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Can EA have two partners ?
nishk27 Typically, an EA has only one Licensing Solution Provider (LSP) managing the agreement and handling the licensing. That said, there are a couple of ways multiple partners might be involved:
Primary Partner (LSP): This partner officially manages the EA and deals with the licensing side of things.
Other Partners for Services: It’s common for organizations to bring in other partners for things like cloud migration, consulting, or support, but they won’t be managing the EA directly. Instead, they'd operate under separate agreements. Usually this is beneficial to be recognized for the work they do in the account which can add to their SPD or equivalent and incentives from Microsoft as well.
The best course of action would probably be to chat with the customers Microsoft account manager to see if there’s any flexibility and get their take on it. Of course, the second partner could still provide services but wouldn’t be managing the EA directly, usually you can do CPOR (Claiming Partner of Record), DPOR (Digital Partner of Record), or PAL (Partner Admin Link) if it's around the SPDs or incentives as above.
nishk27 Typically, an EA has only one Licensing Solution Provider (LSP) managing the agreement and handling the licensing. That said, there are a couple of ways multiple partners might be involved:
Primary Partner (LSP): This partner officially manages the EA and deals with the licensing side of things.
Other Partners for Services: It’s common for organizations to bring in other partners for things like cloud migration, consulting, or support, but they won’t be managing the EA directly. Instead, they'd operate under separate agreements. Usually this is beneficial to be recognized for the work they do in the account which can add to their SPD or equivalent and incentives from Microsoft as well.
The best course of action would probably be to chat with the customers Microsoft account manager to see if there’s any flexibility and get their take on it. Of course, the second partner could still provide services but wouldn’t be managing the EA directly, usually you can do CPOR (Claiming Partner of Record), DPOR (Digital Partner of Record), or PAL (Partner Admin Link) if it's around the SPDs or incentives as above.
- Thanks so much for all the directions received.
- Just to add on ahart3's comment. There can only be 1 partner per seat based subscription with CPOR (partners claim a specific service/product). For DPOR there can only be 1 partner per tenant (partner claims the entire customer). But with PAL multiple partners can register for an Azure Subscription / Resource Group / Resource.
