Microsoft has announced a grace period allowing you to exchange Azure compute reservations (Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances, Azure Dedicated Host reservations, and Azure App Services reservations) until at least July 1, 2024, extending the original deprecation date from January 1, 2024. However, the new reservation exchange policy’s start date remains January 1 2024.
Click here to learn more about the exchange policy change.
From 1st July 2024, Microsoft will begin migrating all CSP partners with government, education, and NFP customers to new commerce (NCE). Partners are encouraged to prioritise migrating all their public sector customers from legacy to new commerce system during the months of January through June 2024, before Microsoft-led migration begins in July.
Please note
| Government, Education, and NFP | Available in new commerce |
| Wave 1 | March 1, 2024 |
| Wave 2 | March 1, 2024 |
| Wave 3 | April 1, 2024 |
| Wave 4 | May 1, 2024 |
While Microsoft will migrate all offers remaining in the legacy system to new commerce in 2024, the timeline for Microsoft-led migration of commercial offers is different than the timeline for public sector offers. To clarify the differences, here are the key dates for each migration effort:
| CSP offers | Available in new commerce | Microsoft-led migration begins for offers renewing on this date |
| Commercial SKUs | Now | January 11, 2024 |
| Education, Not-for-profit (NFP), Government | Starting January 1, 2024 | July 1, 2024 |
For any migration related queries, please reach out to the Synnex CSP team csp@au.synnex-grp.com.
Starting April 1st, 2024, all existing Microsoft CSP partners will be required to have a minimum of USD 1,000 in trailing 12 months (TTM) CSP revenue (including Perpetual Software) at the reseller tenant level in each of the CSP regions in which they sell. This is a Microsoft-led motion for all their CSP partners globally. The revenue requirement must be met annually, on your tenant onboarding anniversary date, for you to remain authorised to transact as a CSP.
Click here for more information on the minimum revenue requirement for partners.
Please reach out to csp@au.synnex-grp.com should you have any questions.
Microsoft will launch CSP public sector offers in the new commerce system starting January 1, 2024. To give partners time to adjust to this change, Microsoft-led migration of public sector offers will begin starting July 1, 2024. We’ll share the full launch and migration plan in mid-November 2023.
Click here to learn more about this update and the next steps.
If you need additional support, please reach out to the Synnex CSP team csp@au.synnex-grp.com.
From January 2024, Microsoft will begin migrating all CSP commercial subscriptions that remain in the legacy system to new commerce (NCE). This migration includes CSP commercial offers being used by Government entities.
Who will this impact?
This migration will impact all CSP Direct Bill, Indirect Resellers, and Indirect Providers.
What will happen?
Recommended action for partners
For resources on how to migrate to new commerce, please click here.
If you need additional support, please reach out to the Synnex CSP team csp@au.synnex-grp.com.
Starting September 1st, 2023, pricing for Microsoft cloud and on-premises software services will adjust for local currency fluctuations.
Microsoft has announced pricelist changes for Australian Dollar (AUD) as per below:
| Currency | Cloud Change % | OnPrem Change % |
| Australian Dollar | +9% | +9% |
*Percentage changes on individual SKUs may vary slightly from these percentages due to pricing calculations and rounding rules.
Visit Microsoft Partner Centre Updates to get additional details including links to the Microsoft Operational Readiness Gallery and FAQs. Please reach out to licensing@au.synnex-grp.com should you have any questions.
From 22nd May, Microsoft will start migrating from a Delegated Admin Privilege (DAP) relationship to Granular Delegated Admin Privilege (GDAP). All existing Microsoft commercial cloud (Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Power Platform) customer tenants will need to transition from DAP to GDAP.
If you need any help in migrating to GDAP, please reach out to our Synnex CSP team for assistance.
Renewal and adjustment of existing legacy subscriptions will continue to be available via Synnex CSP for seat-based subscriptions into 2023. However, starting from 1st of February 2023 Synnex will be required to pass on a price increase in CSP Legacy subscription renewal. If you need any assistance in migrating your customers to the CSP New Commerce Experience, please reach out to the Synnex CSP team for assistance.
Please be aware Microsoft have advised that as of January 2023, upfront margin will no longer be offered on Azure Reserved Instances. This means that moving forward the cost you see for Reservations purchased will be the same as the RRP. Other related incentives will be unchanged. Any Reserved Instanced provisioned prior to January 2023 will not be affected by this change, although the new pricing structure will be applied after their term concludes and at the time of renewal.
For more information on this change please see this collection in the Microsoft partner portal:
https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/collection/changes-to-partner-margin-for-azure-reservations#/
As previously announced, partner incentives eligibility for seat-based subscriptions in CSP Legacy will retire in December 2022.
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