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I used to work for a company that was an MPN partner and the changes wouldn't have affected us. I'm assuming that I've understood the changes correctly, so I co
by reallydontask 7y ago
I used to work for a company that was an MPN partner and the changes wouldn't have affected us. I'm assuming that I've understood the changes correctly, so I could be wrong.
Maybe it's some vocal partners rather than the majority that would be affected by this?
In any case, unless they have ample evidence of abuse this is a bad move
- TheSmiddy 7y agoThis is the new licences available to partners: https://assetsprod.microsoft.com/en-us/mpn-maps-software-iur-competency-license-table.docx https://assetsprod.microsoft.com/en-us/mpn-maps-software-iur... I work for a silver partner and this literally doesn't affect us. There aren't many "good faith" configurations I can imagine that would struggle fitting into this model. I'd be all ears if there's someone affected but I imagine those businesses would be operating multiple arms, one of which is performing the functions of a Microsoft partner and the other is leveraging the free access to tools to drastically cut the costs of operation.
- disiplus 7y agoyeah, i imagine that they are maybe hosting software for customers with the free licences or something else, or else why would that be such a big change for some of them.
- aksss 7y agoIt hurts the small partners the most. I think losing the silver and gold on-prem license grants are probably a good thing, and it will be interesting to see if any locals take a material hit having to buy up the replacement licenses for their operation. Like the guy above said, I do think some subsidiary arms are just fronts for buying cheap IURs in the Gold program. But the smallest start up service providers losing the 5-seat IURs for O365 in the action pack will really hurt them and the ability of new partners to start up.