed. Thanks all :-)
