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ICYMI: New Partner Blog | Updated partner benefits
Hi JillArmour
We are very appreciative of the addition of these new benefits, but we seem to be caught in a time trap regarding the retirement of the MAP and the new Partner Launch Benefit plan. Our renewal date was in December 2024. Because MAP was being discontinued, we chose a Partner Success benefit. Shortly thereafter, the addition of new products was announced in early January, with a top-off date of January 22 for these additional items.
Since January 22, partner center shows only two new items were topped off - Entra ID P2 and Defender for Endpoint P2. Items such as Power Apps Premium and Power Automate Premium were not added.
For those of us who went along with the change to the Partner Launch Benefit plan as recommended by MS in December, we do not have 4 of 6 new items for the rest of 2025. However, for anyone who bought the new program on January 22, 2025, or later, the new items are available. In effect, this creates a price disparity/value for 11 months for the loyal early adopters.
We have tried to resolve this through a ticket, Case 2501280040008178 , but the support person did not have a path to resolution other than us canceling the current plan and buying it again, effectively paying twice, for the same Dec to Dec subscription period.
Can Microsoft top-off all the new additions to the respective new partner plans, even if they were bought before the announcement date? It has been done for two out of the six products mentioned above.
Thank you and kind regards.