Microsoft shifted to its new approach with the Microsoft Customer Agreement after broadening access to Azure via its CSP partner community, which has mushroomed to thousands of partners, White noted.

Now, Microsoft is pulling back control over the transactional elements associated with licensing Azure services, he added. The acquisitions are expected to enhance Ivanti's mobile endpoint security offerings. Questions? The Microsoft Customer Agreement is a "perpetual contract that doesn't expire for transactional purchases," according to the FAQ. Azure account administrators in organizations will get an e-mail from Microsoft at licensing renewal time when the Microsoft Customer Agreement is available, and a Microsoft sales representative will contact the organization around that time. The AgreementDocument resource is currently supported by Partner Center only in the Microsoft public cloud. You can obtain the templateId for Microsoft Customer Agreement by retrieving the agreement metadata for Microsoft Customer Agreement. Under Microsoft customer agreement, select Update.

The language in which the Microsoft Customer Agreement template should be localized. ". He pointed out that software licensing is still a complex affair for organizations, despite attempts by software vendors to simplify it for cloud services. Gives partner the option to direct customers to Microsoft to accept agreement rather than mandating partner attestation. When requesting for a link to download the Microsoft Customer Agreement template, Be sure to specify the correct country based on customer's location. The MPA is designed to streamline the way you do business with Microsoft.


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Partner facilitates and reports customer’s acceptance of the agreement to Microsoft. With the new agreement, organizations will buy Azure services via a direct relationship with a Microsoft representative or via a portal, rather than going through a partner, in most cases. List of supported countries and languages, Get agreement metadata for Microsoft Customer Agreement, Unique identifier of the agreement type. These customers can now skip re-signing and partners can implement solutions faster. The query defaults to, Indicates the language in which the agreement template should be localized. You cannot set this to a future date. Partners benefit from simplified agreement management.

One flexible agreement with modular terms designed for geographic and segment relevance replaces various agreements for different offers and programs. Partners are obligated to ensure that customers accept the Microsoft Customer Agreement before purchases in CSP are made, whether through attestation or directing customers to the Admin Center (coming later in 2020). The Microsoft Customer Agreement is country-specific. The query defaults to en-US if the method isn't specified or the country code specified isn't supported for the country specified. However, with the Microsoft Customer Agreement, partner activities are mostly consigned to "value-added presales services and post-sale solutions for your Azure services," according to the FAQ.