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119 TopicsFAQs from Mastering the Marketplace: Developing your virtual machine offer
Developing your virtual machine offer is a webinar offered regularly through the Mastering the Marketplace series. This session reviews the required technical configurations to make Virtual Machine apps and how to publish virtual machines offers to the Azure marketplace. Looking for additional guidance with Virtual Machines? An Azure technical expert will take you through: A brief overview of what a virtual Machine offer type is. How to publish a Virtual machine offer and integrate the solution from the Azure Portal tool to Partner center. How to setup Tenants. How to create different plans to best suit your customers’ needs How to use Cloud-init within the Azure Portal. Attendees can also participate in a short Q&A following the session. Below is a list of recently asked questions from this session. Q1. Once I published the image to the gallery, does it make sense to keep the generalized VM around (if yes, then for what purpose?) or may I delete it? A: You can delete the image after the offer is published live on the marketplace. At full publish, MS maintains a registry of your images, so you no longer have to hold on to it. Q2. Does the standard Microsoft Marketplace agreement work both for transactable and non-transactable? A: Yes it does. It simply is an option for your T&C if you don't have your own. Q3. Last time we used the Direct Shared Gallery it was in Preview and sharing was severely limited (only a few tenants and subscriptions). What is the situation now? A: As of August 2024 it still has these limitations. You can share it across subscriptions on the same tenant but not across tenants. If that doesn't work, you can use a vhd link to publish the VM offer. Q4. What would you recommend in terms of maintenance of the image and how many resources (team size) they would need and how much time they would need to for turnaround. It depends on the image being built out. But once its created and published, marketplace has the image stored, so they no longer need to keep the image after publishing. __________________________________________________________ Additional Resources: Register for the next webinar on Developing your virtual machine offer, August 20 at 9 am PT. Register for additional Mastering the Marketplace webinars here.258Views2likes0CommentsEmbedding security in ISV applications
Discover how embedding security into product design is not just a necessity but a game-changer in today's digital landscape. Learn how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are leading the charge in creating secure and scalable solutions that businesses around the world rely on. Read more to understand the critical role of security in product development and stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of cyber threats. Design secure and resilient ISV applications Join ISV Security sessions to stay updated on the latest best practices12Views1like0CommentsHow we increased trials 200% with Marketplace Rewards
Hi All, Kitameraki Limited's TeamsWork brand provides intuitive and collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams that cater to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses and has successfully launched Ticketing As A Service and Checklist As A Service apps, and just recently CRM As A Service App on the Microsoft Marketplaces. As a Microsoft partner for nearly four years, TeamsWork recognized the importance of maximizing visibility and reach within the Microsoft ecosystem. Our team has been able to leverage many of the benefits available through Marketplace Rewards to help drive significant growth and quantifiable results, thanks to expert guidance and the broad range of resources available to better market apps on Microsoft marketplaces. Just a few of these benefits included: The listing optimization allowed us to receive expert recommendations from Microsoft about how to optimize our marketplace offer pages. Azure sponsorship credits cut down on our costs of marketplace solutions. Press release support featuring a quote from a Microsoft executive helped amplify the announcement of our marketplace availability Our customer success story demonstrated how one of our customers increased administrative efficiency by 20 percent using our marketplace solution. featured category placement on the Azure Marketplace, which spotlighted TeamsWork and drove more users to view offer pages. Marketplace Rewards has helped drive a 200% increase in new trials for our marketplace offerings! Read the full story here: Kitameraki case study What success has your organization seen with Marketplace Rewards?21Views3likes1CommentO3-Mini Reasoning Model, now available in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
Today, Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s new O3-mini model is now generally available in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. Building on the foundation of the O1 model, O3-mini delivers a new level of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reasoning capabilities. Key Features of O3-Mini: Reasoning Effort Parameter: Allows users to adjust the model’s cognitive load with low, medium, and high reasoning levels, providing greater control over response and latency. Structured Outputs: Supports JSON Schema constraints, making it easier to generate well-defined, structured outputs for automated workflows. Functions and Tools Support: Seamlessly integrates with functions and external tools, ideal for AI-powered automation. Developer Messages: The “role”: “developer” attribute replaces the system message in previous models, offering more flexible and structured instruction handling. Continued Strength in Coding, Math, and Scientific Reasoning: Enhances capabilities in these critical areas, ensuring high performance. With these improvements in speed, control, and cost-efficiency, O3-mini is optimized for enterprise AI solutions, enabling businesses to scale their AI applications efficiently while maintaining precision and reliability. Learn more: Announcing the availability of the o3-mini reasoning model in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Azure Blog1.3KViews0likes0CommentsApp Source Canvas App - how to prevent customers seeing code and functionality
We are a small ISV and have published a PowerPlatform solution with a canvas app. While we published as a managed solution, etc. we are seeing that our customers can edit the app and see all the code and functionality we've built. Our 2025 plan includes ramping up several new App Source offerings with Canvas Apps included, but we won't be doing that if we can't protect our efforts and someone can easily replicate. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! After a customer purchased this solution, this is what they can see when selecting "App" - clearly you can see they can edit it and did confirm they can go in an navigate through the app in the editor and see al the code, etc. This is the solution view - it is working as expected by preventing the editing. This is the offer. Business Apps – Microsoft AppSource29Views1like1CommentPower Your Agents with Azure Logic Apps
Want to build powerful AI-driven applications without writing complex code? With Azure AI Agent Service and Logic Apps, you can automate workflows, integrate services, and enhance agent capabilities using a simple, visual approach. Discover how these tools can streamline your development process—read the full article to learn more!26Views1like0CommentsEmpowering AI Innovation with Azure AI Foundry
The Azure AI Partner Council is excited to share the next session on Azure AI Foundry in our education series. Partners, Innovators and Azure AI Champs, join us for an engaging session on Azure AI Foundry, where we will explore the latest advancements, key features, and future roadmap of this powerful AI platform. This session is designed for technical partners (ISV, Digital Natives, Service Integrators) and Innovators who are looking to leverage Azure AI Foundry to drive innovation and enhance their AI capabilities. We will provide an overview of the platform, showcase key demos, and discuss the latest announcements and updates with a tech deep dive. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how Azure AI Foundry can help them build and operate production AI systems and applications at scale, and how they can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. January 30th, 8:00-9:00am PST Learn more and register here for this online session17Views1like0CommentsBuild your own agents: ISV partner training January 28-31
I'm thrilled to share our upcoming ISV-focused partner training next week, titled "Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities". Join us for this virtual three-day event to learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and building custom agents. Explore how to use natural language processing and pro-code capabilities to build custom agents that help users achieve greater business productivity. January 28-30, 2025, APAC (IST) January 29-31, 2025, EMEA (GMT), Americas (PST) Register today69Views2likes0CommentsExciting opportunity to see significant updates to App Advisor & provide feedback
Hi Marketplace Community! App advisor on the ISV Hub provides self-serve, step-by-step curated guidance to any ISV, wherever they start. App advisor helps ISVs like you build, publish, and sell apps through the commercial marketplace. We are getting ready to launch exciting updates to the app advisor experience and are looking for ISVs willing to meet with us in a 45-minute session to be scheduled between January 20-23, 2025, and provide feedback. This is a great opportunity for you to help shape the future for all ISVs! We are looking for: ISVs who build commercially focused (B2B) apps intended for repeatable sales through cloud marketplaces or are considering doing so. Whether you are a Microsoft partner or not, or have a published app or not, we'd love to get your feedback. Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/bkJC3HCnYh Can't wait to hear from you.14Views2likes0CommentsDeployment on a CSP managed tenant
There is a public transactable offer that is listed. Based on customer requirements and pricing negotiations, we are deploying via private plans. However, when the customer account is managed by a CSP (rather than pay as you go), the transactions reflect in the name of the CSP and not the end customer leading to processes like Top Tier not recognizing it as an individual customer. Is there a best practice for the same?32Views0likes1Comment