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Update on new commerce timeline for CSP Government Community Cloud, education and non-profit legacy offers 

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.

By Shivonne Flanagan|2023-11-10T12:53:07+11:0010 November 2023|Comments Off

Microsoft-led migration of all CSP commercial subscriptions to New Commerce (NCE) begins from January 2024

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?

All legacy subscriptions that Microsoft will migrate to new commerce will be set to annual term with the same billing plan and seat counts that customers had in legacy
This migration will occur on the date of your customer’s subscription renewal, starting with all subscriptions set to renew in January 2024 and continuing throughout the 2024 calendar year
You will have seven days after migration is complete to change the subscription term, quantity or cancel the subscription if necessary

Recommended action for partners

Manage your customer migrations now to ensure they have the terms that best suit their business needs
For customers that want monthly subscription terms, migrate them before the legacy subscriptions reach end of term in 2024

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.

By Shivonne Flanagan|2023-10-17T12:18:16+11:0017 October 2023|0 Comments

Price Adjustments from Microsoft

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.

By Camila Sanchez|2023-08-14T13:39:02+10:007 August 2023|Comments Off

Microsoft security update – Migrating to GDAP

From 22^nd 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.

By Shivonne Flanagan|2023-06-08T17:21:28+10:0022 May 2023|Comments Off

Microsoft CSP Legacy Price Increases

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.

By Shivonne Flanagan|2023-06-08T16:57:13+10:0013 December 2022|Comments Off

Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances margin ends

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#/

By Shivonne Flanagan|2023-06-08T16:57:27+10:0011 December 2022|Comments Off

Partner Incentives for seat-based subscriptions in CSP Legacy end on December 31st 2023

As previously announced, partner incentives eligibility for seat-based subscriptions in CSP Legacy will retire in December 2022.

By Alex Baghdadlian|2023-06-08T17:22:59+10:0010 December 2022|Comments Off