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**Updated 12/23/24 ISV Success is now supporting a series of AI-focused events to help partners maximize the AI opportunity when building and publishing solutions to the commercial marketplace. These events are open to all partners on marketplace – participation in ISV Success is not required to attend. Stay updated on the latest offerings bysubscribing to this post, where we will be regularly updating our list of upcoming events and sharing links to recent events. Full instructions on how to subscribe are posted at the bottom of this post. Check out our upcoming AI events below and comment with any of your questions! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ISV AI Envisioning Day Trainings We are excited to announce the launch of two new ISV AI Envisioning Day training courses introducing tools and frameworks to leverage in building AI applications that drive innovation and business value. Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Identify and Prioritize Use Cases for AI Solutions This session guides you through the process of identifying and prioritizing business use cases for AI solutions. You will learn how to structure each use case to assess its viability, differentiate its value, and explore learning opportunities. Practical advice and actionable steps will be provided to help you kickstart your AI projects and accelerate time-to-market. Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Get the Framework to Develop AI Solutions In this envisioning session, you will learn how to effectively plan, build, and deploy your AI solution. You will be empowered with tools and frameworks to guide you through the technical and business considerations to evaluate when determining the best approach to use in building your AI application. Whether you’re just beginning to identify and prioritize AI use cases or are ready to begin planning, building, and deploying solutions, you’ll learn the steps to make AI a reality in your organization. Both ISV AI Envisioning Day training courses will run monthly in multiple time zones and are delivered in English. Check back for upcoming session dates and times. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ISV Security Series The ISV Security Series is designed to empower ISVs to not only defend against current threats but also anticipate and prepare for future challenges. Whether you are just starting your security journey or looking to enhance your existing strategies, this series provides the insights and resources you need to succeed. Join us in creating a safer digital ecosystem – one that fosters innovation without compromise. Register for the upcoming session at aka.ms/asiaisvsecurity January 2025 Design Your Product with Security in Mind Learn strategies for integrating security into product development, addressing common challenges when security is an afterthought, and building resilience into your product lifecycle. February 2025 Build Secure Multitenant Solutions: Identity and Access Management for ISVs Explore strategies for designing secure multitenant architectures, focusing on tenant isolation, user authentication, authorization, and modern security practices like Zero Trust. March 2025 Strengthen the ISV Supply Chain with DevSecOps Practices Discover how DevSecOps practices can secure your software supply chain, automate compliance checks, and build customer trust by delivering secure, reliable applications. April 2025 Safeguard Data Security & Privacy in AI-Driven Applications Gain insights into implementing robust data security and privacy measures for AI-powered solutions, ensuring compliance, and creating trusted experiences for your customers. May 2025 Enhanced Threat Detection & Monitoring for AI Solutions Learn about advanced techniques for detecting and monitoring security risks in AI-driven applications, including real-time threat intelligence and anomaly detection. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Copilot Developer Camp Join us for the Copilot Developer Camp—an immersive workshop designed for professional developers eager to expand their skills with Copilot for Microsoft 365 or create custom copilots. This free, one-day workshop, held right after the AI tour, aims to equip developers, ISVs, and tech enthusiasts with the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to enhance and extend Copilot’s capabilities for Microsoft 365. This is an in-person workshop offered in multiple locations. It is aimed at Developers, ISV partners, product centric companies, and enterprise developers. You will walk away with an understanding of the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot and its extensibility AI models. See the different methods to develop Copilot agents utilizing Microsoft 365 Copilot's AI and orchestration on how to create a custom engine agent using Azure AI Studio and Teams AI library. How to develop a Declarative agent that includes a Build custom action for your agent via API plugins. Check here for upcoming dates and locations: Copilot Developer Camp Registration _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals Join us for Azure AI Fundamentals, a free virtual training designed to build your technical expertise in AI and machine learning on Microsoft Azure. This course will dive into core AI concepts and foundational workloads, offering hands-on insights into Azure AI services that power intelligent applications. You'll explore machine learning models, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities such as sentiment analysis, language detection, and key phrase extraction. With guidance from Microsoft experts, you’ll gain the skills needed to analyze and automate workflows, develop AI-driven solutions, and ensure responsible AI use across applications. Use the link below to see the full list of upcoming sessions available for registration. Multiple dates and time zones are available, and new sessions are added frequently. Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Azure: Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service Trainings Join us at Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service to learn how to work with powerful large language models, including GPT. You’ll gain deeper insight into the benefits of natural language processing, including its ability to generate transformative content. You’ll also discover how to provision Azure OpenAI, deploy models and effectively use language models in generative AI applications. Use the link below to see the full list of upcoming sessions available for registration. Multiple dates and time zones are available, and new sessions are added frequently. Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service Note that all sessions are delivered in English. Caption languages are available and noted in the session registration. Registration closes 2 days prior to scheduled date/time. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Azure: Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub Build the skills you need to create new opportunities and accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn. Join us at Accelerate Development Using Azure DevOps and GitHub to discover the right tools and processes to make your move to DevOps. We’ll walk you through real-world challenges and show you how to resolve them using Azure DevOps and GitHub—for both admins and end users. Use the link below to see the full list of upcoming sessions available for registration. Multiple dates and time zones are available, and new sessions are added frequently. Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub Note that all sessions are delivered in English. Caption languages are available and noted in the session registration. Registration closes 2 days prior to scheduled date/time. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Azure AI Partner Council & AI Visionaries The Azure AI Partner Council & AI Visionaries is excited to deliver new AI webinars to enhance your learning and help you navigate the future of AI. Check back for upcoming sessions. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to this post If you're not a member of the Tech Community already, create an account at techcommunity.microsoft.com Select "subscribe" from the 3-dot dropdown in the upper-right corner of this post. Under "Notification Settings," select "Notify me ofAny edits & commentson knowledge bases articles I subscribe to," thenselect to receive updates to this post either immediately, daily, or weekly (I recommend weekly). Manage your subscription settings so that you can receive email updates on new events. Manage these settings by selecting your profile icon in the top right corner of the community, selecting "My Settings," and selecting "Subscriptions & Notifications." You can also subscribe to the entire marketplace community which will provide you with regular updates on all marketplace discussion topics happening in this forum. To do this, click "subscribe" in the upper right corner of the marketplace community homepage.New updates to Partner Center make co-selling easier
Here’s something you might’ve missed that will make it easier to Co-sell on the commercial marketplace. Microsoft recently made an update in Partner Center that many still haven’t noticed - and this change is making it easier to to co-sell. For Active Co-sell deals, the Microsoft seller contact previously was not visible to partners. Now, when you view a co-sell deal, you can see: ✅ Contact information (name & email address) for the Microsoft seller. ✅ A clear handoff trail from co-sell operations to the assigned seller. This isn’t just a UI change - it enables better collaboration. Knowing the Microsoft seller helps streamline communication, prioritize collaboration, and strengthen the co-sell relationship. This transparency makes it easier to align efforts and drive the deal to success. Haven’t checked yet? Explore your Partner Center referrals to see this update in action now!AppSource Marketplace bugs
Hi everyone, We recently noticed some bugs on the Marketplace, such as the call-to-action button displaying “CTA_Get” instead of the correct label. I’m curious—has anyone else experienced similar issues? It’d be great to know if this is isolated or more widespread. Thanks for sharing your feedback!Issues with Partner Support
I am having some problems with Partner support (created a ticket over a month ago and they kept asking for information saying that it was ok and then asking for the same information again and in the last two weeks they just ignore the emails). I am wondering if anyone else has have similar issues in the past and how can we escalate this (Usually based on the v- account I can contact some of my contacts in Microsoft and they can help me escalate within the team, but it seems that the partner support team uses the generic email address removed for privacy reasons)?Critical! SaaS App review and rating synchronized with the wrong AppSource App!
First of all. THANK YOU SO MUCH for finally making a synchronization between the SaaS App and the corresponding App in AppSource. HOWEVER! the SaaS app is synchronizing with the wrong App in AppSource. This is critical, I don't have time for support to first acknowledge it and then find time to make the fix. I need this to be done immediately. Can a responsible please take action. The problem. In AppSource I have a free version - iPlanner Free - that only offers 20% of the App that is purchased using the SaaS App - iPlanner Pro. The free version have pure ratings in compare to the Pro version. I of course don't want customer to use the free I want them to purchase the Pro with the SaaS App. In my Marketplace listening I am connecting the SaaS App to iPlanner Pro in AppSource. For that reason it is odd why you guys synchronizing with the wrong app. The problem is taking the review and rating to the SaaS app makes my subscribed based app look very bad. This is highly critical and is also very wrong. The reviews shown on the SaaS app comes from the wrong app. I would appreciate if this can be fixed asap. I am sure you guys can see that it is critical. Thank you and happy holydays to all in the community.
Differences in the payment schedules
When selling through the Azure Marketplace there are various payout schedules. In the reports i see different types of 'Sales Channels'. There is: Enterprise Go to Market Pay as you Go But in the documentation (link) there are other terms that are being used EA MCA CSP Can anyone else to explain in detail when we can expect to get the money for each type of Sales Channel? Thank you.
Deployment 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?
In case you missed it, recent Azure AI innovation announcements
In case you missed it, learn about recent AI announcements Microsoft made at Ignite 2024 including what’s new in Azure AI Governance, Azure AI Model Catalog, Azure AI Search, Fin-Tuning in Azure OpenAI Service, new partner models and more. Azure AI Governance, Risk, & Compliance AI reportswill help organizations improve cross-functional observability, collaboration and governance when developing and deploying generative AI (GenAI) apps and fine-tuned models. The Azure AI Foundry SDK and Azure AI Foundry portal will make it easier for organizations to create impact assessments for their AI apps by helping developers assemble key project details, such as model cards, model versions, content safety filter configurations and evaluation metrics, into a unified AI report. These reports can be exported to PDF or SPDX formats, helping development teams demonstrate production readiness within governance, risk and compliance (GRC) workflows and facilitate easier, ongoing audits of apps in production. This update will be in private preview next month. Risk and safety evaluations forimage contentwill help users assess the frequency and severity of harmful content in their app’s AI-generated outputs. Specifically, these evaluations will expand existing text-based evaluation capabilities in Azure AI to assess a broader set of interactions with GenAI, such as text inputs that yield image outputs, image and text inputs that yield text outputs, and images that contain text (i.e., memes) as inputs that yield text and/or image outputs. These evaluations will help organizations better understand potential risks and apply targeted mitigations, such as modifying multimodal content filters with Azure AI Content Safety, adjusting grounding data sources or updating their system message before deploying an app to production. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about AI reports Blog:Learn more about risk and safety evaluations Azure AI Model Catalog The Azure AI model catalog is adding the latest AI models from leading innovators, enabling organizations to choose the right model for the right use case. Models from NTT DATA, (generally available) and Bria AI (in preview), help organizations bring generative AI capabilities to their apps, while industry-specific models will empower developers to pursue solutions specific to healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing and finance. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about this news Azure Essentials Microsoft launchedAzure Essentialsto help customers improve the reliability, security and ongoing performance of their cloud and AI investments by providing a single place to access a comprehensive set of resources including tooling, skilling, guidance, reference architectures and best practices. Azure Essentials makes it possible to adopt AI at scale while aligning to Trustworthy AI principles and provides organizations with a clear path to maximize the value of their AI investment. AI scenario within the Cloud Adoption Framework equipstechnical decision-makers with prescriptive guidance to help prepare organizations to deploy AI workloads in production. The Cloud Adoption Framework methodologies have been adapted to Responsible AI principles so customers can build an AI foundation that supports the design, governance and ongoing management of AI workloads. It helps users with everything from developing an adoption strategy to managing AI workloads in production. AI workload within the Azure Well-Architected Framework supportsarchitects in decision-making when designing their AI workloads. This new guidance allows AI architects to meet the functional and non-functional requirements for reliability, security, performance efficiency, operational excellence and cost optimization. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about this news Azure AI Search Updates to Azure AI Search, in preview, will help developers deliver better AI apps with improved retrieval augmented generation (RAG) performance. Query rewriting, available in preview, and semantic ranker are now powered by new, upgraded language models that deliver better responses and improved app experiences.In addition,Azure AI Search will soon be integrated with GitHub Models, enabling developers to explore and build a RAG application using a free AI Search index, directly from GitHub marketplace. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about this news Fine-Tuning in AOAI Service New fine-tuning options in Azure OpenAI Service will enable developers and data scientists to customize models for their business needs. This will include support for fine-tuning GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini onProvisionedandGlobal Standard deployments, in preview next month. Additionally, developers will be able to leverage an end-to-end distillation workflow usingEvaluation, in preview, andStored Completions, in preview next month, to fine-tune cost-effective models, like GPT-4o mini with outputs from advanced models. Multimodal fine-tuning for GPT-4o with vision is now generally available. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about this news Partner Models New partner-enabled, adapted AI models address industry-specific use cases to help organizations across industries transform and accelerate business outcomes. Through the Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft’s industry-specific AI capabilities and a trusted ecosystem of experienced partners, these new adapted AI models will empower customers to use AI technology to address their most pressing needs. Partners leveraging the power of Microsoft’s Phi family of small language models include: Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of healthcare and agriculture, makes L.Y. Crop Protection available in the Azure AI model catalog, for use by agronomic entities and their partners to advance agronomic knowledge and crop protection label compliance. Agronomists can use the model to enhance farmers’ decision-making processes, helping to drive more sustainable outcomes. Cerence, a global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the mobility world, is enhancing its in-vehicle digital assistant technology with fine-tuned small language models (SLMs) within the vehicle’s hardware. The Cerence CaLLM Edge model, available in the Azure AI model catalog, can be used for in-car controls, such as adjusting air conditioning systems, and scenarios that involve limited or no cloud connectivity. Rockwell Automation, a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation, will provide industrial AI expertise via the Azure AI model catalog. The FT Optix Food & Beverage model brings the benefits of industry-specific capabilities to frontline workers in manufacturing, supporting asset troubleshooting in the food and beverage domain. Saifr, a RegTech within Fidelity Investment’s innovation incubator, Fidelity Labs, introduces four new models in the Azure AI model catalog, empowering financial institutions to better manage regulatory compliance of broker-dealer communications and investment adviser advertising. The Retail Marketing Compliance model can help ensure marketing materials adhere to industry regulations and standards, while the Risk Interpretation model identifies and helps users understand potential risks in marketing content. The Language Suggestion model provides language suggestions to enhance the compliance of marketing messages, and the Image Detection model assists users with analyzing and verifying the appropriateness of images used in marketing campaigns. Siemens Digital Industries Software, which helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform, is introducing a new copilot for NX X software. It leverages an adapted AI model that enables users to ask natural language questions, access detailed technical insights and streamline complex design tasks for faster and smarter product development. Sight Machine, a leader in data-driven manufacturing and industrial AI, will release the Factory Namespace Manager to the Azure AI model catalog. The model helps manufacturers rename and integrate factory data with their corporate data systems, enabling them to analyze and optimize production alongside supply chain, sales, finance and other corporate functions. Additional resources: Blog:Learn more about this news
