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Legacy silver benefits end date ?
Hello, We renewed our Silver Benefits, now called Legacy Silver Benefits, in January 2023 and we are (were?) very satisfied with this program. Our company cannot complete the requirements needed by the new Solutions Partner designation and it won't be possible in the future for some reasons. We would like to continue with he Legacy Silver program but, so far, no end date was communicated about it. Would it be possible to renew again in 2024, 2025, 2026, etc? This is very important for us and we would like to have a status about this from Microsoft because I don't find anything so far. Regards
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MrMVDT
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Jul 10, 2023
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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.
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Hrvoje Kusulja
MVP
Jan 29, 2026
benefits
maicpp
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New MCPP Subscription in Azure
Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong forum. Earlier this year I renewed my Action Pack subscription and had to link my billing profile at the same time. Once that had gone through, I noticed that I had a new Azure subscription called 'MCPP Subscription' I still also have my Microsoft Partner Network subscription which has all my resource groups etc in. My query is what is this new subscription? Should I start using it? My credits are linked to the old MPN subscription. I've not been able to find anything so far about it either on general internet searches or this community. many thanks
Finntec
Copper Contributor
May 09, 2024
Azure AD
tech question or issue
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New benefits availability
Just wondering if anyone knows when the new partner benefits, which were supposed to be available from January 22, 2025, will actually show up in the Partner Center? I still can't see them.
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Uba
Copper Contributor
Jan 23, 2025
benefits
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ICYMI: New Partner Blog | Updated partner benefits
You asked, we listened. Your updated partner benefits are here! Microsoft is excited to announce big changes to our benefits offerings that better align with partner needs. Continue reading here Be sure to follow the partner news blog for all new announcements. :)
JillArmourMicrosoft
Community Manager
Jan 22, 2025
benefits
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ECIF Funding Eligibility
Hello Microsoft Tech Community! We are Serraform a new Microsoft Partner specializing in Security & Compliance and have a question on End Customer Investment Funds (ECIF) funding. Hoping someone can help us. How to we become eligible to accept ECIF funding for our M365 Security & Compliance deployments? Is satisfying the requirements for a Solutions Partner designation sufficient, that is achieving 70 of 100 points in 1 of the 6 partner categories + achieving more than zero points in each of the 4 metrics? We are in talks with a few prospects and they are interested in leveraging ECIF. Any guidance would be super helpful. Thanks! Aaron
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AaronSerraform
Copper Contributor
Jul 17, 2023
benefits
MCPP
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Azure Bulk Credits (Production)
Can Partner Success Expanded Benefits Azure Bulk Credits (Production) Be Attached to an Existing Subscription? The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Benefits Guide mentions that Partner Success Expanded Benefits give $4000 Azure Bulk Credits (Production). I've looked through the FAQs and documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/membership/partner-success-core-benefits however, the context does not specify whether these credits can be directly applied to an existing production subscription or if they must be used with a separate Azure Sponsored Subscription. Can those credits be applied to an existing production subscription? It seems logical due to the fact that the name of the benefit is Azure Bulk Credits (Production). I need to have an official confirmation. Thanks in advance.
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Sabina365
Copper Contributor
Dec 04, 2024
benefits
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Office pro 2021 for Microsoft action pack
Does anyone know when/if Office Pro 2021 will be available to download from the benefits?
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Dennis13
Copper Contributor
Jul 24, 2023
benefits
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Microsoft Action Pack - what to consider?
Hi, We are now considering about buying the Action Pack to replace the current Office 365 licenses, excluding the Basic licenses, but the ones with desktop applications (converting those to basic licenses). I understand that there's a hard limit of ten users. What other aspects should we consider before actually buying the Action Pack? I specifically want to avoid things like "I didn't know that..." or "I thought that..." that could occur after buying. The 30 day refund is otherwise a great feature, but if we try this with one user, so take basic Office 365 instead of the Standard (or what is it called?) license and install Office Professional from the Action Pack, I understood the refund is instantly impossible.
ArtoKilponen
Copper Contributor
Apr 08, 2024
BizApps
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Queries related to ECIF
Hi, I came to know that inorder to be ECIF eligible, one has to be a registered Microsoft Supplier under Microsoft Procurement. Could you please help me with some information on how to complete the application to be a Microsoft Supplier. In the site for Microsoft Procurement, they have provided the MSA and the code of conduct but there has to be a procedure to be followed. Can you help me with some information?
Surabhi_96
Copper Contributor
Feb 13, 2024
ECIF
Microsoft Supplier
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