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.Join the Fabric Partner Community for the next Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft partner that is interested in data and analytics? Be sure to join us for the next Fabric Engineering Connection call, now offered at two different times! 🎉 Next week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls will include Mirroring Updates from Maraki Ketema and Swetha Mannepalli along with a presentation from Amir H. Jafari on Data Agent Integrations with Power BI Copilot, AI Foundry, and Copilot Studio. The Americas/EMEA Fabric Engineering Connection call will take place Wednesday, May 28, from 8-9 am PDT. The APAC Fabric Engineering Connection call will take place Thursday, May 29, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, May 28, from 5-6 pm PDT. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To join 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 can't wait to see you later this week!Microsoft Ignite 2024: Empowering partners to drive growth and innovation
Today marked the start of Microsoft Ignite, our biggest customer and partner event of the year, showcasing the latest innovation, product updates, and breakthroughs across our business. Partners from around the world joined us to learn how Microsoft is investing in partner success and creating new opportunities to accelerate growth and help customers transform their businesses with AI. Today, we are announcing upwards of 80 new products and features, including new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot, additions to the Copilot + AI stack and new Copilot+ devices offerings. Underpinning each of these innovations is our commitment to security. Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work, and we have seen the momentum grow as more organizations are moving to Copilot and using it successfully to increase employee productivity. Microsoft is continuing to supercharge productivity with new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot designed to help simplify the workday. Copilot + AI Stack – The Copilot stack empowers users to build more ambitious products by leveraging advanced technology at each layer of the stack. Today we’re announcing Azure AI Foundry, where organizations design, customize, and manage the next generation of AI apps and agents at scale. Azure AI Foundry brings together our wide collection of foundation, open, industry, and task models, AI tooling, and safety and monitoring solutions into a single experience. Foundry helps businesses efficiently and cost-effectively design and scale their AI applications while empowering IT pros to manage AI safety, reliability, and performance. Security – Since launching our Secure Future Initiative (SFI) one year ago, we have made security the No. 1 job of every employee at Microsoft, dedicated 34,000 engineers to this focus and, at Ignite, we are announcing innovations that are rooted in our SFI principles: secure by design, secure by default, and secure operations. These are just some of the over 200 announcements made at Microsoft Ignite today. For the full list be sure to check out the Microsoft Ignite blog and the event Book of News. Continue reading herePartnership merge process really frustrates partners (me)
Gents and ladies I am the Alliance Manager Microsoft for one of our divisions at Orange Business And am REALLY frustrated over here in Stockholm at the moment 🙂 We merged two entities in our divisions partnerships January 29, 2024, 12:17:17 (UTC). One partnership merging in to held 5/6 designations - all except Business Applications. The other "only" held the Business Applications designation + of course had vital "points" in the other 5 programs as well Merged together = Solutions Partner - Microsoft Cloud The merge process seems to be so perfectly designed: Invite Accept Initiate 17 secs later one gets a message "merge complete" 😎 Complete in my partner mind means - COMPLETE But, only some things has now happened in Partner Center at this COMPLETE time The merged domain and Identifiers For other very vital parts, one had to wait (and pray that they will "happen" - as the process is COMPLETE) The payment profiles arrived after +1 h and I could verify them "Points" for the programs from certified staff in the merged partnership arrived like 3 days later Now, +1 week later - I still have no points in the programs from customers (CSP/CPOR/PAL) And when creating a support ticket, I´m guided to the Docs article describing "the merge process" that I have read 100s of times working in my alliance manager role for several partners over the years! COMPLETE must mean COMPLETE dear Microsoft Most stressful with this - our renewal period opens on Thursday And in the Membership overview I don´t have the points necessary for renewal of the achieved partner programs (as Microsoft has NOT (manually) refreshed the data after the merge - that they have marked COMPLETE) Sorry for frustration - but I am VERY frustrated over this process - that seems so very well designed - and FAST! I expect someone from the MAICPP program to catch this! Note: I used bullets, numbers and added a picture to the post - but all that falls away after saving! // Gabbe
