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Microsoft Fabric (Free) is missing from the CSP Price list
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.
Hi Martin, you are correct. Per my original post
jonwbstr24 wrote:
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?
Do you have any ideas why the Partner program is forcing customers to purchase this free license direct and allowing them to purchase other free licenses through the CSP program?
I was asked by the partner center frontline support team to post my feedback here and the partner center team would review it, and I'm patiently waiting for some feedback from Microsoft.
While we wait,
Do you think Microsoft should make this free license available through the partner program, like all the other free licenses. Or, is it completely acceptable to ask a partner client to enter credit card information buy this free license from Microsoft directly if they want it.
While we're at it, do you think Microsoft should remove the "Teams Phone Resource Account" from the partner program and require those free licenses to be purchased from microsoft directly too?
let me know what you think!
