Forum Discussion
Legacy silver benefits end date ?
This has been asked quite a few times and I know was covered pretty comprehensively in the old version of these forums which I don't know if they are accessible any longer. Here's what I found:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/solutions-partner-faq#i-have-a-legacy-competency-and-choose-to-attain-a-solutions-partner-designation--what-is-the-process-------
In short, the official documentation does not give a timeline for the retirement of legacy benefits.
One of the moderators might be able to find one of the older threads that was conclusive on this topic.
Hello, since some time has passed and we are in the year 2024,
I am interested in how things turned out with the extension of the Gold/Silver partnership.
Is it still possible to extend it in 2024? Thank you for your response.
- As shared jcvst earlier; "Currently, there's no plan to discontinue renewals of the Silver or Gold membership (provided you held it as of 30 September 2022)."
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/silver-gold-membership-competency#i-hold-a-silver-or-gold-membership-as-of-30-september-2022-until-when-can-i-renew-itI have renewed our Legacy Silver and Microsoft happily collected payment, but the Cloud benefits including Office 365 E3 and all the useful ones are no longer available to us.
I'm trying to contact Microsoft (proves diffficult so far) to clarify what's going on.
Seems Legacy Silver and Gold will continue again for FY25.
If you're missing some internal use rights licenses, that are no longer available in Legacy Benefits, you can look at the new Benefits Packages - https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/article/grow-your-partnership-with-new-partner-benefits-packages
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/membership/partner-success-expanded-benefits
- No issue to renew the Legacy Silver/Gold partners in 2024. You can do it as usual.
As fair as I know, there is no end date so far for these partnerships. - I could renew the benefits without problems. You should contact support from the Partner Dashboard.
