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Legacy contract terms going away at renewal?
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.
If this (or someone else's) reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
Hi Steve_Leach1
Important new Partner Center announcement that confirms deprecation of legacy licenses from July 2023.
June 2023 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn
In the announcement it states, "Partners that already have customer subscriptions for these deprecated offers aren't impacted and can keep those subscriptions until the end of their terms." which I understand to mean at next renewal after 1st July 2023, customers would need to migrate subscriptions to NCE.
LicensingConcierge1 do I understand this correctly?
A question to Microsoft is, how do customers know or have some kind of insight about this before partners?
Hi Nick_Beacroft ,
that's just how I understand this.
LicensingConcierge1
Can you please check here if this is really so?- I second (or third) this.
I'm pretty sure the real penalty right now for partners is that you won't/aren't receiving any back-end incentives for keeping customers on legacy right now. That means you can still help your customers but you're not helping your bottom line.
I'm having a hard time understanding the wording of this, compared to last year's announcement which clearly stated that legacy subscriptions would not auto renew and needed to be migrated to NCE.
Also, this recent announcement states:
"Partners can identify the respective New Commerce product SKUs for each of the legacy offers migrate to the NCE Mapping tab in the legacy Offer List Matrix. Partners can view deprecated offers in the legacy license-based price list as DEPR (deprecated). These recent deprecated offers will have the Valid-From Date value as 20230701 in the price list."
But looking at the current July pricelist, I do not see any DEPR offers with the Valid-from-Date 20230701. Does this mean that this won't apply to DEPR offers with an older Valid-From Date?
- I am expecting this will be clearer once the new July legacy price list is published.
I agree the wording could be much clearer that these must be transitioned to NCE upon renewal.
I'm also hoping Microsoft set these to expire in Partner Center.Hi JillArmour ,
could you help us here that this is clearly explained?
Whether the legacy licenses at term end will no longer be automatically renewed and need to be migrated to NCE or will they continue to be renewed?
LicensingConcierge1Microsoft
correct...I have the same understanding.
Regards,
Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
