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Join the Fabric Partner Community for an AMA with Arun Ulag!
🚨 Mark your calendars now! 📅 New this year in the Fabric Partner Community, an AMA (Ask Me Anything) call series with members of the Fabric Leadership Team! 🥳 Arun Ulag, CVP of Azure Data, will kick of this new call series Thursday, September 25, from 8-9 am PT. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask all your questions, including those related to the announcements made at #FabConEurope, provide your feedback, and more! 👏 To join theses calls, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams Channel. Not yet part of the Fabric Partner Community? Join now by submitting the form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity.Join the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft partner that is interested in data and analytics? Be sure to join us for this week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls! 🎉 Jia Ma will be providing a deep dive on Real-Time Hub and Jenny Jiang will be sharing the latest monitoring updates for Spark jobs. The Americas & EMEA call will take place Wednesday, September 10, from 8-9 am PT and the APAC call is Thursday, September 11, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, September 10, from 5-6 pm PT. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To join the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. We look forward to seeing you next week!REGISTER: FY26 Microsoft Elevate Nonprofit Partner Kickoff | Sept 10th
REMINDER - Join us for the FY26 Microsoft Elevate Nonprofit Virtual Partner Kickoff taking place on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 - This event is your launchpad into a year of opportunity, innovation, and impact! This event is designed to equip you and partner ecosystem, with strategic insights, actionable tools, and direction needed to lead and grow this year: Discover what’s new with Microsoft Elevate Gain clarity on the FY26 priorities Learn how to align your business to drive greater customer value and market momentum. REGISTER for the date that best fits your region and feel free to forward this invite to your teams: AMERICAS/EMEA SESSION 📍 Wednesday, September 10, 2025 🕚 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT 🌐 Register for virtual event ASIA SESSION 📍 Thursday, September 11, 2025 🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 AM AEST 🌐 Register for virtual event Let's Build Momentum together for a transformative FY26!NEWSLETTER: Nonprofit Partner Community Update | September 2025
Welcome to the September Edition of the Microsoft Elevate Nonprofit Partner Community Update! Download the Nonprofit Partner Community Update | September 2025! Here’s what you'll find this month: FY26 Microsoft Elevate Nonprofit Partner Kickoff. Register to join us for the official launch of FY26! This virtual event will equip you with strategic insights, tools, and direction to accelerate nonprofit impact and innovation. New Nonprofit Events Website. Explore the newly launched customer-facing site that aggregates free virtual and in-person events hosted by Microsoft and select partners. Filter by region, topic, audience role, and more. Promote Your Event on Microsoft.com/Nonprofits. Submit your partner-led events for inclusion on Microsoft’s nonprofit event calendar and amplify your reach through our demand generation engine. FY26 End Customer Investment Funds (ECIF) Program. Microsoft’s FY26 ECIF program enables partners to deliver high-impact services that accelerate solution adoption and customer success—at no cost to the customer.Partner Know Before You Go to the 2025 European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
We can’t wait to see you at FabCon Europe 2025, taking place 15-18 September at the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria! With more than 130 expert-led sessions over three days, plus workshops 15 September, this is the largest Microsoft tech conference in Europe! Our team has been hard at work planning several partner-exclusive activities throughout the event, to help ensure the best experience possible for you, our valued partners. This Know Before You Go guide will provide all the details on how to participate in: Partner Day Partner Happy Hour 1:1 Meetings Partner Booth at Ask the Experts Partner AMA Partner Photo Scavenger Hunt Cvent Event App If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to our team at mailto:FabricPartnersTeam@microsoft.com or through the Cvent app. See you very soon! Complete details and entry form are available at https://aka.ms/FabConEuropePartnerPhotoHunt.
Driving innovation securely: Partnering for a safer digital future
As cybersecurity threats grow in scale and complexity, a key question continues to guide our conversations with Microsoft partners and customers: How can we protect our data and systems without slowing innovation? This is the mission behind the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)—a focused effort to help organizations turn security insight into practical action. To support this, we've introduced SFI patterns and practices, designed to equip partners and customers with actionable guidance for building more secure solutions. We’re also doubling down on our AI-first security platform, which spans identity, threat protection, data security, and compliance. The goal? Empower customers to innovate confidently with AI, knowing their environments are protected. And we recognize that our partners are essential to making that happen. With over 1 million customers already using Microsoft Security solutions, the opportunity for partners to differentiate and grow their business is greater than ever. Microsoft processes more than 84 trillion security signals daily, giving us unmatched insight into the threat landscape—and together with the expertise of our 15,000+ security partners, we’re well-positioned to secure what’s next. Read the full article hereSecurity innovation starts here: Explore Microsoft's FY26 solution play
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, the challenge is clear: how do we protect data and systems without slowing innovation? Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is our answer - and now, with newly released SFI patters and practices, partners have a blueprint to turn security strategy into real world impact. We're doubling down on our AI-first security platform - spanning identity, threat protection, data security, and compliance - so customers can innovate confidently with AI. Developers and software development companies play a pivotal role in enabling this transformation. With over a million customers already using Microsoft Security solutions and visibility into 84 trillion daily signals, the opportunity to build differentiated, high-impact solutions has never been greater. Add your expertise to our partner ecosystem of 15,000+ security specialists, and let's shape a more secure future together. With over a million customers already using Microsoft Security solutions and visibility into 84 trillion daily signals, the opportunity to build differentiated, high-impact solutions has never been greater. Add your expertise to our partner ecosystem of 15,000+ security specialists, and let’s shape a more secure future together Read the full article hereAccess Restricted Error On Partner Center Dashboard
Hi all, As mentioned in the last community call, we're seeing some users get an "Access Restricted" error when they try to access the Training Services Partner dashboard on Partner Center. This is not impacting your KPIs, just your view to those KPIs. Thanks to everyone who messaged me with their details after the call. I've compiled the errors and sent to the engineering team for further investigation. I will update you here when there is news to share.September 5 Update: Issue with Achievement Code Creation
September 5 Update: Engineering is progressing on a fix. The soonest we would see proper functionality is end of next week (around the 12th). I will provide an additional update then. August 27 Update: Engineering is working on this and the right people are involved. Not to get too into the weeds, but it's a database migration issue across two distinct teams. They understand the urgency, and I'll bring you more updates as soon as I receive them. August 14 Update: The issue has been identified. I do not yet have a time to resolution to share but will update here when I know more. August 8 Update: We are aware there is an issue with newly onboarded partners attempting to access achievement codes for the first time. We are working on the issue but do not currently have timing on a solution. I will update here when more information becomes available. Thanks.
Employment Verification Stuck – Need Help
My Partner Center account keeps getting stuck at the Employment Verification step. Account type: Company Verification status: Rejected at Employment Verification I have already submitted all required documents (business registration, domain invoice, ID proof). My company name matches across Partner Center, domain invoice, and WHOIS (privacy disabled). Email and identity verification were completed successfully. But the system still rejects the Employment Verification without giving details. The Fix Now button just shows rejection with no clear reason. Also it is showing Document uploaded successfully, please wait 3-5 business days for verification of your documents. But its been more than 8 days now. Can someone please let me know how can i contact verification team as i don't have option to created support ticket. Thanks in advance!Office hours: Strategic cloud planning with the Microsoft Marketplace
**New Date: September 16, 2025 | 8:30 AM PDT Encourage your marketplace customers to join us live on August 26th for a special Office Hours session led by Kristyn_Maddox: Strategic Cloud Planning with the Microsoft Marketplace Learn how to strategically plan Microsoft Cloud investments Discover how software vendors can gain a consumption-based view of your portfolio Get tips on leveraging pre-committed cloud budgets Maximize value from existing contracts Bring your questions, share your experiences, and engage directly with Microsoft experts. Note: while this session is geared towards customers, partners are also welcome to attend. Register hereTech Talks presents: Fabric Data Agents in Action: From Fabric to Microsoft Copilot Studio
Join us on Thursday, September 4th at 8am PT as Amir Jafari, Senior Product Manager, Data Science R&D presents 'Fabric Data Agents in Action: From Fabric to Microsoft Copilot Studio '. Learn how to create and configure Fabric Data Agents to harness the power of generative AI in Microsoft Fabric. You’ll discover how to tailor these agents to your data, integrate them seamlessly across the Microsoft ecosystem, and follow best practices for setup, domain specialization, and grounding strategies. You will also learn how to connect your agents with Copilot Studio, Teams to power advanced multi-agent solutions that unlock intelligent, domain-aware experiences across your organization. We hope to see you there! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording
Access restricted
I was banned from the system without any justification. I spent six months struggling to get approval without ever using the service once. Now I face another six months trying to get my ban lifted, and they're telling me that if I pay $16,500 annually for support services, they'll help me. This system is absolutely ridiculous. When I was banned, I received no notification, no message, no email, nothing. I only got a response after submitting four support tickets. Now I suppose I'll need to submit another 50 tickets just to try to get my ban reversed. Microsoft is truly a terrible company
To Start journey as Training service partner
We have already enrolled the Training service partner. Now we are looking in to 3 parameters ie: Courseware completions. Exam unit purchases. Average response score. So associating an MCT learn profile in partner center will give the scores in above three parameters. Basically we need to achieve the above 3, we need to know what are the pre-requisites and steps to achieve the achievement code. Please let us know do we need to link the MCT account (created with personal account ie: Gmail) in partner center.Can't add payment method to pay for Microsoft Store enrollment
I am trying to get enrolled to distributing my Windows app through the Microsoft Store. So I head over to partner.microsoft.com/dashboard and I press the "Enroll in programs" button: And then the: "Windows, Get started" button: Then I login with my personal account, which is required for this program. Then I choose "Windows and Xbox": Then I'm directed to either enter promo code (which I don't have) or to add a debet or credit card, (which I choose). I press "Add a new payment method" and enter in my card details, along with extra info it's asking for, and then when I hit "Save", I get this error below (But see further below, for the actual error from F12/Developer tools, which seems indicate a different issue) : Developer tools / F12 has this failing record in there: Request URL : https://paymentinstruments.mp.microsoft.com/v6.0/users/me/paymentInstrumentsEx?country=dk&language=en-US&partner=payin&billableAccountId=kZYybAIAAAAAAAAA&completePrerequisites=True Request Method : POST Status Code : 400 Bad Request Remote Address : 13.107.246.44:443 Referrer Policy : strict-origin-when-cross-origin Now, just to make sure, I have went through these additional steps: Tried with another browser (Edge, fully updated) - same error. Tried from another PC (actually 4 different PCs) - same error. Tried with a Macbook - same error. Tried from my remote PC in a another country - same error. Raised an issue with Microsoft support (this was 5 days ago now) - no response from support, except form "we received your support ticket" email. Tried from another personal Microsoft account - same error. Tried with a colleague, using their personal account and their PC - same error. Tried 3-4 different payment cards - same error. Anyone have any clue on this error? Is the Microsoft Store not a valid route forward anymore, for enrolling new software developers/vendors? Or is this Tenant-based perhaps? I could of course just buy a more expensive code signing certificate and then try to distribute the software through my own website, but that's not the ideal way forward. I really would like to get this working on the Microsoft Store if at all possible. Really hope this issue is resolvable...Power Platform Partner Community Tech Talks Call Series (Updated Invite)
Attend the weekly Power Platform Partner Community Call to: Gain in-depth knowledge on the latest Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio & Power Pages technical and partner programmatic updates Learn about opportunities and resources for training and certification Interact, learn, and share with peers and Microsoft SMEs How to Join: Calls take place every Thursday at 8am Pacific Time Download or use the following link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite Don't miss this opportunity to hear the latest Power Platform Technical news from Engineering!Unlocking Marketplace Value Through Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Vision
As the cloud and AI landscape evolves, so do the opportunities for marketplace partners. The first installment of Microsoft’s new Cloud and AI blog series lays the groundwork for how partners can align with Microsoft’s solution areas to drive customer impact and business growth. This post explores: The strategic role of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program How solution plays and co-sell motions are being streamlined What this means for partners building and scaling in the commercial marketplace Whether you're an ISV, SI, or managed services provider, this series is designed to help you navigate the AI-powered future with clarity and confidence. Read more hereScaling innovation with Copilot: Partner success in focus
AI agents are no longer a future vision—they’re reshaping how work gets done today. Systems integrators are scaling innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agentic AI to deliver measurable outcomes across industries. From orchestrating multi-agent solutions that boost service desk efficiency by 30%, to improving customer satisfaction by 15%, partners like NTT DATA are demonstrating what’s possible when Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program come together. Whether you're building for the commercial marketplace or enabling customers through services, this spotlight is packed with insights on how to: Leverage Copilot extensibility across low-code and pro-code environments Accelerate customer value with intelligent agent orchestration Tap into Microsoft’s partner resources to scale your impact Read more about it here
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