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REMINDER: Partner of the Year Award nominations are due July 18, 2025
Have you started your nomination for this year’s Partner of the Year Awards? Nominations are due a week from today, so be sure to get your nominations in on time and vie for a chance to be named the Marketplace Partner of the Year! The deadline to submit is July 18, 2025, 6:00 PM, Pacific Time. Visit the Partner of the Year Awards webpage to learn more about the awards, access the nomination tool, get tips to create a winning entry, and find answers to your questions.
Partner payment error
The Partner Payment Center payment page does not properly process cards. The error I am receiving does not seem to be a valid error for credit cards: Payment failed due to insufficient balance. Please check with your bank or try again with a different card. My Card is in good standing. In the MS store I have no problem, just in the Partner payment page. I've cleared the browser cache and still get the same error.
Azure Marketplace - Could not Create marketplace item
I am trying to create a marketplace offering on Azure. After successfully going through the publishing process, when I click on my offering I just see this: The "Preview" works fine though. I uploaded an app icon which shows in the preview, so not really sure what Gallery item it's asking for.
Suggestions for improving the nonprofit grants and discount program
Over the last few years, a number of changes to the grants and discount program have taken a bit of the shine off the program (removal of Dynamics 365 Sales grants, Business Premium, Power BI Premium, retirement of Fundraising and Engagement). I wanted to offer some suggestions based on feedback from nonprofits and partners on small changes that could make an improvement to the program. Allow all nonprofit staff (including contracted staff) and volunteers to use grant offers (i.e. allowing nonprofits to assign granted Business Basic licences to volunteers) Increase the Microsoft 365 Copilot discount - many nonprofits still find the discounted cost prohibitively high Replace the 10 free 'Power Apps per app' with 10 free 'Power Apps Premium' - encouraging nonprofits to use the Power Platform more. Broaden your eligibility criteria to include Social Enterprises such as Community Interest Companies in the UK, Social Traders in Australia, etc Provide nonprofit staff and volunteers with free certification exams for foundational level topics (Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, etc) Let's make the program a leader in the sector again, especially for the smaller, resource-constrained nonprofits that do so much good. Thanks MattFY26 TSP Community Call Thread
We'll use this thread to post updates for TSP Community Calls, including calendar invites to upcoming calls and links to post-call decks and recordings. Please note: the folder linked after each call is a temporary repository while we wait to get the deck and recording uploaded to the Learning Resources site. These links expire after each subsequent call. Instead, you can find the last 12 months of call decks and recordings in our Community Call collection.New Training Services Partner Onboarding Update
Hello new TSPs. We are currently updating the onboarding process to provide better communications around process and timing. While we work to update, please send me a private message if you have completed the onboarding form and you are currently waiting on a response. I anticipate this workaround to last for a few weeks and for us to have a new process in place in January. Once the update is complete and the normal process resumes, I will delete this thread. Thanks, Dan2025 Training Serivces Partner of the Year - Nominate Jun 18 through Jul 18, 2025.
Hello TSPs, It's time again for the annual Partner of the Year Award event. Microsoft has dozens of partner awards across many categories. Our group manages the Training Services Partner of the Year Award. To be eligible for this award, your organization must have one or more badges in the Solutions Partner for Training Services designation as of June 1, 2025. Partners self-nominate for the award, submitting a summary of your accomplishments based on the prompts available in the awards guidelines. You can find the awards guidelines, as well as other helpful resources at the link above. The Training Services Partner of the Year Award prompts are on pages 69-70 of the guidelines document. Nominations are welcome June 18 through July 18, 2025 (6 PM Pacific). Each nomination is carefully reviewed and scored by a series of judges. Winners will be announced publicly on November 12, 2025. This is a great way to get your Microsoft training accomplishments front and center with the Worldwide Learning team. More information on the process can be found at the link above. Please let me know if you have any questions. Dan
Checking in: Microsoft AI Bootcamp For Educators
Hello TSP community! Liz Butowicz here from the Microsoft Worldwide Learning team checking in on those of you delivering the Microsoft AI Bootcamp for Educators to see how they are going, any feedback from customers, and if you have any questions. Looking forward to hearing from you!AI Bootcamps for Educators: Join now!
AI bootcamps for Educators – Join now! The Future Skilling team is excited to announce the launch of the new AI Bootcamp for Educators offering. We would like to partner with you to deliver the AI Bootcamp for Educators. The paid service offered by TSPs is flexible in duration (two to four days) and customized to the education institution’s need when they register with you for the bootcamp. Bootcamp content is based on AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals and AI-102: Designing and Implementing Azure AI Solutions. The bootcamp will be taught to educators by Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) from your network. You will have access to key teaching and learning resources to support the educator and their students in their AI learning journey, such as a comprehensive curriculum and additional learning. Call to action: Review the AI Bootcamps for Educators resources for TSPs: TSP support documents can be accessed from the following link aka.ms/MSLEAIbootcampTSP Register for TSP onboarding: Onboarding sessions to support TSP preparation to deliver the AI Bootcamps for Educators will be offered from late February through March. During these onboarding sessions TSPs will get an in-depth overview of the AI Bootcamps and its resources. Registrants will be sent a Teams Live link to join the onboarding session. Join using the aka links included below: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024; 10AM CET; aka.ms/TSPbootcampOnboarding1 Wednesday, February 21st, 2024; 10AM PST; aka.ms/TSPbootcampOnboarding2 Wednesday, March 20th, 2024; 10AM CET; aka.ms/TSPbootcampOnboarding3 Wednesday, March 20th, 2024; 10AM PST; aka.ms/TSPbootcampOnboarding4 Join the AI Bootcamps for Educators landing page: TSPs that plan to deliver the bootcamps can share their information on the MSLE AI Bootcamps for Educators landing page. By completing this form your contact information will be added to the list of TSPs delivering the bootcamps and be visible to education customers on the Microsoft Learn for Educators (MSLE) page. Customers will then review the list of TSPs and contact the TSP of their choice to negotiate services and delivery of the AI Bootcamps. Prep your MCTs: Please note that the AI Bootcamp materials must be delivered by Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) who are certified in Microsoft AI technology. Your employed or contracted MCTs can watch the following recordings AI-900: AI Fundamentals and AI-102: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure AI Solutions workshop to help them prepare for their certifications and AI bootcamp delivery.
Getting started to become a MCT End user Trainer
Hi all, I am interested in becoming a MCT and I am not really sure where to start with it. I have been asked by my company to become an MCT with a focus on Office 365 and AI for the end user. I am involved with some back end stuff but this is more the IT Technical team. Can anyone outline what courses I would need to do in order to become an MCT for an end user delivery, the cost of the exams/ courses and where I can get started with them. Any help would be helpful.
Become a TSP
Hi, I have a company that only provides training. I created it because I have a group of trainers who are all certified and MCTs. But I'd actually like to also become a Training Services Partner. So, in short: I have a company with ID. The trainers are MCTs. Questions: What do we have to do for the company to also become a Training Services Partner? What are the steps?ISV Success FAQ: Are their limitations for use of the Azure Sponsorship credits?
Q: Are their limitations for use of the Azure Sponsorship credits (offered as part of ISV Success)? A: Azure Sponsorship must be used within 12 months of joining the ISV Success program. Due to current technical limitations Azure Sponsorship also can not be used on Microsoft Customer Agreements (MCA) or Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) agreements. Azure Sponsorship also can not be used to purchase Reserved Instances (RI) or (Reserved Capacity (RC). Note: this FAQ is relevant to participants in ISV Success. Learn more about ISV Success here.Security, Compliance, and Identity Training and Certification Marketing Playbook
I'm not sure, whether this is the correct place for some suggestions for the above kit. Although great update & kit, new toolkit is not 100% up-to-date when it comes to certifications: TSP - e-book, infographics: MS-500 and related certification was retired almost two years ago: Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate certification and Exam MS-500 retiring | Microsoft Community Hub SC-400 will be retired tomorrow. SC-401 and especially new Information Security Administrator Associate has already been updated in Certification Poster (https://aka.ms/CertPoster). Name of certification not 100% correct in materials MS poster 2 - Cybersecurity architects training journey.pptx has same (AZ-104 Azure Admin) content as MS poster 1 - Azure administrator training journey.pptx Also, there are some materials with Copilot for Security which has been rebranded to Security Copilot.CosmosDb multi-region writes and creating globally unique value
Hi! I am trying to understand how to deal with conflicts when using multi-region writes. Imagine I am trying to create a Twitter clone and I have to ensure that when a user creates an account, it also select an unique user handle (a unique key like username ). In a single region I would just have a container with no indexing and then create that value as a partition key, if I succeed it means that there was not another handle with that value and from this point nobody else will be able to add it. But when thinking in multi-region writes, two persons in different regions could indeed add the same handle. Then the conflict resolution strategy would need to deal with it. But the only conflict resolution possible here is to delete one of them. But this is happening asynchronously after both persons successfully created their accounts, so one of them would get a bad surprise the next time they log in. As far as I understood, there is no way to have Strong consistency across multiple write regions. After thinking for a while about this problem I think there is no solution possible using multiple write regions. The only solution would be to have this container in an account with a single write region, and although the client could do a "tentative query" to another read-only region to see if a given handle is already taken, in the final step to actually take it I must force the client to do the final write operation in that particular region. Consistency levels here only help to define how close to reality is the "tentative query", but that is all. Does this reasoning make sense? Many thanks.Tech Talks presents: The Copilot Studio Usage Estimator
Join us on Thursday, July 10th at 8am PT as April Dunnam, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft presents 'The Copilot Studio Usage Estimator'. 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
Events
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Recent Blogs
- 20 MIN READWe continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 270 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:Jul 11, 2025
- We want to inform you that the release of DP-3027: Implement a Data Engineering Solution with Azure Databricks, originally scheduled for July 18, 2025, has been postponed. A new release date is ...Jul 10, 2025
