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Azure News - August updates are here!

JillArmourMicrosoft — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:30:46 GMT

You can follow the Azure News tag to get notifications of new announcements monthly!!

Partner Center Dashboard Access Issue

DanDonohue — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:12:10 GMT

Hi all,

I'm getting some reports that some of you who previously had access to Partner Center and the TSP Dashboard suddenly lost access in the last couple week. If this is you, can you please send me a direct message with a screen shot of what you're seeing, as well as the email address you're using to log into the site and your Microsoft Partner ID number.

Please do not post that information as a reply to this thread. Please send directly to me DanDonohue. Thank you.

2026 FabCon + SQLCon Europe Fabric in the Wild: Photo Scavenger Hunt

StephanieChimeziri — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:34:03 GMT

📸 Fabric in the Wild: Photo Scavenger Hunt at FabCon + SQLCon Europe

Heading to FabCon + SQLCon Europe in Barcelona? Get ready to explore, connect, and have some fun with the Fabric community!

We're excited to launch the Fabric in the Wild: Photo Scavenger Hunt, an exclusive experience for Microsoft partners attending the event. Whether you're networking at Partner Day, taking in the keynotes, meeting fellow partners, or discovering Barcelona, you'll have the opportunity to capture your adventure and win some exclusive Fabric swag.

🏆 Win Fabric Kicks

Complete the challenge by sharing photos from any five scavenger hunt moments and you'll be entered for a chance to win 1 of 3 pairs of Fabric Kicks.

📷 How It Works

✅ Complete any 5 photo challenges from the hunt

✅ Share all 5 photos in a single LinkedIn post or carousel

✅ Include:

#FabConEurope
#MicrosoftPartner
#FabricInTheWildSweepstakes

✅ Tag @Stephanie Chimeziri

That's it. You're in!

The scavenger hunt is all about celebrating the people, experiences, and energy that make the Microsoft Fabric partner community special. From Partner Day and keynotes to new connections and iconic Barcelona landmarks, we can't wait to see Fabric in the wild through your lens.

Drop your photos, showcase your creativity, and share your FabCon story with the community!

🌍 See you in Barcelona.

For more information about FabCon + SQLCon Europe, visit aka.ms/fabconeu

#MicrosoftFabric #FabConEurope #SQLConEurope #MicrosoftPartner #FabricCommunity #DataAnalytics #FabricInTheWildSweepstakes #PartnerDay #MicrosoftPartners

How channel partners participate in multiparty private offers

justinroyal — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:01:31 GMT

Multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace enable software companies and channel partners to work together to create customized offers for customers with negotiated pricing, terms, and billing options. Watch this short video to learn the role of channel partners in the multiparty private offer process, including providing required Marketplace and customer information, reviewing pending partner actions in Partner Center, applying eligible pricing adjustments, adding custom terms or supporting documents, and submitting the offer for customer review. Whether you're new to multiparty private offers or looking to better support joint sales opportunities, this walkthrough provides an overview of the key steps channel partners complete before an offer can be shared with a customer.

new partner tenant - price sheet API calls don't work

AndyH-SHI — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:38:00 GMT

I work for a CSP direct partner with multiple tenants. We're currently setting up a Netherlands tenant, and I can't manage to make calls to retrieve price sheets. I think the underlying issue is that this tenant is missing the enterprise app for "Microsoft Partner" (ID 4990cffe-04e8-4e8b-808a-1175604b879f), so I can't add a permission for it to my app registration. Any clue how I can add it? Do I have to open a support ticket or can I do it myself? It's present in our other tenants (US, Ireland, etc.).

Price sheet API docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/developer/get-a-price-sheet

Seller verification Rejected at Employment step — no email received, no appeal (ID 94611890)

DigitalQazaqstan — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:29:47 GMT

Our Partner (MAICPP) verification completed successfully on 31 Aug 2026 — contact, identity (Verified ID) and business all Verified (Partner ID 7113511, DIGITAL QAZAQSTAN LTD, UK company no. 17178943).

The Developer/seller verification for the same legal entity (Seller ID 94611890) is closed as "Rejected — no appeals available", stuck at "Employment Verification — Pending Partner Action" with an estimated date of 06.09.2026 still showing. No verification email or action request was ever received at the primary contact (monitored, junk folder included), and the closed page shows no Fix now / appeal / upload control.

Root cause we identified: the seller profile contained an outdated registered address. It has been corrected and now matches Companies House exactly (Office 393, Unit 5, 399-405 Oxford Street, Mayfair, London W1C 2BU). Business verification documents show "Provided".

A fully prepared transactable professional service offer is blocked from publication only by this verification. Could a Community Manager please escalate this to the Partner Vetting team to reopen or reinitiate the seller verification?

Partner Center enrollment blocked, reference 715-123160

ddmtx — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:47:08 GMT

Musatunix Innovations LLC is enrolling in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program to obtain a Partner One ID for verified publisher status.

Enrollment was blocked immediately after accepting the Partner Program / Commercial Marketplace agreements with:

Reference: 715-123160

Note: the Registration Number / EIN field was disabled and could not be entered during enrollment.

Please escalate this to Partner Onboarding / Compliance / Trust & Safety for manual review. I can provide the correlation ID, LLC formation documents, EIN/TIN evidence, domain ownership, and identity documentation through a secure Microsoft channel.

Title Plan Update - August 28, 2026

AshleeLyman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:37:25 GMT

📁August 28, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available

Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.

📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan. This means each update may include fewer changes but ensures you’re always up to date.

Learn how leading partners drive co-sell success with Microsoft Marketplace

Lindaj — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:01:02 GMT

Want to create more Marketplace opportunities and strengthen your co-sell motion? Join Reis Barrie, CEO of Carve Partners, for a practical discussion on how leading software companies use Microsoft Marketplace to accelerate growth, engage Microsoft sellers, and create repeatable paths to revenue.

You'll learn the fastest path toward transactable offers and Azure IP co-sell eligibility, explore the seller habits that consistently generate Marketplace opportunities, and discover strategies for identifying high-potential accounts and shortening sales cycles. The session will also cover Marketplace signals, funding opportunities, and proven engagement approaches that help partners build momentum sooner.

Whether you're responsible for sales, alliances, Marketplace strategy, or go-to-market execution, this session offers actionable insights you can apply immediately. Stay for the live Q&A and bring your questions.

Add to your calendar: How leading partners drive co-sell success with Marketplace

Choosing the right offer type for your cloud and AI solutions

justinroyal — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:52:40 GMT

Whether you're bringing a new AI solution to market or evaluating how to scale an existing application, understanding Marketplace offer types can help you choose the right path to monetization and customer adoption.

Check out this short video that compares the capabilities of SaaS offers, Container offers, and Azure managed applications to understand which model best aligns with your architecture, deployment requirements, and customer needs.

Marketplace Publishing - Email with the Certification Team

LeonGorbaty — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:13:04 GMT

Greetings partners, fellows, and friends,

Standards Core is a 2nd year ISV - we currently have 1 SaaS and 2 Office add-in listings, now working on our first Apps and agents for Microsoft 365 and Copilot ... we have submitted our first publish, can currently working to address certification details.

Why am I posting this? Well, after the 1st submission, in addition to the certification report on Marketplace, we also received an email - thereafter questions/iterations were immediately interactive with very quick and clearly attentive responses.

So I wanted to mention that we really appreciate that!!

Previous submissions that I have experienced were through the submissions portal only - the personalized email interaction was a pleasant surprise, and made the process feel much warmer than the previous "formal" portal-only interaction.

Thank you [certification team], and looking forward to re-submit shortly.

Thanks again,

Leon, CTO/Standards Core LLC

Grow your sales on Marketplace: App Advisor helps you understand improvements to negotiated deals

Brady-B — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:19:56 GMT

Want to dive into the details of negotiated deals and how to create them? Head to App Advisor: https://aka.ms/GrowMySales

Not all customers buy apps in the same way. Some need negotiated pricing. Others have specific contract or billing requirements. Some want to buy through a trusted channel partner.

Microsoft Marketplace already supports these scenarios through negotiated deals. Now, several new capabilities make those motions more flexible, accessible, and scalable.

How do I sell more apps and agents?

The best way to sell more apps and agents is to expand your sales footprint, not build more.

This means making your apps and agents available through private offers, negotiated deals, and selling through channel partners. These types of deals have always given you flexibility, but new releases have improved their functionality.

No matter how you’re selling, chances are good that you could grow your sales with at least one type of private offer (each detailed in App Advisor)

Sell directly without another party → to-customer private offer.
Bring a channel partner into a direct customer deal → Multi-party private offers (MPO).
Authorize partners to repeatedly resell your offer → Resale enabled offers (REO).
Sell through a customer's Cloud Solution Provider → CSP private offer.

This series will cover each type of negotiated deal, how to make it, and benefits your company will get from them

What changed for negotiated deals

Over the last two months, Microsoft has improved capabilities and availability of several types of negotiated deals:

Request private offer: Customers can now initiate a conversation about customized pricing and terms directly from an eligible Marketplace listing. Partners configure this when publishing an offer and a button appears on the listing for customers to reach out, reducing the gap between discovering an offer and beginning a negotiated sale.

Custom contract lengths: Software companies can create eligible private offers with nonstandard contract lengths defined in months, including terms such as 18 months, with support extending up to 10 years for eligible SaaS and Professional Services scenarios. This helps align Marketplace transactions more closely with contracts negotiated with customers.

Flexible billing: Eligible private offers can use customized billing schedules rather than forcing the transaction into a standard cadence. Current Microsoft documentation supports up to 70 installments and terms up to 120 months/10 years in supported scenarios.

Expanded MPO reach: After expanding into 30 European countries earlier in the year, MPO expanded to Australia, Japan, and South Africa last month, creating more opportunities for software companies and channel partners to collaborate on Marketplace transactions.

Expanded REO reach: REO expanded to New Zealand, extending the channel-led resale model into another market.

What comes next

Interested in expanding your sales footprint with minimal overhead?

Follow along in this series as we discuss each type of private offer and advantages of each.

To get started today, explore your negotiated selling options with App Advisor: https://aka.ms/GrowMySales

Learn how to move co-sell opportunities from ready to closed-won with greater consistency

Lindaj — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:37:06 GMT

What separates co-sell ready opportunities from closed-won success? The answer often comes down to stakeholder alignment, commercial readiness, and a clear strategy for engaging Microsoft and partner resources at the right time.

Join Kevin Flitcroft, Head of Sales for SaaSify at Spektra Systems, as he shares practical guidance for helping partners improve deal execution and revenue outcomes. Learn how to align opportunities to Microsoft priorities, determine when to engage Microsoft sellers, position Microsoft Marketplace early in the sales cycle, and support customer purchasing goals through effective commercial motions.

You'll also explore the Audit/Activate/Run framework and discover how successful organizations create repeatable co-sell practices that help increase win rates, strengthen pipeline development, and drive more consistent business growth.

Discover how leading partners turn co-sell opportunities into consistent business growth. Attend this live session to gain practical strategies you can apply to your next opportunity.

Add to your calendar: Microsoft co-sell playbook: From co-sell ready to closed-won

How leading partners drive co-sell success with Marketplace

Pearl-Angeles — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:30:26 GMT

See how successful software companies expand their reach, strengthen co-sell relationships, and create repeatable paths to revenue through Microsoft Marketplace. Join Reis Barrie, advisor to software companies building Microsoft Marketplace growth and co-sell strategies, to learn how leading partners create momentum and generate co-sell opportunities through the Microsoft partner ecosystem.

You’ll learn the practical steps toward transactable offers and Azure IP co-sell eligibility, the seller behaviors that consistently generate Marketplace opportunities, and practical strategies that help partners build momentum sooner. You’ll also discover how successful partners identify high-potential accounts, engage Microsoft sellers effectively, and use Marketplace as a repeatable growth motion.

Bring your questions. The final fifteen minutes will be reserved for live Q&A.

About the speaker:

Reis Barrie is the CEO of Carve Partners, where he helps software development companies grow through Microsoft Marketplace and co-sell programs. With over a decade of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, Reis specializes in turning strategic partnerships into measurable revenue growth. Attendees will gain practical insights on how to maximize Microsoft partnership opportunities, accelerate co-sell success, and drive sustainable business growth.

What you’ll learn:

Identify the fastest path to transactable offers and Azure co-sell eligibility.
Learn the four habits Marketplace-ready sellers use to identify, create and advance co-sell opportunities.
Understand how top partners engage Microsoft sellers to accelerate opportunities and strengthen co-sell motions.
Discover Marketplace signals, funding opportunities, and deal strategies that help prioritize accounts and shorten sales cycles.

Who should attend?

Sales leaders and account executives responsible for Microsoft Marketplace growth.
Partner business leaders looking to strengthen co-sell engagement with Microsoft.
Marketplace, alliance, and channel managers seeking to accelerate transaction readiness.
Revenue, sales operations, and go-to-market teams focused on growing Marketplace-driven opportunities.

How do I participate?

Registration is not required. Add this event to your calendar, then sign in to the Tech Community and select ‘Attend’ to receive reminders. Post your questions in advance, or any time during the live broadcast.

Microsoft co-sell playbook: From co-sell ready to closed-won

Pearl-Angeles — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:46:23 GMT

Learn how leading partners align opportunities, engage the right stakeholders, and improve deal execution to increase win rates and revenue. Turning a co-sell opportunity into revenue takes more than achieving co-sell ready status. The most successful partners align their sales motions to Microsoft priorities and effectively engage the right participants in the opportunity, whether through partner-led motions, partner-to-partner collaboration, or Microsoft seller engagement.

Join Kevin Flitcroft, Head of Sales for SaaSify at Spektra Systems, to learn how leading partners move opportunities from co-sell ready to closed-won with greater consistency. Find out how to position partner-led and seller-supported opportunities for co-sell success, drive action-oriented conversations, and align commercial motions to customer purchasing preferences and Azure consumption commitments, using Microsoft Marketplace as part of a broader co-sell strategy.

About the Speaker:

Kevin Flitcroft is Head of Sales for SaaSify at Spektra Systems, a global cloud technology company helping businesses and cloud partners grow through innovative solutions. With expertise in technology sales, cloud infrastructure, and data analytics, Kevin specializes in aligning business goals with scalable growth strategies.

What you’ll learn:

How to align opportunities to Microsoft priorities and determine when to lead independently, collaborate with partners, or engage with Microsoft sellers.
How to position Microsoft Marketplace early in the sales cycle to support customer purchasing goals and committed cloud spend across partner-led and Microsoft supported opportunities.
How to prepare opportunities for successful deal execution through strong commercial readiness across different co-sell scenarios.
How to apply the Audit/Activate/Run framework to build a repeatable co-sell motion that supports partner-led growth and Microsoft collaboration.

Who should attend?

Alliance and partner management leaders responsible for Microsoft co-sell success.
Sales and business development teams focused on growing Microsoft-influenced pipeline.
Marketplace, go-to-market, and revenue operations professionals supporting partner growth.
Channel leaders and executives looking to scale co-sell outcomes and increase deal value through Microsoft Marketplace.

How do I participate?

The AI Trust Gap: We're Auditing Outputs, But Nobody's Watching the Input

PryvaseeA1 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:03:09 GMT

Hi all, Manjish here, founder of Pryvasee.AI.

I want to open a conversation rather than make a pitch, because I think this is a problem bigger than any one company can solve, and I'd like to hear how others in this community are approaching it.

Over the past year, watching enterprises adopt LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, etc one pattern kept showing up. Almost every governance conversation started after the prompt was sent. Teams were building dashboards to review AI outputs, running periodic audits, writing acceptable use policies. All useful, but all reactive. Nobody I spoke to had a clear answer to a much simpler question: what actually happens to the sensitive data in that prompt in the moments before it leaves your organisation's control?

That gap is why we built Pryvasee.AI differently. Instead of sitting after the model and reviewing what came back, we sit before it. Pryvasee Guard screens prompts, documents, and images for PII, PHI, and PCI and other such sensitive data before anything reaches a model. Pryvasee Thread lets you run the same request across OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek from one interface, so you're never trusting a single model's answer by default. And the Trust Engine scores every response that comes back for groundedness and hallucination risk, so there's a number behind "does this look right" instead of a gut feeling.

We built it natively on Azure (AKS, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Ledger for a tamper evident audit trail) because we think the next wave of AI governance problems won't just be about data leakage. They will be about proving, after the fact, exactly what happened, for a regulator, an auditor, or your own board. Most organisations can't do that today for a single AI interaction, let alone thousands a day across four different model providers.

We're early. MVP/Beta since July 2026, live on the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace since late August, and currently working through a handful of enterprise pilots rather than claiming a long customer list. I would rather be upfront about that than oversell it.

What I'm genuinely curious about: for those of you building or advising on enterprise AI adoption, is anyone handling the "before the model" problem today, whether with tooling, policy, or something else? And do you think this becomes a bigger issue as more employees start using multiple AI tools side by side, or does it resolve itself as the big model providers add more guardrails natively?

Would love to hear how others are thinking about this.

Employment Verification appeal (Resolve) panel does not render upload option

RonStolwijk — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:34:23 GMT

Partner ID: 7001033
Company: Conligo Services B.V.
Account: Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, Developer track

Issue:
Legal Business Profile Verification is stuck at Employment Verification (status: Rejected / Pending Partner Action). Following the official appeal process (Legal Info → Verification Summary → Resolve), the panel that opens does not match Microsoft's own documented behavior.

Expected behavior (per Microsoft's official documentation, "Submit a verification appeal in Partner Center," step 6): the Resolve panel should show a "Select document type" dropdown, a drag-and-drop file upload field, and an optional comments field.

Actual behavior: the panel only displays a static message — "Your document was submitted successfully. Review can take up to 5 business days." — with no document type selector, no upload field, and no functional control of any kind.

Troubleshooting already performed:

Reproduced in multiple browsers (including a fresh anonymous/private session, tested independently, ~30 minutes apart)
Reproduced after waiting to rule out temporary state/cache issues
Confirmed the Verification Started, Email Verification, and Identity Verification steps all show as passed (green checkmark); only Employment Verification is affected
Confirmed via KvK (Dutch Chamber of Commerce) extracts that I am the authorized representative (director of Ubertas Holding B.V., which is the sole director of Conligo Services B.V.)

Documents ready to submit once the upload field is functional:

KvK extract, Conligo Services B.V. (KvK 77027965)
KvK extract, Ubertas Holding B.V. (KvK 76957292)
Domain ownership documentation for conligo.nl (WHOIS/registrar confirmation)

Request: please either fix the rendering issue on my account, or provide an alternative channel to submit the above documents for the Employment Verification appeal.

Can Marketplace Become the Trusted Delivery Ecosystem for Specialized Microsoft Services?

Jon_Sjolie — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:44:34 GMT

Over the past several years, Azure Marketplace has become an increasingly important mechanism for connecting customers, partners, publishers, and Microsoft.

As Marketplace adoption grows, I have been reflecting on one aspect of ecosystem collaboration.

Many customer initiatives involve multiple organizations, each with different responsibilities, commercial models, onboarding requirements, and procurement processes.

This raises an interesting question for the community:

Can Azure Marketplace play a larger role in reducing operational friction between Marketplace participants who are already transacting through the platform?

Potential outcomes could include:

Faster customer project execution.
Simpler cross-organizational collaboration.
Greater adoption of Marketplace-transactable solutions.
Reduced administrative overhead.
Increased Marketplace transaction activity.

From a Marketplace ecosystem perspective, reducing friction between participants may create value for customers, partners, publishers, and Microsoft alike.

I would be interested in learning:

Whether others have encountered similar challenges.
Whether existing Marketplace capabilities already address this area.
Which future improvements would have the greatest impact.

Looking forward to hearing the community's perspective.

Discover how Dragon Copilot solutions can reach clinicians through Microsoft Marketplace

Lindaj — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:56:06 GMT

As healthcare organizations adopt AI to streamline care delivery, partners have a new opportunity to bring innovation directly into clinical workflows. Microsoft Marketplace now supports Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents, helping partners deliver intelligent solutions that support documentation, clinical insights, and workflow efficiency at the point of care.

Learn how Microsoft Marketplace helps partners publish, monetize, and scale Dragon Copilot solutions through flexible commercial models, trusted purchasing experiences, and targeted healthcare discovery experiences.

Read the article to explore the new Dragon Copilot offer type and how to bring your healthcare innovation to market through Microsoft Marketplace.

👉 Read the full article: Accelerate healthcare innovation with Dragon Copilot apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace

TOMT: One ERP Doesn't Fit All - Using Microsoft Dynamics to Complete Your ERP Strategy

JillArmourMicrosoft — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:40:09 GMT

Many complex organizations, such as large city, county, and state governments, have invested in ERP systems that simply don’t work for all their stakeholders.

Agencies with unique business operations - pension funds, lotteries, health departments, planning departments, and more - just may not work within a broad general government ERP system. Or their requirements are so unique that fitting them into the big system isn’t worth the expense.

Discover how Microsoft helps agencies left behind from the big system find the "just right" balance of functionality, flexibility, and affordability.
Hear real-world success stories of how state and local organizations successfully deployed Microsoft Dynamics alongside larger systems.
See how built-in AI is helping teams streamline and automate business processes.

This session is offered as part of Microsoft's State & Local Government Solution Showcase Series.