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Tech Talks presents: FastTrack Portfolio Partner Engagement model expansion
Join us on Thursday, December 13th at 8am PT as Lee Zuckett, Senior Program Manager, FastTrack presents 'FastTrack Portfolio Partner Engagement model expansion to include Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio'. Microsoft FastTrack’s engineering‑backed customer success approach expands beyond Dynamics 365 to include Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio, enabling partners to deliver high‑quality, scalable implementations with access to engineering expertise and proven frameworks like Success by Design and Agentic by Design. Key highlights: • Relationship‑based engagement through a partner Center of Excellence (CoE) that oversees portfolio‑level delivery and quality assurance. • Expanded partner benefits including waived license minimums, dedicated FastTrack support, and strategic funding pathways to accelerate adoption and value. • Deep technical support via Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) for complex scenarios, plus architecture and governance guidance for Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Copilot solutions. We hope to see you there! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecordingREGISTER: Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric event - Dec 9
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric – a breakthrough in scalable data management and analytics designed specifically for nonprofits! Join us at one of the following Microsoft Elevate nonprofit partner sessions to discover how Microsoft Fabric can help your nonprofit customer: ✅ Accelerate impact with unified, AI-ready data ✅ Unlock insights for stronger fundraising and mission success ✅ Expand opportunities in the $48B+ data & analytics market Register | Session 1: Americas / EMEA regions Date: December 9, 2025 Time: 8:00 AM PST / 4:00 PM GMT Register | Session 2: ANZ / Asia regions Date: December 9, 2025 / December 10, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM PST / 11:00 AM AEDT Why it matters Fabric empowers nonprofits with secure, scalable infrastructure, advanced analytics, and AI-powered capabilities to unify data, automate processes, and drive strategic outcomes. Go-to-market resources We’re excited to provide the following suite of Go-To-Market resources designed to help nonprofit partners accelerate impact and deliver greater value to their nonprofit customers: Core Content Resources E-book | Harnessing Your Data to Drive Nonprofit Mission Success Framework | Microsoft Fabric Unified Analytics for Data-Driven Innovation One Pager | Unify Your Data Platform to Accelerate Nonprofit Impact Pitch Deck | Unify Your Data Platform Nonprofit Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric Resources Campaign-in-a-Box Resources E-book Template | Fuel Your Nonprofit Acceleration: Unlock Opportunity from Your Data Email Template | Fuel Your Nonprofit Acceleration: Unlock Opportunity from Your Data One Pager Template | Unify Your Data Platform to Accelerate Nonprofit Impact By using these resources, partners can quickly position themselves as trusted advisors, accelerate solution adoption, and help nonprofits overcome data silos, automate processes, and unlock actionable insights. This means stronger donor engagement, smarter fundraising strategies, and measurable mission impact—all powered by Microsoft Fabric.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Microsoft 365 Copilot Business - Dec 1
We’re excited to announce Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, launched December 1, 2025. Designed specifically for small and mid-sized organizations, this new SKU delivers the full power of Microsoft 365 Copilot at an accessible, SMB-friendly price point—just $21 per user per month. To drive SMB Nonprofit AI adoption, we’re also introducing a limited-time, introductory offer. From December 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026, Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is available for 15% off for up to 300 licenses ($18 pu/pm). Note: At this point, nonprofit pricing is not available for M365 Copilot Business and Business Bundles. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business can be added to nonprofit priced Business SKUs through authorized CSP partners as well as via Admin Center. Call to action CSP Partner sales training Attend the time zone that works best for you to learn more about, "FY26 Q2 Maximize Microsoft 365 Renewals: Upsell with AI and Security value" Register | Session 1: December 4, 9:00 AM PT | Americas/EMEA Register | Session 2: December 4, 6:00 PM PT | ANZ/Asia Level Up with the CSP bootcamp Register to attend the CSP bootcamp and get hands-on learning from sales and technical experts on December 9 and 10, 2025. Use the customizable email template to invite your sellers. Inform your customers Use the customizable email template to reach out to your customers by December 12, 2025, and inform them of the limited time special discounts and bundles, especially relevant in your renewal conversations!Discover how SharePoint Embedded can transform software solutions for your customers
Explore practical use cases and actionable steps to make integrating enterprise grade document management into applications real and impactful. Hear what software development company partners are asking about implementing SharePoint Embedded, what they learned, and how their customers are benefiting. Read the full article: SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: Use cases make it real for customers
Flagged for “serious compliance violations” – possible TAUX0 / third-party data mix-up?
Hello everyone, I’m posting here to see if anyone has experienced something similar or has any guidance. My company has been operating since 2006 as an IT/consulting firm. All members / staff are fully vetted, currently hold active government-level clearances with an impeccable record and we go through rigorous verification and clearance checks. Recently, our Microsoft partner / CSP access was deactivated. The only explanation I receive from support is the standard message: “Microsoft runs on trust… As a part of this commitment, we perform regular due diligence and vetting on all members of our partner network. In this case, our vetting revealed serious compliance violations attributable to your organization or with persons in a position of influence within your organization. We are unable to share further details.” When I asked for a meeting, support created a ticket and sent me a link to schedule an appointment. I scheduled it, but the ticket was closed almost immediately. At the same time, I received the same boilerplate “serious compliance violations” message again, and no one joined the scheduled meeting. I was then told explicitly that the decision cannot be changed by opening a new support case. From the outside, it looks like an internal “flag” has been set and front-line support can only paste that one response. I strongly suspect there may be a mistaken identity or bad third-party data involved. I see that the verification process uses AU10TIX and, from what I can tell, AU10TIX in turn relies on a data source called TAUX0 (or similar). When doing simple searches on my name/company, I see multiple entries for different entities that share similar names, some of those unrelated entities do have legal records. My concern is that these mixed records in TAUX0 (or related sources) have been combined and attributed to me/my company, even though we have no such history. I did contact AU10TIX, they said they will refer this to their R&D but "nothing they can do", I will have to contact Microsoft. My questions to the community: 1. Has anyone else had their partner/CSP access deactivated with the same “serious compliance violations” boilerplate and no details? 2. Was anyone able to get clarification or a remediation path, or is this truly final once the internal flag is set? 3. Does this type of enforcement affect only partner/CSP status, or can it also impact our ability to use Microsoft services as a customer? I’m not looking to argue or threaten legal actions, so please no such suggestions. I simply want to understand the practical impact and whether there is any constructive way to correct an apparent misunderstanding caused by third-party data. We are a small business and heavily impacted by this, as we cannot renew our Partner benefit packages. My hope is that, out of cases like this, Microsoft and AU10TIX can find a way to provide some guidance and a remediation path for small businesses, instead of leaving them in the dark with a generic “serious compliance violations” label and no explanation. Thanks in advance for any insights or similar experiences you can share.Microsoft Marketplace office hours for customers December 2025
December 11 | 8:30 AM PST Online event Join Felipe Ospina and Mario Ortegon for the online December customer office hours: Chart your AI app and agent strategy with Microsoft Marketplace Organizations adopting AI applications and agents face a pivotal decision: build, buy, or blend. There’s no universal solution—each path comes with distinct advantages and trade-offs. Join us to explore the pros and cons of these approaches and discover how the Microsoft Marketplace streamlines adoption by serving as a single, trusted hub for AI apps, agents, and models. Learn how Marketplace accelerates time-to-value, shortens procurement cycles, and provides access to thousands of vetted AI models—empowering you to innovate faster while maintaining governance and cost control. Learn more and attendScale smarter: Discover how resale enabled offers drive growth
Friday, December 5 | 11:00 12:00 PM GTM+1 online event Discover how resale enabled offers (REO) help software development companies scale through the Microsoft Marketplace by simplifying transactions, expanding reach and accelerating co-sell opportunities. Why attend? Simplify multi-party transactions Expand your global reach through resellers Accelerate co-sell opportunities and close more deals Reserve your spot now to start unlocking new growth opportunitiesJoin the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft partner that is interested in data and analytics? After a two-week break for Ignite and Thanksgiving, be sure to join us for this week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls! Yitzhak Kesselman will be presenting on the brand-new Microsoft Fabric IQ, just announced during Ignite, followed by Shuaijun Ye with Environment Best Practices. The Americas & EMEA call will take place Wednesday, December 3, from 8-9 am PT and the APAC call is Thursday, December 4, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, December 3, from 5-6 pm PT. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To participate in the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. We look forward to seeing you at the calls!This Azure Cosmos DB discussion board will be migrating into the Azure partners board on December 12, 2025.
Hello Partners!! Please note this discussion board will be merged into our Azure Partners discussion board on Friday, December 12th, 2025. Please follow this new board and subscribe to the Azure Cosmos DB tag to get notified of new posts of this topic!😃'Not Authorized' message when enrolling in Partner Program
I'm in the Partner Center --> Programs and when I click on a program to enroll in such as Microsoft 365 and Copilot or Commercial Marketplace, I'm presented with a screen which only displays 'Not Authorized'. I'm a global admin for my org, so I'm not sure what permissions I may be missing. It may/may not be related but the Legal Info and Identifiers sections in the Partner Center --> Account Settings are totally blank. Another clue might be (just guessing) that I cannot raise a support ticket because the required Workspace dropdown has no options available. JillArmourMicrosoft thanks!New Training Services Partner Onboarding Update
Hello new TSPs. We are currently updating the onboarding process to provide better communications around process and timing. While we work to update, please send me a private message if you have completed the onboarding form and you are currently waiting on a response. I anticipate this workaround to last for a few weeks and for us to have a new process in place in January. Once the update is complete and the normal process resumes, I will delete this thread. Thanks, DanAchievement codes not reflecting in Partner Centre
Hi, I held an AI-900 course in June, but the achievement code redemptions haven't appeared in Partner centre yet, so I was wondering if someone could help me check that everything is set up correctly? We had previously purchased the learning action pack, but completed the onboarding process in May (received onboarding email). I had previously (i.e. after we had purchased LAP but before the new onboarding) enrolled a class admin outlook account and could/can request achievement codes; this is set up against the same MPN ID so figured it would be OK to continue using it to create codes. Could see in the Xtremelabs classroom portal that multiple participants had redeemed the code, but nothing in Partner centre (last refresh states Aug 5th , course was held June 18th) Let me know if I should send over any details, MPN ID etcThis Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate partner offerings discussion board will be archived on December 12, 2025
Thank you partners for your participation in the Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate partner offerings spaces on the Partner community. We will be archiving these spaces on Friday, December 12th, 2025. Please follow the Azure Partners discussion board to keep up to date on everything Azure partner related.😃Can't Enroll for Microsoft Partner Program
Hi, I am trying to create my company profile: Veritas Analytica on Microsoft Partner Portal with my company email ID: mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons. Upon clicking Send Code for verification, it generates an unexpected error. When we tried to contact support for this enrollment issue, it was not making the option clickable for us. We got stuck in an endless loop of signing in and out of our work account. Please let us know how we can fill in our company details and get our company enrolled for Microsoft Partner Network. Best, Manal Mustafa.🤔Finding alignment with Channel partners as an ISV?
Hi all! We're new to the MS ecosystem. Spent the last 15 years developing products for the Salesforce ecosystem, which is very direct sales heavy. We've launched our app https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/Office365/WA200008222 which is a native and robust integration between Salesforce and Microsoft Teams. We listed just this year in March 2025. We're attending Microsoft Ignite for the first time, and it's clear we need to have a channel partner strategy. Microsoft claims there are over 500k partners - my question to the group (especially ISV partners): how do you find channel partners effectively that align to your product and strategy? Where do we even start? We obviously have an affinity towards partners that serve Saleforce and MS Teams customers. Thanks in advance!!How to Check on Partner Portal TSP status
Hi team, we have received the Welcome email for the Tyrannising Service Partner program after we have registered. However , in Partner portal we cannot see any status or when I tried to click on the Terracing Service Partner section it shows the error as attached. Or any other way to verify. Hi team, we have received the Welcome email for the Tyrannising Service Partner program after we have registered. However , in Partner portal we cannot see any status or when I tried to click on the Terracing Service Partner section it shows the error as attached.
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