Azure sponsorship and cost management challenge
I am listening for years that Azure Sponsorship type of Azure subscriptions will get Azure Cost Management. This includes the view of prices inside portal.azure.com, managing budgets, checking each individual resources etc. Current / old portal - https://www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com/Usage , does not show costs per each resource (name), instead only per resources type. Not possible to set budgets, alerts, limits, and other things. So, again, when does Microsoft plans to upgrade Azure sponsorships to use Cost Management? Any reference (roadmap) link on this please?
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.TCS palkittiin Microsoftin Vuoden kumppanina Azure‑AI‑ratkaisuissa
Globaali IT-palvelutalo Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on voittanut Microsoftin vuoden 2025 globaalin kumppanipalkinnon sarjassa Azure – Build and Modernize AI Apps. Merkittävä tunnustus korostaa TCS:n roolia Microsoft Azure -pohjaisten liiketoimintaa uudistavien tekoälyratkaisuiden rakentamisessa. TCS hyödyntää tekoälyä parantamaan tuottavuutta, uudistamaan arvoketjuja ja nykyaikaistamaan toimintaa. TCS auttaa yrityksiä uudistamaan niiden dataympäristöjä ja ottamaan tekoälyn osaksi asiakasarvoketjuja ratkaisuilla, joissa yhdistyvät tekoälyalustat, mallintaminen, ihmislähtöinen suunnittelu, mitattava vaikutus ja läpinäkyvyys. TCS modernisoi sovelluksia tekoälyn avulla monipuolisesti eri toimialoilla, kuten valmistavassa teollisuudessa, logistiikassa ja finanssialalla. Hankkeiden onnistumista mitataan liiketoiminnan KPI-mittareilla ja ne noudattavat EU:n tekoälyasetuksen periaatteita. Tekoälyratkaisujen toteutuksessa TCS hyödyntää omia integroituja kiihdyttimiään, jotka perustuvat Microsoft Agentic AI -viitekehykseen ja SDLC-elinkaareen. ”Saamamme tunnustus on tärkeä osoitus TCS:n laajasta Microsoft Azure -osaamisesta ja onnistuneista asiakastoteutuksista. Kun suomalaiset yritykset määrittävät tekoälyn tulevaisuutta, maassa on merkittävästi kysyntää Azure-tekoälysovelluksille kaikilla toimialoilla. Siksi tarjoamme myös suomalaisasiakkaillemme sovellusten modernisointipalveluita heidän tarpeisiinsa räätälöidysti. Palvelut voivat olla erityisen hyödyllisiä esimerkiksi valmistavassa teollisuudessa, finanssialalla ja julkisella sektorilla”, TCS:n Suomen maajohtaja Subhadipta Samantray sanoo. Microsoft jakoi vuoden kumppanipalkintonsa Microsoft Ignite 2025 -tapahtumassa. TCS esitteli tapahtumassa kolme uraauurtavaa, Microsoftin alustoilla toimivaa tekoälypohjaista ratkaisua modernisoinnin nopeuttamiseksi, IT-toimintojen automatisoimiseksi ja kyberturvallisuuden vahvistamiseksi: TCS Agentic SDLC on Microsoft Azure auttaa yrityksiä kehittämään ohjelmistoja nopeammin pilvipohjaisen arkkitehtuurin ja edistyksellisen tekoälyn avulla. Ratkaisu hyödyntää Microsoftin teknologiaa kehitysprosessien älykkääseen koordinointiin. TCS Autonomous Operations on Microsoft Azure automatisoi IT-toiminnot erikoistuneiden tekoälyagenttien avulla, jotka hallinnoivat alusta- ja sovellustoimintoja. Tämä vähentää tikettien määrää ja nopeuttaa ongelmien ratkaisua. TCS MXDR Services with Microsoft tunnistaa ja hallitsee kyberuhkia reaaliaikaisesti yhdistämällä TCS:n tekoälyosaamisen Microsoftin tietoturvatyökaluihin. Zero trust -periaatteen mukainen tietoturva varmistaa yrityksille turvallisen kasvun toimintaympäristössä, jonka uhat ovat yhä monimutkaisempia.Americas & EMEA Fabric Engineering Connection
Excited to share what’s ahead for this week’s Fabric Engineering Connection sessions — your weekly opportunity to hear directly from the Microsoft Fabric engineering teams and stay ahead of what’s coming next in the platform. 🎙️ Featured Topics & Speakers: 🔧 Updates on DBT Job Abhishek Narain, Principal PM Manager 🤖 Upcoming Capabilities in Fabric Data Agents Misha Desai, Principal Product Manager Virginia Roman, Senior Product Manager Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna, Product Manager 🌍 Americas & EMEA 📅 Wednesday, February 25 ⏰ 8:00–9:00 AM PT 🌏 APAC 📅 Thursday, February 26 ⏰ 1:00–2:00 AM UTC (Also available Wednesday, February 25, 5:00–6:00 PM PT) Whether you're deep in deployment, scaling customer workloads, or exploring new Fabric capabilities, these sessions are packed with insights to help you accelerate your practice. 👉 Not yet part of the Fabric Partner Community? Join here: https://lnkd.in/g_PRdfjt Let’s keep learning, building, and shaping the future of Fabric—together. 💡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!
