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Partner Center announcements

Learn about important Partner Center updates. Microsoft continuously reviews the policies and capabilities of all programs. Check back often to find news about feature releases, policy changes, and more.

Workspace December 2024 announcements Announced
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem December 16
Billing, APIs Reminder: Migrate to enhanced CSP billing reconciliation APIs by January 21, 2025 December 16
General Microsoft 365 Copilot CSP Getting Started 15%-off promo extension December 16
General Now live: Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: December 2024 edition December 12
General Australian Taxation Office reporting feature December 12
Membership Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update December 11
General December Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder December 10
Pricing Local currency price adjustments for Microsoft's commercial cloud December 3
General Price values are now visible in the Partner Center checkout experience December 2
General Flexible billing for Microsoft 365 Copilot now available December 2
Workspace November 2024 announcements Announced
Referrals Manage joint planning leads received from Microsoft sellers November 26
General A Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program Guide update is now available November 21
General Get Licensing Ready is retiring November 20
General Fundraising and Engagement SKU dependency removed for Volunteer Engagement and Volunteer Management November 20
General Update Fundraising and Engagement Azure Services to .NET 8 November 20
General SPARK Propensity data for FY25 Solution Plays is now available November 19
General Microsoft Places is now generally available November 19
General Flexible billing for Microsoft 365 Copilot; pricing updates for annual subscriptions and Teams Phone November 12
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem November 11
Membership Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other offerings and benefits November 8
General Updates related to technical enforcement of EOS for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise Suites with Teams in CSP November 8
General November Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder November 5
APIs, Customers Lifecycle state values can now be returned by Partner Center availabilities APIs November 5
Billing Upcoming change to autofit ratios for Azure M-series VMs November 1
APIs More intuitive error messages for SaaS Fulfillment APIs v2 coming on November 8, 2024 November 1
General A 15% discount for eligible nonprofit customers on Microsoft 365 Copilot takes effect November 1 November 1
Workspace October 2024 announcements Announced
Pricing November price list won't include a December preview for NCE license-based services October 31
Pricing New software launches - November: Latest versions October 31
General Update - What's new in System Center 2025 and updated product pricing October 30
General Microsoft Places will be generally available by the end of 2024 October 25
Pricing October license-based price lists republished to correct price errors for Microsoft 365 E5 SKUs October 17
General HP Anyware for Windows 365 now generally available October 14
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem October 14
General Partner Center AI assistant (preview) is now available in the English version of Partner Center October 10
Pricing October software price list republished to include additional Extended Security Update SKUs October 8
General October Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder October 8
General Self-service purchase options available for Microsoft 365 Copilot October 7
Customers New activity log and webhook events are now available in Partner Center Sandbox October 7
Pricing Software Price lists republished to reflect correct pricing for Japan exclusive SKUs October 3
Marketplace offers Transactable Professional Services now generally available October 3
General What's new in System Center 2025 and updated product pricing October 2
Marketplace offers Store service fee discount for renewals October 1
Workspace September 2024 announcements Announced
General New Australian Taxation Office reporting requirements September 30
Billing, APIs Updated timeline: Enhanced CSP billing reconciliation APIs migration extended to January 21, 2025 September 30
Customers Launching Office LTSC 2024 for general availability on October 1, 2024 September 30
General Now live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: September 2024 edition September 26
General Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem September 23
General Updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot and rebrand of consumer Copilot offerings to Microsoft 365 Copilot September 19
Membership Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other offerings and benefits September 17
Billing Improvements to the Azure credit offer (ACO) balance report September 17
General Release of hot fix for Fundraising and Engagement solution September 12
General September Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder September 10
General Self-service purchase feature to come for Copilot customers September 9
General Three-year Microsoft 365 E3 subscriptions now available in CSP in select markets September 2
General Office 365 E1 Plus now available in CSP in select markets September 2
General 15% off Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription CSP promotion available worldwide September 2
Workspace August 2024 announcements Announced
Pricing Reminder: new commerce Public Sector Microsoft led migration timeline August 30
General Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem August 28
Pricing UPDATE: Technical enforcement of End of Sale for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise Suites with Teams in CSP will begin on October 1 for regions outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) & Switzerland August 28
General Commercial marketplace certification policy update - 1000.6 Landing page for Software as a Service offers August 26
Referrals Partners can now see Microsoft seller contact details in Co-sell opportunities (outbound/inbound) August 20
Billing, APIs Migrate to enhanced CSP billing reconciliation APIs by September 30, 2024 August 19
Customers Partner to partner transfer webhooks now available August 16
Billing Billing history page: upcoming changes August 14
General Reminder: Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Education Student 18+) now available August 13
General August Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder August 7
Membership Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update August 6
Pricing New subscription purchases for Public Sector products must be on new commerce August 1
Workspace July 2024 announcements Announced
General Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem July 30
Customers Refreshed user experience for managing customer subscriptions July 26
Marketplace Offers Expanding multiparty private offer (MPO) to the United Kingdom and Canada markets July 18
Billing Invoice collection API: upcoming changes July 18
General Fundraising and Engagement solution retiring on December 31, 2026 July 15
General July Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder July 10
General Introducing GitHub Enterprise (GHE) and GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) metered service offerings July 9
General Microsoft Provisioned Throughput (PTU) for Microsoft Azure OpenAI will be generally available through CSP in Microsoft's fiscal year 2025 Q1 July 5
General Microsoft Publisher Agreement version 8.0 - July 2024 update July 1
Pricing Consistent global pricing for Microsoft's Commercial Cloud and on-premises Software July 1
Workspace June 2024 announcements Announced
General What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program offerings and benefits June 28
General Expanded availability for Copilot for Microsoft 365 June 24
General Now live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: June 2024 edition June 18
General Migrate to Enhanced CSP Billing Reconciliation APIs by September 30, 2024 June 18
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem June 17
General Upcoming CSP price list improvements for license-based services June 17
Customers Introducing Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner-to-partner (P2P) subscription transfers for new commerce experience (NCE) license-based subscriptions June 13
General June Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder June 12
General Viva Glint will be generally available through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) on July 1, 2024 June 1
General Launching Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for SQL Server 2014 June 1
Workspace May 2024 announcements Announced
Membership Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other offerings and benefits May 31
Pricing May 2024 legacy Azure RI price list republished to remove retired reservation SKUs May 27
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem May 17
General May Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder May 8
Insights Enhanced revenue dashboard and reporting is now available for commercial marketplace partners May 7
Pricing Incentives users can create support ticket from the Earnings workspace May 6
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers May 6
Incentives Improved user experience for co-op management pages under Incentives in Partner Center May 6
Pricing May 2024 new commerce license-based price list republished to correct a column name May 2
Pricing Launching Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for SQL Server 2014 May 1
Workspace April 2024 announcements Announced
General Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Education Student 18+) to be available on May 1, 2024 April 30
General Important announcement regarding new method for reporting security incidents April 30
Pricing Reminder: Legacy Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances price list change effective June 1, 2024 April 24
Pricing Important update to the new commerce Public Sector migration timeline April 22
General Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for expanded Office 365, Frontline, and Microsoft 365 Business Basic SKUs April 22
Pricing Azure Legacy April price lists are republished to reflect announced Japan FX rate changes April 19
Pricing Update to Dynamics 365 commercial pricing effective on October 1, 2024 April 12
Pricing Republished April legacy CSP price list and price list preview with price corrections to Microsoft Sustainability Manager offers April 10
General April Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder April 9
Billing Azure billing meters: Upcoming changes April 8
Customers Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) offer retirement guide update April 2024 April 4
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers April 2
General March Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other offerings and benefits April 2
Pricing Launch of new Government Community Cloud (GCC) offers on Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) new commerce, nonprofit month-to-month (M2M) promotion, and license-based price list errors identified April 1
General Important notice: Changes to Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams licensing: Worldwide expansion of approach taken in the European Economic Area and Switzerland April 1
Workspace March 2024 announcements Announced
Referrals Services co-sell: Bulk upload functionality now available March 26
General Now live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: March 2024 edition March 20
Referrals Co-sell for partners providing services: Increase discoverability with a strong business profile March 18
Pricing New commerce license-based price list and offer list matrix have been republished as of March 14 March 15
Customers Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) new commerce migration paths recently enabled March 14
General Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem March 14
General Expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 to customers with Microsoft 365 F1 and F3, Office 365 E1, Microsoft 365 Business Basic, and more March 14
Billing, APIs V1 version of new commerce billed invoice line item API will retire soon March 7
Billing, APIs Asynchronous billed invoice reconciliation APIs generally available March 7
General March Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder March 5
Customers CSP offer retirement guide update schedule March 5
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers March 4
Pricing New Commerce public sector product SKUs are now available to CSPs in Partner Center March 1
Pricing Delay on nonprofit promotions for the new commerce license-based offers for Public Sector month-by-month (M2M) offers March 1
Partners Expanded licensing for SPLA partners with RDS SALs March 1
Workspace February 2024 announcements Announced
Pricing March legacy license-based price list & price list preview with updated DEPR prices for some currencies (EUR, GBP, DKK, SEK & NOK) February 29
Pricing NCE license-based preview price list displays false positives in countries/regions where there are no FX changes February 29
General Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service available through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) on March 1, 2024. Copilot for Microsoft 365 available for EDU customers through CSPs February 29
Pricing Legacy Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances price list change effective June 1, 2024 February 27
Earnings Removal of Customer emails from Earnings reports February 26
General Microsoft Azure Information Protection Plan 1 end of sale February 23
Pricing Update on March 1 CSP price list preview February 22
Referrals Upcoming changes to Referrals APIs February 20
General Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem February 15
Billing, APIs V1 and V2 beta versions of new commerce daily rated usage reconciliation APIs retire soon! February 14
Insights, APIs Update to the process for generating API tokens to access Commercial Marketplace Insights reports February 7
General February Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder February 7
General Toll-free numbers for Microsoft Teams now supported on NCE February 7
APIs Asynchronous APIs for retrieving billed and unbilled daily rated usage data is now generally available February 2
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers February 1
APIs Introducing end of sale with conversions February 1
Workspace January 2024 announcements Announced
Pricing Reminder: End of sale for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 (w/Teams) suites in European Economic Area (EEA) January 29
Billing Upcoming improvements to the invoice-ready notification template January 25
Billing "Billing overview (NCE)" will soon be the default landing page in the Billing workspace January 24
General Monthly update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and Microsoft AI Cloud and Partner program offerings and benefits January 24
General Update: Changes to the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program January 23
Insights Now Live: Programmatic Access Version 1.1 now available for Commercial Marketplace Insights reports January 22
Pricing Republishing the January NCE price list to include the Copilot SKU January 17
General Copilot for Microsoft 365 now generally available through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) January 15
Earnings Important capabilities and updates to improve your security posture and protect your customers' tenants are now available January 15
Earnings Earnings, Revenue, and Reports pages have some updates to enhance reconciliation January 10
Pricing Republish of February legacy license-based price list preview with updated deprecated prices for some currencies (INR, KRW, NOK, SEK, and TWD) January 9
General January Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder January 9
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers January 5
Pricing January NCE price list preview will erroneously show Triennial Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 and Office 365 E3 SKUs January 1
Payouts Increase of margins for Windows 365 Business, Enterprise, and Frontline January 1