| 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 seat-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 |
| Workspace |
December 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Customers |
Important updates to public sector launch in new commerce |
December 22 |
| General |
Microsoft will disable Office 365 E2 subscriptions that have been incorrectly renewed |
December 18 |
| General |
Reminder: New CSP-Hoster quarterly reporting replaces monthly reporting |
December 18 |
| General |
Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem |
December 18 |
| General |
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit evolving subscription and packaging model |
December 13 |
| General |
UPDATE: Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise Grant Sunset for the nonprofit sector |
December 13 |
| General |
Now Live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: December 2023 edition |
December 12 |
| Pricing |
The December NCE price list has Public Sector SKUs that will only become available in January |
December 11 |
| Pricing |
Download hub is now available for marketplace insights |
December 7 |
| Pricing |
Important changes to Commercial pricing update for Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sweden, and Taiwan |
December 6 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers |
December 5 |
| General |
December Cloud solution provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
December 5 |
| Workspace |
November 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Pricing |
December NCE price list preview will erroneously show Triennial Microsoft 365 E3 & E5 and Office 365 E3 SKUs |
November 30 |
| General |
Monthly update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, Specializations, and other Microsoft AI Cloud and Partner program offerings and benefits |
November 27 |
| General |
Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem |
November 20 |
| Customers |
New user experience for software keys and downloads |
November 17 |
| General |
Microsoft 365 and Copilot program to publish apps and plugins for Microsoft 365 is available in preview in Partner Center |
November 16 |
| General |
New commerce launch and migration details for Cloud Solution Provider, US Government Community Cloud, education, and nonprofit per-user legacy offers |
November 16 |
| Earnings |
Links to Transaction history, Revenue summary, Payment, and Export pages retired |
November 14 |
| Referrals |
Sales stage alignment to MCEM in Partner Center |
November 10 |
| Incentives |
FY24 Modern Work and Security Usage incentives updates |
November 10 |
| Pricing |
Changes to the November New Commerce price list |
November 10 |
| Help + support |
Now live: View and manage organization support requests |
November 9 |
| General |
The Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA) is being updated, effective May 1, 2024 |
November 9 |
| General |
A look ahead at upcoming changes to the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program |
November 8 |
| General |
November Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
November 7 |
| Incentives |
FY24 Business Applications incentives updates |
November 7 |
| Insights, APIs |
License and VM image version reports now available to ISVs via API download |
November 7 |
| Referrals |
Referral summary using generative AI |
November 7 |
| Customers, Pricing |
CSP offer retirement guide November update schedule |
November 6 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers |
November 2 |
| Billing |
New NCE Billing Overview page will soon be generally available |
November 1 |
| Billing |
New NCE Report Download page will soon be generally available |
November 1 |
| Workspace |
October 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Customers, marketplace |
New commercial marketplace customer documentation experience |
October 30 |
| General |
Monthly update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other program offerings and benefits |
October 27 |
| Referrals |
Referral activity history in Partner Center |
October 25 |
| Customers, APIs |
Customer account data quality enhancements |
October 25 |
| General |
Now available: Reactivate an Azure subscription from Partner Center portal and API |
October 25 |
| General |
Update on changes to Microsoft 365 and Teams licensing in Europe |
October 20 |
| General |
New commerce launch and migration timeline for Cloud Solution Provider Government Community Cloud, education, and nonprofit legacy offers |
October 18 |
| General |
Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem |
October 18 |
| General |
October Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
October 12 |
| Customers |
Azure savings plan is now available in Partner Center sandbox |
October 11 |
| General |
Now Live: Transactability of Business Central apps to AppSource |
October 10 |
| General |
New assessments-related insights for the Surface Reseller Alliance program |
October 9 |
| Earnings |
Now live: Earnings workspace in Partner Center |
October 5 |
| General |
Delayed until November 2023: Enterprise IoT protection included with Microsoft 365 E5 |
October 3 |
| Billing |
The unit price in the reconciliation data now shows the price based on the usage tiers |
October 3 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers |
October 2 |
| General |
New annual revenue requirement for CSP indirect resellers |
October 2 |
| Referrals |
Referral Inbound routing rules page has moved |
October 2 |
| Customers |
Introducing Town Halls in Microsoft Teams and retiring Microsoft Teams Live Events |
October 1 |
| Workspace |
September 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Incentives |
Online Services Usage – Microsoft 365 program page retirement |
September 29 |
| General |
Now Live! Partner Center Technical Corner blog series: September 2023 edition |
September 27 |
| General |
Monthly Update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other program offerings and benefits |
September 26 |
| General |
Reminder of Cloud Solution Provider commercial legacy seat-based subscription migrations to new commerce and update on Public Sector offers in new commerce |
September 26 |
| Payouts |
Revenue page now available for preview |
September 22 |
| General |
Monthly Update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem |
September 19 |
| Customers |
Transfer Azure savings plans between partners in Partner Center |
September 14 |
| Billing |
Tax invoice requirements for ISVs selling in Japan |
September 12 |
| Customers |
Dynamics 365 Cloud Migration Promo (CMP) offer retirement |
September 8 |
| General |
Sales deal execution playbook updates |
September 7 |
| General |
Changes to Microsoft 365 and Teams licensing in Europe |
September 5 |
| General |
September Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
September 5 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers in the Global Promo Readiness Guide |
September 1 |
| Pricing |
Upcoming enhancements to the CSP and CSP-Hoster programs |
September 1 |
| Workspace |
August 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Customers |
Microsoft Teams Rooms Licensing Enforcement starting October 1, 2023 |
August 31 |
| Referrals |
Enhancements to customer matching in new deal creation flow |
August 29 |
| General |
Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing transition now available for NCE |
August 29 |
| Insights |
New report shows capability-based co-selling insights on services co-selling |
August 28 |
| Earnings |
Introducing Earnings workspace in Partner Center |
August 23 |
| Pricing |
Republish of deprecated (DEPR) products on legacy license-based price list (AUD, CAD, CHF) and price list preview (NZD) |
August 17 |
| General |
A Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program Guide update is coming |
August 17 |
| Account settings |
Monthly update: Reminder of actions partners need to take with GDAP to secure the partner ecosystem |
August 16 |
| Membership |
Monthly Update: What's new for Solutions Partner designations, Specializations, and other program benefits |
August 15 |
| Billing |
Manage Azure Spending for new commerce only on the Azure Spending (NCE) page |
August 14 |
| Billing |
New UI for Billing overview with improved performance coming to new commerce experience (NCE) |
August 14 |
| Billing |
Align reconciliation file column names with API JSON attributes |
August 14 |
| Customers |
The Get Custom Term End Dates API is now available for partners |
August 11 |
| Pricing |
Additional End of Sales products that were not included in the price list preview |
August 11 |
| Payouts |
Attributes added to default Transaction history template |
August 9 |
| General |
August Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
August 9 |
| Referrals |
Get customer insights for co-sell opportunities |
August 9 |
| General |
Partner Center will display in a light or dark theme based on your browser settings |
August 8 |
| Incentives |
Changes to Incentives workspace – Overview and Program pages |
August 1 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers |
August 1 |
| Workspace |
July 2023 announcements |
Announced |
| Pricing |
NCE license-based preview price list will display false positives in countries/regions where there are no FX changes |
July 31 |
| General |
Manage, secure, and govern your SQL Server estate with Azure Arc |
July 26 |
| Customers |
Now live: New order history states and eligibility of subscription upgrades |
July 17 |
| Insights |
Monthly update: Important actions partners need to take to secure the partner ecosystem |
July 17 |
| Insights |
Microsoft's commitment to ensuring partner compliance - resending with corrections |
July 13 |
| Marketplace offers |
ISV partners can now create private offers for SaaS and VM products with customized attributes |
July 13 |
| Benefits |
New specializations for Solutions Partners in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program |
July 12 |
| General |
July Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder |
July 12 |
| General |
Next steps in CSP new commerce: Commercial legacy seat-based subscription migration and introduction of public sector offers |
July 11 |
| General |
Introductory pricing for Teams Premium extended! |
July 11 |
| Pricing |
Important licensing changes to Microsoft commercial business in Australian dollars (AUD), New Zealand dollars (NZD), Canadian dollars (CAD), and Swiss francs (CHF) |
July 5 |
| Pricing |
View the latest promotions and offers in the Global Promo Readiness Guide |
July 3 |
| Insights |
Microsoft's commitment to ensuring partner compliance |
July 3 |
| Customers |
Immediate action required for Microsoft Teams Rooms licensing enforcement |
July 1 |