There are no benefits to being a MS Partner
The absolute absurdity of being a Microsoft Partner is beyond insanity. Some of us have built businesses around the Microsoft Ecosystem (STUPIDLY I MUST ADD). And for what? For Microsoft to block us from our accounts and give zero explanation of the issue? As I am sure others have seen since there are posts everywhere of other people having the same issues, its mind blowing that Microsoft does nothing to assist its partners who are the ones generating them the revenue. Supporting their crappy products over and over and over again being the ones on the front lines getting beat up by their customers because of constant outages, constant issues. Back in September my account was blocked. Not one bit of an explanation. Not one email telling me why. The only thing I got was a notice saying my visual studio enterprise license was removed. Upon checking I couldn't find anything. I open a support ticket. And so far, the only thing I have been told is my account has been blocked. Yet not one person can apparently tell me why? Not one person can tell me what I need to do to fix it? Not one person can even get on the phone to assist on this. Before I lost numerous customers because of this. I was selling 30k a month in licenses. And now because my account was blocked, I have lost access to a crap ton of my development, I have lost access to any and all of the benefits. I have lost access to basically everything even though when you look at my partner center account. Every single thing still shows active / approved. Etc. My suggestion, if you are considering becoming a Microsoft Partner. DONT. SIMPLE AS THAT. The fact they can block you from doing business, block access to products and services you have paid for. And give you zero ability to fix it so you lose numerous customers and don't even tell you what happened or what needs to be done to rectify the issue. Partnering with Microsoft is the single biggest mistake I have made as a business owner. The second biggest would be that I built my development side of the business fully integrated into the MS ecosystem. Which made it so they cost me countless amounts of money and ability to even do business with my customers.Getting benefits from Solution Designation without purchase
Moving from legacy Microsoft Silver / Gold legacy benefits to new benefits is missing a lot in Azure subscription benefit. So basically I need to purchase both - Partner Success Expended Benefits AND the Solution partner designation , or just one? I need Azure us much as I can get.
URGENT - Renewing Legacy Silver/Gold Benefits
Dear community, Following August's announcement regarding the end of Legacy benefits, we would like to find out if there is any possibility to renew a legacy silver/gold benefit before our renewal window opens. As mentioned in the announcement, a partner can renew their legacy benefit until Jan. 21,2024. However, our renewal window starts on April. Therefore, as we are not capable to renew our legacy benefits, could you please advise if there is any way to renew it outside our renewal window? Probably this will be a hot questions also for other partners to know. Thank you in advance for your significant support! :) Warm regards, Nick
Gold legacy benefits renewal cost - 3x price increase
We have been a gold partner for a few years, this would be our second legacy benefits renewal on gold, but the price increased by almost three-fold, we always paid 1700$ and the cost is now $4,729. Our currency in South Africa is R18.61 against the dollar at the moment, and the cost impact on our region is severe. The cost in our currency used to be R32,000 vs now R88,017. So far as we can see it is because Microsoft aligned the pricing for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP) offers to US dollar (USD) levels across regions and the banner in PN stating "Starting December 2023, we will reconcile membership offer prices to current foreign exchange rates for USD. This reconciliation may result in different pricing for your market”. Can Microsoft consider the impact this has on certain regions?
Confused about legacy renewal / Solutions Partner benefits
Hi. According to Partner Center, our Legacy Silver Membership ran from 8/9/22 to 8/9/23. Our Solutions Partner designation is running from 8/21/23 to 8/20/24. On the Legacy Silver/Gold page, it says "Not Entrolled" and "No benefits assigned yet since you do not have active Legacy Silver or Gold Program membership yet." However - I am being told by partner support (who relies wayyyyy too heavily on AI to write their emails, btw) that as we have active legacy silver benefits, we cannot get our Solutions Partner benefits until this fall. On the Solutions Partner Designation Membership Offers, it says my renewal window is August 20 2024 - September 18 2024. Any ideas? This is extremely frustrating and support doesn't seem to understand what is going on - they have been doing webtrace / app troubleshooting. TIA.
Legacy gold partners - using attained Solution Designations badge
Hi Team, We are eligible for both Gold legacy and Solution Designation Partnership to renew our Partnership with Microsoft. I wanted to understand if we go-ahead renewing as legacy Gold Partner, will we be allowed to still use the attained solution partner designation badges - (not benefits of the Solution designation Program). Please let us know, thank you
