2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards – nomination window is now open!
Are you a Microsoft partner that has embraced the Microsoft marketplace as core to your go-to-market strategy? Either selling with or through other partners via marketplace? If so, we want to celebrate you! The nomination window for the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards is open now through July 18, 2025. Submit your nomination for a chance to be recognized as the Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year! About the Marketplace Partner of the Year Award: Recognizes partners that have successfully adopted the marketplace as core to their go-to-market and joint-selling opportunities with Microsoft. Partners positioned to win this award will demonstrate through their nomination how they are helping customers solve challenges and achieve business goals with their solutions offered through the marketplace. Successful entries will also include quantifiable success through growth in customer acquisition, marketplace billed sales (MBS), Azure consumption revenue (ACR), and/or billed seats – whether selling digital direct, through channel partners, or co-selling with Microsoft. Competitive submissions will demonstrate effective utilization of marketplace features such as private offers, multiparty private offers, and/or CSP private offers as well as opportunities Microsoft offers to build partnerships such as ISV Success and Marketplace Rewards. Preferred qualification – your organization has a publicly available offer that is transactable and surfaced on digital storefronts (Azure Marketplace and/or Microsoft AppSource). Call to Action Prepare your nomination & submit before July 18, 2025! Visit https://aka.ms/POTYA for more details. Additional resources: Complete award guidelines: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Guidelines Guidance from the judges: https://aka.ms/POTYA_JudgesGuidance Frequently asked questions: https://aka.ms/POTYA_FAQ
Seeking MSN PartnerHub Access: Invite Codes & Account Approval Support
Hi all, We are trying to onboard to MSN PartnerHub and need support with the following: Access invite codes Help with account approvals A point of contact for ongoing PartnerHub support We are happy to offer up to $3000 per successfully approved account for anyone who can help or refer us to the right internal team at Microsoft. If you have any information or contacts related to MSN PartnerHub onboarding, I would really appreciate your support. Thank you, Ayush Panjwani
Partner Registration Penalty Box
I'm trying to register as a partner but getting an error stating "http://www.microsoftintegrity.com/. We engage in a rigorous set of evaluation and certification processes; as a result your request was blocked. If you require further information please reach out to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=868372 with reference number: XXXXXXX" The problem is I can't get into the Partner Portal, as I'm not yet a partner, to raise said support request. I've tried to request resolution through Office 365 portal, hoping they'd facilitate contact with partner support but they seem to be confused as to how to facilitate the connection. I have no clue why I'm getting this error as I use the DUNS lookup to provide company information. I've also entered it in by hand. Would love to become a Microsoft partner with my venture but need some support to overcome this "penalty box" Anyone have ideas?How to keep an OKR focus post-Viva Goals with Perform365 and Engage365 in Microsoft AppSource
In this guest blog post, Henrik S. Eriksen, Senior VP of Corporate Strategy at Zensai, discusses the upcoming retirement of Viva Goals and how alternative solutions like Perform365 and Engage365 can help fill the void.
Need assistance: Unable to Remove GoDaddy as Partner/Reseller and Unfederate the Domain actus.law
I have been trying to resolve this issue for nearly four weeks, and been through many troubleshooting sessions and telephone calls with Microsoft Support, but this seems extremely complicated: The domain actus.law is owned by the Danish law firm Actus Law, and is registered with GoDaddy as the domain registrar. The Microsoft 365 tenant was originally created and federated by GoDaddy, who acted as the delegated administrator (via DAP/GDAP). On advice from a Microsoft Sales Advisor, Actus Law purchased a Microsoft 365 Business Standard license directly through Microsoft connected to the above tenant with the goal of managing the tenant independently through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center — without GoDaddy's involvement, beyond being the registrar. After the purchase it was impossible to manage users/licenses/domains in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, as the domain is federated and therefore all requests always get redirected to GoDaddy. It was therefore not possible to verify the domain or create any users. I contacted Microsoft Support on 8 May, where I was told that the way forward was to delete current DNS records and remove GoDaddy's partnership privileges in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. We therefore deleted all GoDaddy's delegated administrative privileges (GDAP/DAP) on 8 May 2025 and requested GoDaddy to end the reseller relationship. After this the support agent closed the ticket. This was handled through Support Ticket #2505081420003154. GoDaddy afterwards confirmed that they have removed all rights and that the domain is free to be unfederated. However, this did not solve the problem, since GoDaddy is still registered as partner and the domain is still federated. Therefore I am not allowed to make any changes and I always get redirected to GoDaddy when trying to manage anything in Microsoft 365 Admin Center. On 9 May I contacted Microsoft Support again and asked to disconnect the tenant from GoDaddy so I can manage everything in Microsoft 365 Support Center. This was under the Support Ticket #2505091420000046. The assigned agent tried during multiple weeks to troubleshoot and fix the problem with PowerShell commands using both MsolService and Microsoft.Graph, but always ended up getting access errors or insufficient privileges to perform the change in authorization from federated to managed. It has also not been possible to delete GoDaddy as partner. On 20 May I was asked to contact GoDaddy again to make sure that they had removed themselves as partner, and I got the following confirmation in writing from GoDaddy's Advanced Technical Support: "The Microsoft 365 organization for actus.law is no longer associated with GoDaddy. You can now reach out to Microsoft directly and receive support for a password reset for any admin user you need to access, or any other support issues. NOTE: If the domain is still set to use GoDaddy’s email login system you will need to ask Microsoft to “un-federate” the domain." On 21 May I explained GoDaddy's response in an email to the assigned agent, but now the agent simply stopped responding to my emails. I sent a reminder after 5 days, but did not get any response. On 28 May I called Microsoft Support and was assigned a new agent. That agent told me to contact GoDaddy, as it seems they still have visible GDAP, and only GoDaddy can remove that. Then the agent closed the ticket. I tried to contact GoDaddy afterwards, but they told me that the reseller relationship/GDAP was completely removed from GoDaddy's side on 8 May 2025 and all changes have propagated. However, since all GDAP/DAP had already been deleted at that point (which was done on 8 May, see above under number 4), GoDaddy could not remove it in Microsoft's systems according to the normal procedure so it is correctly reflected in the Microsoft 365 tenant. So they asked me to contact Microsoft Support again and explain the situation. WHAT I WANT TO ACHIEVE: I want GoDaddy completely removed as partner/administrator from my tenant and the domain actus.law to be "managed" and not "federated", so I can manage everything directly in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and use my Microsoft 365 Business license. CURRENT STATUS: GoDaddy says everything has been removed on their end and that only Microsoft can now unfederate the domain. Microsoft Support says GoDaddy still needs to remove DAP/GDAP — but I cannot see their DAP/GDAPS anywhere in the Admin Center, and GoDaddy says they’ve already done it. Does anyone have an idea of what to do in this situation? I would appreciate any help, I feel completely stuck, and I am unable to set up any users or mails 😒
