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Legacy contract terms going away at renewal?
- Jun 21, 2023
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
If you confirm the information that's unclear in this announcement, I can bring this to the attention of the NCE team when I meet with them next week.
June 2023 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn
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Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
It is now clearer in its explanation that existing legacy subscriptions would renew as legacy.
But the new July announcement invalidates this anyway. From 1st January all renewing legacy (except some D365 promos) must renew to NCE.