Advanced Support for Partners Newsletter 20210812
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August 2021 |
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Technical Trainings & Webinars
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Regional News and Events
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Check out Microsoft Inspire 2021 Book of News!
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Certification Week for Partners Augus 23-27, 2021 is Certification Week for Partners. This free (yes free!) training event is for partners who demonstrate their skills on the job every day and are ready to take the next step toward validating their expertise with a Microsoft certification. There are twelve tracks available for partners to sign up for. Though partners can only register for one track, they may attend sessions across all.
Windows 365 now available for purchase
Microsoft is excited to announce that Windows 365 is now available for customers to purchase. Windows 365 is a cloud service that delivers a new way to experience Windows 10 or Windows 11, streaming your personalized apps, settings, and content from the Microsoft cloud to any device. Changes to Azure offer availability related to the new commerce experience in CSP for Azure In January, we informed partners about upcoming changes to the previous Azure offer availability in the CSP program. See also January 2021 announcements for the January announcement details. We announced that there will be three phases of change to the previous Azure offer, and we’ll inform partners six months in advance before the start date of each of these three phases. As announced in January, the start date for phase 1 was July 21, 2021. We’re also announcing that the start date of phase 2 will be February 1, 2022.
Enhancement of tool for transfer of Azure subscriptions between partners in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP Program)
Starting July 21, 2021, the existing Azure subscription transition tool was enhanced so that a customer’s previous Azure offer in CSP subscriptions can transfer between partners while transitioning those subscriptions to the new Azure offer plan. The tool and process that partners need to take will remain the same as the partner-to-partner new Azure offer plan transfers. Find detailed information in the partner guide.
New commerce experience in CSP for Azure expanding to Government Community Cloud (GCC)
Starting August 24, 2021, we’re excited to announce the availability of the new commerce experience in CSP for Azure to all GCC partners. This experience will streamline and improve the way customers buy and consume Azure services. It will also give partners in the CSP program a consistent view of Azure pricing across sales motions, US dollar pricing for global consistency, billing date alignment, and access to Azure Cost Management. We also have a functionality on Partner Center that helps CSP partners move customers from existing CSP Azure offers to Azure services under the Azure plan.
Programmatic access to Partner Insights analytics data
Partners in Partner Center Insights can have access to the data either through the user interface or through the downloadable reports. With programmatic access, partners will have the flexibility to consume the data using existing tools and prepare a custom dashboard for users or employees within the organization.
New Software offers available in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and changes to Open License program
As we draw closer to December 31, 2021, which is the last day to transact Open License program offers this month, Microsoft is pleased to release a series of new software offers in the CSP program, enhancing the reach of these hybrid products beyond commercial segments.
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Accelerate your Azure Migration and modernization journey with expanded programs and offers
In the past year, organizations increasingly turned to the cloud to survive potential business disruptions. At Microsoft, we partnered with businesses of all sizes, to help them take advantage of the scalability, remote work enablement, and cost efficiencies of migrating to the cloud. At Microsoft Inspire, we announced new and expanded programs, offers, and product investments—helping customers to accelerate their migration and modernization journey with Azure.
Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse enables Zero trust
Recent incidents from ransomware to supply chain compromises have shown both the interconnectedness of our digital world and the critical need to secure these digital assets from attackers, criminals, and other hostile third parties. To achieve this, our customers need Zero Trust security and least privilege access for users and resources. Today we are very excited to announce the latest iteration in our journey towards Zero Trust and least privilege access: The preview of Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management (Azure AD PIM) integration with Azure Lighthouse.
Optimize your cloud spend with Azure
At Microsoft, we know our customers are looking to transform digitally now more than ever and the speed of innovation can make the difference between growth or decline. While presenting new opportunities, we hear repeatedly from our customers and partners that the challenges created by digital transformation are unique. Customers are looking for better ways to balance the pace of innovation with the need for agility while managing costs, maintaining control, and meeting increasingly rigorous standards around security and compliance. Today, we discuss how we are creating a consistent, simplified cost and pricing experience for our customers, with greater flexibility, transparency, and forecasting accuracy.
Drive growth with the most partner-focused business platform
The Microsoft Cloud opportunity is stronger than ever with over 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies using Azure, over 145 million daily active users on Microsoft Teams, and over 250,000 organizations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to run and transform their businesses—partners are realizing limitless potential. And partners are critical to helping businesses in every industry respond and adapt to the challenges of the world today. Microsoft relies on the deep expertise of our partners to develop the solutions our customers need most, and it is our top priority to provide the platform, tools, and resources our partners need to be successful with the Microsoft Cloud.
Enhance your cloud skills and accelerate digital transformation with Inside Azure for IT Over the last year, we’ve seen accelerated cloud adoption and digital transformation across every industry—all aimed at optimizing business operations, saving money, and enhancing customer experiences. As organizations continue to transform, IT will continue to be in a position of leadership—with a vision of what’s possible. Your responsibilities as IT professionals will continue to grow and keeping your cloud skills up to date is critical to fuel your innovation and success. Today, we’re introducing Inside Azure for IT, a new online technical skilling program with resources designed for cloud professionals of all skill levels.
Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability transparency
The existing Azure resource health feature helps you to diagnose and get support for service problems that affect your Azure resources. It reports on the current and past health of your resources, showing any time ranges that each of your resources have been unavailable. But we know that our customers and partners are particularly interested in “the why” to understand what caused the underlying technical issue, and in improving how they can receive communications about any issues—to feed into monitoring processes, to explain hiccups to other stakeholders, and ultimately to inform business decisions.
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Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Same-zone high availability in public preview
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server gives you the ability to choose your high availability server zone location. The same-zone high availability feature can place your standby server in the same zone as the primary server to reduce replication lag between primary and standby. This also allows lower latencies between the application server and database server if placed in the same Azure zone.
Public preview of Azure Database – Flexible Server now available in new regions
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server public preview is now available in the West US and Germany West Central regions. Now you can enjoy a simplified provisioning experience in these regions with experience such as:
Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
With the integration of private DNS zone configuration within Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you can easily establish connectivity between two Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Servers or from customer applications using a flexible server name (fully qualified domain name) within locally and globally peered virtual networks. While creating a new Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in a virtual network, you can also use an existing private DNS zone or create a new one. This allows you to leverage existing secure Azure infrastructure to connect to an Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL versions 13.3 and 12.7 in public preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now supports the latest PostgreSQL minor versions 13.3 and 12.7 in preview. These PostgreSQL versions deliver various bug fixes and security updates. Please note that your servers will be automatically updated to these new minor versions as a part of regular maintenance. For more information about scheduled maintenance for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) and how to configure scheduling settings for your server group.
Public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server can now help you save money by prepaying for compute resources compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. With Azure Database for PostgreSQL reserved capacity, you can make an upfront commitment on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server for a one- or three-year period to receive a significant discount on compute costs. To purchase Azure Database for PostgreSQL reserved capacity, you simply need to specify the Azure region, deployment type, performance tier, and term.
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2021 Release Wave 2 Mid-July was published the 2021 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that are planned to be released between October 2021 and March 2022. This second release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements, demonstrating our continued investment to power digital transformation for our customers and partners.
Power Apps Pricing & Licensing The following Power Apps licensing changes will go into effect on October 1, 2021:
In the interim prior to October 1, availability of the Power Apps limited time, promotional offers are being extended. Lastly, we also recently made Power Apps portals login capacity available at a reduced price for eligible customers purchasing large volumes of sessions Beginning July and running through September 30, eligible customers interested in taking advantage of reduced pricing can select from these promotional offers: The Power Apps per user and per app plans are currently available for $12 per user/month (minimum purchase of 5,000 licenses) and $3 per user/app/month (minimum purchase of 200 licenses), respectively. Offer availability and other conditions may apply.
Dynamics 365 & Teams One of the announcements during Microsoft Inspire was regarding the flow of work in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Dynamics 365. With Dynamics 365 and Teams, we’re speeding up the flow of work, enabling anyone in an organization to view and collaborate on Dynamics 365 records, from within the flow of work with Teams—at no additional cost. No other technology vendor enables organizations to activate this capability without the need to pay for multiple underlying software licenses.
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Microsoft and our partners have been investing in technologies across every industry and region to help companies face new and shifting market conditions. The rapid pace of this transformation has the potential to change the world for the better. In February, we announced a selection of industry-specific cloud offerings to bring together capabilities that customers and partners need as a foundation for further innovation. These industry clouds are an aggregation of our solution areas represented as vertical expressions of the Microsoft cloud. At Inspire was announced a new cloud offering in preview that will address an issue at the top of every customer’s priority list right now. Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is designed to help companies measure, understand, and take charge of their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals and take measurable action.
Microsoft Partner Network Competencies Update Over the past year, many businesses and organizations around the globe have accelerated their digital transformation plans and Microsoft partners have been at the forefront, helping them by delivering innovative solutions through services, apps, and devices. Partner Contribution Indicators (PCI) scoring took effect on April 1, 2021. If your anniversary date for the Cloud Business Applications competency is between July 1 and December 31, 2021, you will be granted the 15 points for the Functional Consultant Growth metric, and this update will be reflected in the July reporting refresh in Partner Center. You will need to meet the remaining requirements as published in Partner Center and pay the competency fee to complete your renewal. Learn more about Partner Contribution Indicators. For partners with a competency anniversary date between July 1 and December 21, 2021, information to extend your competency will start to appear in Partner Center today. It will take a few days to rollout to all partners and should be completed by July 27, 2021. At that time, if you are unable to renew in Partner Center, please contact partner support for assistance.
Microsoft acquires Suplari
Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Suplari, a leading provider of supplier spend insights that enable companies to proactively manage supplier spend by transforming data from multiple sources, such as contracts, purchase orders, invoices, expenses, and supplier risk, into valuable insight. By bringing Suplari’s spend intelligence insights together with the existing Microsoft Dynamics 365 capabilities, Microsoft is further helping organizations become insight-driven and enabling business leaders to take strategic action.
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Modern Work and Security |
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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is now in public preview
Today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, available to managed service provider (MSP) partners in worldwide geographies serving small and medium-sized businesses that are using Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Let’s look at how Microsoft 365 Lighthouse can help you to scale the delivery of managed security services.
Enabling hybrid work with Microsoft 365 and collaborative apps
The world around us has dramatically changed. Hybrid, global work requires structural changes to how we build and interact with applications. We need a new class of apps that are centered around enabling synchronous and asynchronous modes of collaboration with real-time meetings, ad-hoc messaging, document collaboration, and business processes automation. Microsoft Teams, together with the Microsoft Cloud, offers a comprehensive stack of technologies to build the next generation of apps: collaborative apps.
Windows 365 Partner Go To Market Event – August 18, 2021
In July we announced Windows 365 to the world during Microsoft Inspire, introducing Cloud PC as a new era for personal computing as a means to address those challenges. Now, we’d like to continue to share our vision for Windows 365 with our partners.
New communities experiences bolster employee engagement in the age of hybrid work
Employee engagement is now critical to business success. Survey data from our 2021 Work Trend Index revealed that 41 percent of employees are considering leaving their current employer this year. This level of turnover has big implications for how companies recruit, onboard, retain talent, and support overall development and employee wellbeing. It’s a new game of talent acquisition and retention in which employee engagement and the overall employee experience play a critical role.
Spotting brand impersonation with Swin transformers and Siamese neutral networks
Every day, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 encounters around one billion brand impersonation emails. Our security solutions use multiple detection and prevention techniques to help users avoid divulging sensitive information to phishers as attackers continue refining their impersonation tricks. In this blog, we discuss our latest innovation toward developing another detection layer focusing on the visual components of brand impersonation attacks. We presented this approach in our Black Hat briefing Siamese neural networks for detecting brand impersonation today.
Build apps for Microsoft 365
The modern workplace is evolving at lightning speed, with complex customer needs and new partner business models. Microsoft 365 helps people and organizations get work done from everywhere. This experience includes Microsoft Teams, which empowers our mutual customers to work the way they want by integrating apps and business processes, right where they work every day. Leverage this platform to customize and extend your existing app into Teams or build a new Teams app and help your customers be even more productive. |
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Join the conversation on Yammer!
Stay up to date with the latest Microsoft Cloud news by joining the ASfP Yammer group! It’s managed by Microsoft experts, and you can use it to get your questions answered and collaborate with other partners. |
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