Partner Center announcements

Learn about important Partner Center updates. We update this information frequently, so be sure to check back often!

Workspace May 2023 announcements Announced
Marketplace offers Announcing new AI capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit May 24
Leads Archival Policy for Marketplace Leads May 24
APIs SDK release on .NET Standard (v3.4.0) May 24
Marketplace offers Sell your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)-based apps on Azure Marketplace May 18
Account settings New timelines: Important actions to secure the partner ecosystem May 18
APIs Request contract change for Update Customer Qualifications API May 16
Customers View the revamped customer list with new and improved features May 16
General May Cloud solution provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder May 10
Referrals The Referral Leads details page is more responsive and easier to use May 10
General Upcoming: Purchase Azure savings plan for compute in Partner Center May 8
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers in the Global Promo Readiness Guide May 2
General Join the monthly Korean CSP Operations Q&A community calls May 1
Marketplace offers Deal Registration and Manual Processing Deadline Reminder May 1
Marketplace offers Important updates for Azure IP co-sell deals May 1
Customers Reminder - Changes to license assignment - Impact on partners May 1
Customers Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo capabilities add-on SKU coming to CSP May 1
Workspace April 2023 announcements Announced
Billing Microsoft to manage end-customer taxation (GST) for enterprise agreement commercial marketplace sales in Australia April 28
Billing New UI to manage Azure Spending with improved performance coming to New Commerce Experience April 28
Pricing Important changes to Microsoft Cloud and on-premises pricing starting September 2023 April 27
Referrals Improved co-sell experiences for Services partners April 26
Customers New order history states April 26
Referrals Capture your customer's marketplace purchase intent April 21
Account settings Security reminder: Important actions for partners to secure the partner ecosystem April 19
General Windows 365 Frontline public preview and new Forrester research April 14
General April Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder April 13
Pricing Republish of NCE license-based pricing for European markets during April 2023 April 12
Insights Insights for VM image versions of Azure VM and Core VM offers are now available April 12
Customers Total price now visible in order confirmation and cart checkout response April 12
Customers Discontinuation notice: Nonprofit customer change to Microsoft 365 E2 grant April 10
Customers New subscription date time attributes available via partner center APIs May 10, 2023 April 10
Customers CSP customers to be notified of MCA acceptance April 5
Customers Changes to license assignment - Impact on partners April 4
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers April 4
Workspace March 2023 announcements Announced
Insights Enhanced summary dashboard for Marketplace Insights March 30
General Upcoming enhancements to CSP-Hoster program March 30
General Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work March 30
Customers Microsoft Teams Rooms licensing policy enforcement notice March 29
General Now Live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: March 2023 edition March 27
Billing The new commerce reconciliation file download experience is now asynchronous! March 25
APIs SDK Release on .NET Standard (v3.3.0) March 24
Payouts Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) check payment updates March 20
Payouts Export page download compressed folder content organization changes March 17
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers March 17
Referrals Improved co-sell experiences for Services partners March 16
Account settings Security update: Important actions to secure the partner ecosystem March 15
Referrals Customize your grid view in Partner Center March 13
Pricing Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo capabilities add-on price list preview March 10
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers March 7
General Advanced support for partners now includes application consults and developer account planning benefits for ISVs March 7
General Now available: Journey maps to Microsoft's transformational changes March 7
Help + support New secondary deal review upload feature March 1
Customers Now live: Updated Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) coming in March 2023 March 1
Pricing Delay to NCE license-based pricing for European markets March 1
Workspace February 2023 announcements Announced
Pricing Updates to NCE license-based preview price list February 27
Billing Your Azure Spending Notifications are now available if you bought Azure Savings Plans February 27
Grow your business Education Insights Premium will become Education Insights on March 1, 2023 February 27
Marketplace offers New feature to deprecate VM offers and plans on Azure Marketplace February 27
Marketplace offers Marketo connector restoration February 27
Referrals Preview cards for co-sell opportunities are now available February 22
Account settings New timelines and important actions to secure the partner ecosystem February 15
Pricing Price list data update to “Unit of measure” February 15
Pricing Convert new commerce trial to paid subscriptions February 14
General Apply for the 2023 Partner Operational Excellence Award February 14
Billing (Resolved) Partner account balance displays either zero or an incorrect amount in Partner Center February 9
Pricing Microsoft Intune Suite price list preview February 9
General Interested in growing your Microsoft partner business? Join our Webinar! February 8
General February Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders February 8
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers February 8
Customers Partner Center reminder for New Commerce annual subscription renewals February 8
APIs Request contract change for Update Customer Qualifications API February 6
Referrals Partner Referrals Business Profile Creation flow February 6
Pricing Software IN (India) February price list updated February 3
Billing Azure spending notifications are temporarily unavailable if you bought Azure Savings Plans February 1
General New Teams Premium is now available February 1
General Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA) updates are coming February 1
Pricing Introducing the Microsoft 365 E3 Do More with Less (DMWL) promo for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers February 1
Workspace January 2023 announcements Announced
Pricing Promotions page to be retired from Partner Center January 31
General Microsoft Archive in GitHub will soon store .NET SDK as a project January 30
General February 2023 Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Fundamentals sessions January 30
General Now Live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: January 2023 January 26
Pricing Update: SQL Server 2022 SKU updates coming February 1, 2023 January 26
Customers Updated Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) coming in March 2023 January 25
Referrals Customer insights for marketplace leads January 19
General Now live: Updated deal details experience in Partner Center January 17
Account Settings New timelines: Important actions partners must take to secure the partner ecosystem January 12
Insights Introducing Downloads hub in the Partner Center Insights workspace January 12
General January Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders January 11
Help + Support Update: Partner support can now use Teams for meeting appointments January 11
General Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available January 10
Pricing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Bridge to the Cloud 2 NCE promotion January 10
General Holistic Business Case (HBC) assessment now available as partner-led option January 10
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers January 6
Pricing SQL Server 2022 CSP availability and price list changes January 6
Membership Introducing the new Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization January 5
Pricing Important licensing changes to Microsoft Commercial Business in the European Union (EU), Norway, and UK January 5
Benefits Changes to CSP partner benefits for Azure reservations now implemented January 4
Customers Enhancements to Partner Center new commerce migrations January 4
Workspace December 2022 announcements Announced
Customers Now available: Cancel an Azure subscription by API December 16
Marketplace offers Update: Fix for Marketo connector for Marketplace leads expected in February, 2023 December 16
Incentives Removal of legacy Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) seat-based offer partner incentives on December 31 December 15
Referrals Enhancements to Deal Details page in Referrals make it more powerful and easier to use December 14
Account settings Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem December 14
Marketplace offers Improved customer notes in Marketplace "Contact Me" leads December 12
Referrals Grid view for deal management in co-sell opportunities has reached general availability December 9
General December Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders December 7
Billing Singapore goods and services tax (GST) rate change to be implemented on January 1, 2023 December 7
Incentives Important changes to CSP partner benefits for Azure reservations December 2
Billing Some partners seeing a discrepancy in their daily partner earned credit (PEC) reporting (resolved) December 2
Pricing Important licensing changes to the Microsoft India Commercial December 1
Workspace November 2022 announcements Announced
General Open-source Partner Center .NET SDK coming soon November 28
Customers SQL Server 2022 availability & price list changes: Information for CSP partners November 24
Customers Now live for CSP partners: Customer management with tags November 23
General Some partners seeing a discrepancy in their daily partner earned credit (PEC) reporting November 23
APIs SDK Release on .NET Standard (v3.2.0) November 23
Customers For CSP partners: Enhancements to Azure plan subscription management November 22
Pricing For CSP partners: SQL Server 2022 availability and price list changes November 21
Pricing Price list changes for CSP SQL Server Standard and Enterprise subscriptions November 21
General Now Live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: November 2022 edition November 16
General SQL Server 2022 launch and pricing November 16
Benefits Now live: Public preview of the ISV Success program November 15
Account settings Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem November 15
Marketplace offers Marketo connector for Marketplace leads isn't working—use workaround November 15
Billing Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) technical training series November 14
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers November 14
General Discount Transparency Disclosure Form (DTDF) for Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EAS) November 14
General Microsoft 365 SMB New Customer and Upsell, and Dynamics 365 New Customer promos expansion November 14
APIs Partners can now schedule migration to new commerce November 11
Billing New (beta) API for quickly and asynchronously retrieving unbilled usage data November 10
General November Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders November 10
Referrals Co-sell with Microsoft community Q&A call for Q2 of fiscal year 2023 (FY23) November 10
Billing Changing the new commerce reconciliation file download method (synchronous to asynchronous) November 9
General New commerce experience for CSP: Journey map now available November 9
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers November 8
Membership Upcoming Office Hours for the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program November 7
Benefits Reminder: Changes to CSP partner benefits for Azure reservations in 2023 November 7
Customers Now live: Improved subscription lists for Cloud Solutions Providers (CSPs) in Partner Center November 4
Action Center Now live: Bulk operations for Azure IP co-sell deal registrations November 3
Billing Office Hours: Changes to Singapore GST rate November 3
Action Center Now live: Improved customer account matching for inbound referrals November 3
Incentives Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) communication November 2
Billing Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) technical training series November 2
Pricing Microsoft Korea to revise corporate licenses and services prices November 1
Pricing Microsoft Japan to revise corporate licenses and services prices November 1
Payouts Partners can now understand their incentives ineligibility for all engagements under Microsoft Commerce Incentives November 1
Workspace October 2022 announcements Announced
APIs Partners can now schedule migration to new commerce in their sandbox environment October 27
Customers New disabled state for new commerce license-based subscriptions October 26
APIs New (beta) API for quickly and asynchronously retrieving billed usage data October 20
Insights Now live: Partner cohort analysis in referrals insights October 20
General Now live: Azure savings plan for compute October 18
Billing Change in value-added tax (VAT) for Russian businesses billed by international organizations October 14
Account settings New timelines: Securing the partner ecosystem by transitioning to GDAP October 13
General October Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders October 12
Pricing Software price list now supports multiple European currencies October 11
General Partner earned credit (PEC) not appearing on Azure subscription invoices October 11
Billing Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) technical training in October October 11
Pricing Singapore goods and services tax (GST) rate change to be implemented on January 1, 2023 October 11
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers October 10
Incentives Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) communication October 10
Customers Introducing the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform promotion for new Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers October 6
General Windows 365 for US Government general availability (GA) from October 1 October 4
General Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Feature Release October 2022 October 4
General MPNID is now PartnerID October 3
Pricing New commerce license-based services price list for October 2022 includes a commercial product SKU that's not purchasable yet October 3
Customers Strengthen cybersecurity with a free subscription to Azure AD Premium Plan 2 October 3
Customers Now live: Changes to Microsoft's hoster licensing and products October 3
Billing Reminder: Removal of check payment instructions from NCE invoices October 3
Workspace September 2022 announcements Announced
Pricing New commerce license-based services price list for October 2022 includes a commercial product SKU that's not purchasable yet September 30
Customers Reminder: Save on Azure compute services through the CSP program September 28
Benefits Changes to CSP partner benefits for Azure reservations in 2023 September 22
Account settings New API requirements for partner attestation starting November 7, 2022 September 21
Account settings Azure Security best practices September 20
Customers Introducing the new Microsoft eCDN SKU September 19
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers September 16
Customers Windows 365 15 percent post-event promo September 15
General Reconciliation data model changes available in sandbox on September 15 September 14
General Cloud Solution Providers (CSP) Fundamentals: CSP and new commerce experience (NCE) overview September 13
Account settings Extended timelines: Securing the partner ecosystem by transitioning to GDAP September 12
Customers Live: customTermEndDate can now be configured for NCE migration September 12
Referrals Live: New grid view in the Partner Center Referrals workspace September 9
General Monthly updates to the Partner Center Referrals workspace UI September 7
General September Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders September 7
General Microsoft Publisher Agreement version 8.0 – October 2022 update September 7
Pricing New Teams Rooms licensing is here September 7
Customers New ways to save on Azure compute services through the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) program coming soon September 6
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers September 6
Pricing Microsoft 365 Nonprofit Pricing and Audio-Conferencing Licensing Updates September 1
Customers Introducing the Microsoft 365 SMB and New Customer Upsell Promotion for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Customers September 1
Pricing October 1 Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) software subscription offer and price list changes September 1
Referrals Email notifications for marketplace leads in Partner Center September 1
Billing Removal of check payment instructions from new commerce invoices in the US (including Puerto Rico) and Canada September 1
Workspace August 2022 announcements Announced
Action Center Email subscription preferences are live at Action center August 30
Pricing Upcoming changes to Microsoft's hosting licensing and products August 29
Referrals Microsoft Kaizala retirement announcement August 26
Benefits Updates to benefits for Solutions Partner designations ahead of general availability on October 3, 2022 August 25
Marketplace offers Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro free trials available on September 1, 2022 August 23
Pricing Correction: Microsoft Teams with Calling Plan pricing in legacy CSP Aug 22
General Canceled updates to the Online Services and Software Channel Authorization Guide August 16
Billing Registration required: Instruction of Transaction Tax Terms and Conditions (TTTC)—US partners only August 12
APIs SDK Release on .NET Standard (v3.1.2) August 11
Referrals Co-sell with Microsoft community Q&A call for Q1 of fiscal year 2023 (FY23) August 10
General August Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders August 10
Account settings Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem August 8
Pricing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Servers removal from price list August 3
Referrals Contact validation now available for Marketplace leads in Partner August 3
Marketplace offers Now live: Long-term pricing for marketplace SaaS offers August 2
Workspace July 2022 announcements Announced
APIs SDK Release on .NET Standard (v3.1.1) July 28
General Transition to Microsoft 365 Defender portal to be completed in July 2022 July 25
Referrals New criteria for the Top Tier of Azure IP co-sell July 20
General August 2022 update: Online Services and Software Channel Authorization guide July 20
APIs SDK Release on .NET Standard (v3.1.0) July 19
Account settings Changing term of subscriptions with promotions is now supported July 18
Account settings Timeline update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem July 18
Customers Reminder: Change to July 11 blocking of legacy CSP renewals July 14
General July Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) self-serve community update and reminders July 13
Referrals Exception process for deal registrations available in Partner Center June 12
Customers Change to CSP new commerce software subscriptions cancellation policy July 11
General Readiness: Enabling a new secondary deal review upload feature July 6
Pricing Correction regarding Viva Goals price list preview July 6
Customers Introducing Windows 365 Enterprise promotion for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers July 1
General NCE for CSP seat-based offers operating guide retirement July 1
Workspace June 2022 announcements Announced
Membership Upcoming training session for the Microsoft cloud partner program and Q&A June 30
Account settings Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem June 30
Customers Licensing updates for Teams Phone with Calling Plan June 29
Customers Change to July 11 blocking of legacy CSP renewals June 28
General Introducing the new Teams Rooms SMB partner playbook June 27
Pricing Enhancements to scheduled change feature now available for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) new commerce seat-based subscriptions June 20
APIs Backward compatibility of including marketplace offers on OnlineServices targetView within GetProducts API to end on July 7 June 20
Pricing View the latest promotions and offers June 14
Customers Reminder: Upcoming change to CSP new commerce subscription cancellation policy June 10
Customers Solution Workspace no longer available from September 1, 2022 June 9
Customers Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal June 9
General June Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) community update and reminders June 8
Referrals Leads for Office plugins are now available in Partner Center June 8
Incentives Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) communication June 8
Referrals Auto-approvals for Microsoft commercial marketplace deal registrations now available in Partner Center June 3
General Upcoming retirement of NCE for CSP seat-based offers operating guide June 3
Pricing View this month's product launches and offers June 1
Referrals IP co-sell deal registration deadline June 1
Referrals Improved customer account matching process now live in Partner Center June 1