Microsoft Modern Work News
Microsoft 365 E5 15% Off Accelerate Annual Promo through December 31, 2025
Launched January 1, 2025, the Microsoft 365 E5 15% Off promotion helped drive upsell conversation with new-to-M365 E5 customers. To help our CSP Partners continue building momentum, we’ve extended this promotion through December 31, 2025 to provide powerful, best-in-class cloud productivity solutions with advanced security and compliance capabilities.
New Targeted Microsoft 365 E3 Annual CSP Promotion - 20% off
We’re excited to announce the new Targeted Microsoft 365 E3 Annual CSP Promotion available starting October 13, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
This new limited-time targeted promotion will provide 20% off the net partner price of Microsoft 365 E3 for eligible customers with at least 500 base licenses of O365/M365, 20% off Microsoft 365 E3 annual subscriptions with a minimum purchase of 250+ licenses.
Announcing New Targeted Microsoft 365 E3 Annual CSP Promotion - 20% off
We’re excited to announce the new Targeted Microsoft 365 E3 Annual CSP Promotion available starting October 13, 2025 through December 31, 2025. This new limited-time targeted promotion will provide 20% off the net partner price of Microsoft 365 E3 for eligible customers with at least 500 base licenses of O365/M365, 20% off Microsoft 365 E3 annual subscriptions with a minimum purchase of 250+ licenses. This offer is designed to support those ready to scale Microsoft 365 E3 adoption across their organisations, for best-in-class productivity with core security and compliance capabilities.
Customer eligibility
- Select organizations with at least 500 base licenses of O365/M365.
- CSP as primary purchase channel.
- Fewer than 50 preexisting ME3/ME5 user subscriptions or licenses in any channel.
- Partners will be able to download customer eligibility lists through Cloud Ascent on October 25.
Offer details
- Discount: 20% off net partner price of Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E3 (no Teams), and Microsoft 365 E3 European Economic Area (EEA) for eligible customers on annual subscriptions
- Billing Options: Annual commitment with annual or monthly billing
- Availability: Available from October 13, 2025 through December 31, 2025
- Deal Min: 250+ licenses minimum order size
Mandatory multifactor authentication in Partner Center is here
Review the timeline and guidance to ensure your organisation complies with the requirements.
Date: October 1, 2025
Workspace: General
Impacted audience: All partners
To improve the overall security of Partner Center and protect against unauthorised access, we’re finalising mandatory multifactor authentication (MFA) across all Partner Center portal pages and APIs.
- As of August 30, 2025, MFA is required for all pages in the Partner Center portal. This means that every time a partner logs in, they need to provide an additional verification step beyond their username and password.
- By September 30, 2025, all APIs will be MFA-enabled and ready for partner testing. Partners need to integrate MFA into their API calls, ensuring that their systems can handle the additional authentication step.
- Full enforcement of MFA for APIs will begin on April 1, 2026, meaning that any API calls made without MFA will be blocked. This requires partners to update their systems to comply with the new security requirements.
Partners need to plan and allocate resources to update their systems and ensure compliance with the new MFA requirements.
Microsoft renaming its Microsoft 365 E5 mini-suites
Beginning on October 1, 2025, Microsoft will be renaming its Microsoft 365 E5 mini-suites.
Date: October 1, 2025
Workspace: General
Impacted audience: All partners
Beginning on October 1, 2025, Microsoft will be renaming its Microsoft 365 E5 mini-suites. Microsoft 365 E5 Security becomes the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance becomes the Microsoft Purview Suite.
These suites allow organisations to effectively handle external cyber threats and internal data risks through a single, integrated solution.
Microsoft Defender Suite
Entra ID P2: Risk-based conditional access, visibility into risky sign-ins and user behavior anomalies. ID Governance and Privileged Identity Mgmt.
Defender for Identity: A cloud-based identity security solution that uses your on-premises Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed at your organisation.
- MDO P2: Advanced email and collaboration security with automated investigation and response, and end user phishing simulation trainings.
- MDE P2: Endpoint security and EDR with advanced threat hunting, and access to threat experts for more investigations.
Defender for Cloud Apps
SaaS security solution to automatically discover and block apps based on risk level, unusual user activity, or data-sharing behavior to protect against sophisticated SaaS-based attacks.
Microsoft Purview Suite
Automatically discover, classify and label sensitive data, and prevent its unauthorised use across apps, services, and devices with integrated Information Protection and DLP.
Understand user intent around use of sensitive data and defend against insider risks with Insider Risk Management and Adaptive Protection to automatically adapt policies based on risk level.
Protect Microsoft 365 Copilot data from accidental oversharing, data leaks, or noncompliance usage.
Drive adherence to common industry and regional regulations (for example EU AI Act, ISO, etc.) with prebuilt templates in Compliance Manager.
Streamline your response to events and investigations with Audit retention policies and Audit insights and drive investigation efficiencies with eDiscovery workflows and analytics.