Annual/monthly price increase per 1st of April 2025
Hi Microsoft, Besides the discussion on the price increase itself: November 2024 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn I'm wondering how this "standardizing the billing structure" works for triannual subscriptions. The post only states that Annual subscriptions with Monthly payment term will undergo a +5% price increase. But how will this affect multi-year subscriptions? Eg. Triannual subscription with annual payment term. Cheers, Martijn
Toll-free numbers for Microsoft Teams now supported on NCE
We have exciting news! The New Commerce Experience (NCE) now supports the ability to acquire toll-free numbers for Microsoft Teams. Previously, customers would need to subscribe to Communication Credits to be able to acquire toll-free numbers for Audio Conferencing, auto attendant and call queue capabilities available with Microsoft Teams Phone. The requirement for Communication Credits had blocked customers on NCE from acquiring toll-free numbers. Please see the following guidance on how to acquire toll-free numbers on NCE. For customers who are moving from legacy (Communication Credits) to NCE or have already moved from legacy to NCE, partners will need to follow the steps below to ensure pay-as-you-go for toll-free numbers is set up correctly: Confirm that pay-as-you-go has been set up for the customer’s subscription: New commerce telco pay-as-you-go - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn Buy a pay-as-you-go calling plan for your Microsoft Teams subscription | Microsoft Learn Disable “Auto-recharge” for Communication Credits (if currently or previously on legacy) If the Communications Credit balance is zero, and telco pay-as-you-go has been configured for the customer by the CSP, then the commerce system will automatically move the customer to postpaid and the new meter will be validated. If the customer has a positive balance for Communications Credits, the commerce tool will be able to automatically identify this, and the remaining Communication Credits will be used for billing until the remaining balance is drained. Important note: Most customers have the “Auto-recharge” flag enabled within their account which will automatically refill their Communications Credit balance to whatever threshold level they configured it. You will need to disable this option if they wish to utilize the consumption meter; otherwise, the Communications Credit balance will indefinitely refill itself and the commerce system won't switch to the post-pay mechanism. See screenshots below for how to disable Auto-recharge. Resources New commerce telco pay-as-you-go - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn Buy a pay-as-you-go calling plan for your Microsoft Teams subscription | Microsoft Learn\ Read the Partner Center Announcement here: https://learn.microsoft.com/partner-center/announcements/2024-february#toll-free-numbers-for-microsoft-teams-now-supported-on-nce
New FY26 incentive guidelines
Hope someone can share some insights on this, as Microsoft is publishing conflicting messages. Starting October, Microsoft will change the incentive requirements for partners. In the announcement it is stated that partners will earn incentives if they have 25 points in EACH solution area. Source: May 2025 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn In other presentations published, it stated 25 points in a SPECIFIC solutions area. Source: Microsoft Commerce Incentive Resources Conflicting messages from Microsoft, so which is it? The nuance is a big difference for partners. I'd assume the latter is correct. Also note that the incentives will be split further between solution areas. And note the increased thresholds for Direct Bill partners. Cheers, Martijn
Error message: unable to validate your 'Create new GDAP relationship'
In Partner Center I want to create an admin relationship request for a certain customer. As you can see below I receive an error message when I clicked on 'finalize request'. The details of the error message: We are unable to validate your 'Create new GDAP relationship' request at this time. Be advised anonymous connections are not allowed for this service. If you believe you received this message in error, please try your request again. Click to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/gdap-faq?branch=main#what-action-must-a-partner-perform-for-a-715-123220-error-or-anonymous-connections-are-not-allowed-for-this-service. If the issue persists, contact support and reference message code 715-123220 and Transaction ID: xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. I tried to create a request on different times of the day and even my colleague doesn't managed to finalize the request because she also receives the same message. Does anyone here has a solution for this because I need to create this request as soon as possible. Thanks in advance!
