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Microsoft Fabric (Free) is missing from the CSP Price list
Hi all,
Microsoft currently publishes a lot of free licenses in the catalog so that customers do not need to setup billing direct with Microsoft to purchase these licenses when a partner is involved. For example,
Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic,
Microsoft Teams Phone Resource Account,
Trial licenses, I'm sure there are other free licenses currently available.
When I reached out to the Partner team to report the issue, I learned there are no plans to make the Microsoft Fabric (Free) license available for partners to sell and the customer needs to purchase a paid fabric license or purchase the license direct from Microsoft.
The customer was not very happy about providing Microsoft billing details to purchase a free license when they never had to do this for any of their other free licenses...
When I asked why Microsoft was choosing not to make this license available to partners the best answer I got was "business reasons."
Is it really that complicated to allow partners to sell all free licenses?
Are you positive those licenses are actually used? Typically for customers they can just go to the Fabric portal and turn on their own 60 day trial without messing around with any deployment of trial licenses.
Hi,
Microsoft Fabric (Free) is not a trial, it is a free license like the free "Teams Phone Resource Account" license that is available through CSP. The free license provides basic features for people who do not need a paid license.
This article discusses the features a little
Power BI service features by license type - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
I hope this helps, perhaps if we all open tickets with the partner cenenter support team asking for this missing license we can draw attention to this thread ;).
I believe this license is only available to 'purchase' directly in the tenant, not via CSP. So check in the tenant of the customer if you can find these licenses there. And activate with a credit card in the tenant.
