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Empowering AI Innovation with Azure AI Foundry
The Azure AI Partner Council is excited to share the next session on Azure AI Foundry in our education series. Partners, Innovators and Azure AI Champs, join us for an engaging session on Azure AI Foundry, where we will explore the latest advancements, key features, and future roadmap of this powerful AI platform. This session is designed for technical partners (ISV, Digital Natives, Service Integrators) and Innovators who are looking to leverage Azure AI Foundry to drive innovation and enhance their AI capabilities. We will provide an overview of the platform, showcase key demos, and discuss the latest announcements and updates with a tech deep dive. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how Azure AI Foundry can help them build and operate production AI systems and applications at scale, and how they can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. January 30th, 8:00-9:00am PST Learn more and register here for this online sessionApp name blocked on Marketplace submission
Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to the community in hopes that someone has encountered a similar issue and can provide guidance. We’ve developed a new app that we’re ready to submit to the Microsoft Marketplace with a transactable offer. However, during the submission process, we’re encountering a roadblock: when entering the desired app name, we receive the following message: "The name is not available." I contacted email address removed for privacy reasons for clarification, as the name isn’t currently used by any other app or offer and doesn’t appear to violate Microsoft’s naming conventions. They redirected me to Partner Center Support, where I was informed that the issue is being reviewed internally. Unfortunately, I haven’t received any clear explanation or resolution so far. To support our case, we’ve demonstrated that: We own the domain name associated with the app name. We have 16 other products and apps with a similar naming convention, ensuring brand consistency. Despite this, we’re still waiting for a response. Has anyone else faced a similar issue? Any advice on how to navigate this or expedite the process would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!Build your own agents: ISV partner training January 28-31
I'm thrilled to share our upcoming ISV-focused partner training next week, titled "Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities". Join us for this virtual three-day event to learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and building custom agents. Explore how to use natural language processing and pro-code capabilities to build custom agents that help users achieve greater business productivity. January 28-30, 2025, APAC (IST) January 29-31, 2025, EMEA (GMT), Americas (PST) Register todayTeams App - Copilot vs Azure Open AI
Morning, For our gauge.it Teams app we have implemented AI to allow the feedback generated by employees to be summarised into suggestions for the manager. When we look at the Team's store I would like it to appear in the AI-powered apps - what is the best process for doing this if we are using Azure Open AI, do we need to add anything to the manifest when pushing the update? Thanks AlasdairAppSource 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!
App Source Canvas App - how to prevent customers seeing code and functionality
We are a small ISV and have published a PowerPlatform solution with a canvas app. While we published as a managed solution, etc. we are seeing that our customers can edit the app and see all the code and functionality we've built. Our 2025 plan includes ramping up several new App Source offerings with Canvas Apps included, but we won't be doing that if we can't protect our efforts and someone can easily replicate. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! After a customer purchased this solution, this is what they can see when selecting "App" - clearly you can see they can edit it and did confirm they can go in an navigate through the app in the editor and see al the code, etc. This is the solution view - it is working as expected by preventing the editing. This is the offer. Business Apps – Microsoft AppSourceJanuary 30th at 8:30 am PST: Channel partner office hours Q&A: Marketplace Rewards - extended!
Calling all channel partners! Join our next office hours Q&A, coming up on January 30. The Marketplace Rewards for Channel Partners Pilot has been extended through June 30th, 2025. In this session, my teammates Luxmi_Nagaraj and jasonrook will provide an update on Marketplace Rewards and cover the following topics: *Overview of Marketplace Rewards benefits tiers and changes to the pilot *Essential tips for utilizing Azure Sponsorship to win multiparty private offer deals *Lessons learned from successful partners *A look forward at the future of Marketplace Rewards *Q&A Register here.
Publishing a SaaS offer for PowerApps a canvas app in AppSource
Hello, We have been trying for many months now to publish our PowerApps canvas apps as a SaaS offer, thereby allowing us to have transactable, licensed customers. Through a lot of effort, we managed to get some support where we were told quite vaguely how to achieve this, but without any meaningful guidance we are struggling as we are a small ISV with expertise in our actual business, and Power Platform. We are not, however, experts in SQL (that's being generous) or in creating APIs which seem to be a requirement to keep track of user licenses and feeding the data to our canvas app. If anyone here has any info on this, or how they might have achieved it themselves it would be massively appreciated, as we can't seem to get there by ourselves and MS support is very difficult to find. It does feel as though the app development part is so much simpler than getting it onto the marketplace, which is surely the wrong way round. Thank you, CraigISV Success FAQ: Are their limitations for use of the Azure Sponsorship credits?
Q: Are their limitations for use of the Azure Sponsorship credits (offered as part of ISV Success)? A: Azure Sponsorship must be used within 12 months of joining the ISV Success program. Due to current technical limitations Azure Sponsorship also can not be used on Microsoft Customer Agreements (MCA) or Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) agreements. Azure Sponsorship also can not be used to purchase Reserved Instances (RI) or (Reserved Capacity (RC). Note: this FAQ is relevant to participants in ISV Success. Learn more about ISV Success here.
