Microsoft Modern Work News
Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update:
Important capabilities, offers, and updates have been introduced to improve the way partners can further differentiate their deep technical expertise across a set of priority scenarios with high customer demand.
- Date: June 28, 2024
- Workspace: Membership
- Impacted audience: Partners enrolled in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Available now:
- Solutions Partner* with certified software** designation now generally available – Apply today and get a 50% subsidy for the audit process for a limited time.
- Infrastructure and Migration specialisation audit update for renewing partners
Whats coming:
- Business Central certification in skilling for Business Applications partner capability score
- Azure bulk credits modernization
- Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization
- Business Intelligence specialization
Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem
Important capabilities and updates to improve your security posture and protect your customers’ tenants are now available.
- Date: June 17, 2024
- Workspace: General
- Impacted audience: Direct bill partners, indirect providers, and indirect resellers transacting through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and with advisors.
Last November, we announced our Secure Future Initiative (SFI), which brought every part of Microsoft together to combat the increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks and advance cybersecurity protection across new products and legacy infrastructures. For more detailed information, read Charlie Bell’s recent blog post. “We’re making security our top priority at Microsoft, above all else – over all other features” and as a result, we’re implementing immediate and future changes that have the potential to affect some of our partners, and in some instances with little notice. In the next few days and months, we’ll send notifications that might require you to act quickly to help close security vulnerabilities.
Available now:
- Security workspace in Partner Center: Your company’s Admin Agent is able to access the Security workspace in Partner Center. This workspace helps partners evaluate their security situation and take the required actions to enhance their security posture. The workspace makes the user experience easier, provide learning resources, and serve as a single place for all security-related matters in Partner Center.
- View expired global delegated access permissions (GDAPs) in “Expiring Granular Relationships” page: Partners can now view the details of GDAPs that expired over the past year in the Expiring Granular Relationships page and can create new GDAP relationships with the customer if necessary.
Expanded availability for Copilot for Microsoft 365
Microsoft continues to invest in expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability to reach more customers. We have extended eligibility for customers with standalone plans to purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365.
- Date: June 24, 2024
- Workspace: Membership
- Impacted audience: All Partners transacting Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365
Whats new
As of June 12, the following standalone commercial plans are added to the existing qualifying prerequisites for Copilot for Microsoft 365:
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Business
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
- Microsoft Teams Essentials
- Microsoft Teams Enterprise
- Microsoft Teams EEA (European Economic Area)
- Exchange Kiosk
- Exchange Plan 1
- Exchange Plan 2
- SharePoint Plan 1
- SharePoint Plan 2
- OneDrive for Business Plan 1
- OneDrive for Business Plan 2
- Microsoft Planner Plan 1 (formerly Project Plan 1)
- Microsoft Project Plan 3
- Microsoft Project Plan 5
- Project Online Essentials
- Visio Plan 1
- Visio Plan 2
- Microsoft ClipChamp
New subscription purchases for Public Sector products must be on new commerce
As previously announced, starting August 1, 2024, new subscription purchases for Public Sector product offers must be on new commerce. The following 20 offers will show up as deprecated (DEPR) on the August 1 price list. However, they’ll continue to show as purchasable in Partner Center and Offer List Matrix. The system will block these offers from purchase in mid-August.
- Date: August 1, 2024
- Workspace: Pricing
- Impacted audience: Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners (indirect providers and direct bill) in all markets/countries/regions transacting Public Sector
An updated offer list matrix will be republished as soon as the system enforcement is effective.
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