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Legacy contract terms going away at renewal?
Hi Steve_Leach1
Without having the website link or document that you're referring to, I'm not sure of which announcement you're referring to.
I've checked the partner center announcements and I do not see term changes applicable to your post. The only announcements that I'm guessing you could be referring to are:
- Microsoft has decided to continue supporting the legacy autorenewal functionality beyond July 11, 2022. I did not find documentation that this has changed. Note: new orders of legacy CSP subscriptions are not allowed since those orders should be placed in the NCE/new commerce experience. It’s best practice is to proactively migrate all subscriptions prior to their renewal date from Legacy to new commerce.
- There is an announcement to an update to the MCA agreement that is required for CSP, but the effective date is March '23...not July '23:
If neither are what you're asking about, please provide a link or file of the announcement/statements mentioned in your post.
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Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
Hi Steve_Leach1
Without having the website link or document that you're referring to, I'm not sure of which announcement you're referring to.
I've checked the partner center announcements and I do not see term changes applicable to your post. The only announcements that I'm guessing you could be referring to are:
- Microsoft has decided to continue supporting the legacy autorenewal functionality beyond July 11, 2022. I did not find documentation that this has changed. Note: new orders of legacy CSP subscriptions are not allowed since those orders should be placed in the NCE/new commerce experience. It’s best practice is to proactively migrate all subscriptions prior to their renewal date from Legacy to new commerce.
- There is an announcement to an update to the MCA agreement that is required for CSP, but the effective date is March '23...not July '23:
If neither are what you're asking about, please provide a link or file of the announcement/statements mentioned in your post.
If this (or someone else's) reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,
Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
I could not find anything in partner center either.
I had two clients today tell me this, so wanted to try and check the validity via microsoft vs what another csp may be telling potential clients.
thank you
What legacy licenses were purchased under CSP?
Regards,
Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
- Various 365 SKUs such as 365 business and enterprise SKUs.
Hi Steve_Leach1
Important new Partner Center announcement that confirms deprecation of legacy licenses from July 2023.
June 2023 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn
In the announcement it states, "Partners that already have customer subscriptions for these deprecated offers aren't impacted and can keep those subscriptions until the end of their terms." which I understand to mean at next renewal after 1st July 2023, customers would need to migrate subscriptions to NCE.
LicensingConcierge1 do I understand this correctly?
A question to Microsoft is, how do customers know or have some kind of insight about this before partners?
I attend the monthly CSP technical series with Microsoft and I don't recall anything on forcing legacy renewal to NCE yet. I honestly wish Microsoft would enforce this, so I would be delighted if that were the case.
Perhaps your clients are referring to an older, pre-July 2022, announcement that an enforcement would be in place, which was then rescinded by Microsoft in this partner center announcement.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/announcements/2022-july#8Since July 2022, all new commercial subscription purchases had to be NCE, with the exception of some legacy Dynamics 365 offers.
That announcement must be what is causing the chatter.
I am new to this platform, how do you mark an answer accepted?Steve_Leach1 ...click on the 3 ellipses in the upper right corner of each reply that you wish to mark as an answer:
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