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Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories. Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories. This page provides the announcements for Microsoft Partner Center for June 2025. Beginning July 1, 2025, Microsoft is offering a more consistent experience across purchasing channels.

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Microsoft continuously reviews the policies and capabilities of all programs. Check back often to find news about feature releases, policy changes, and more. Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic? Welcome to the June edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month, we’re spotlighting new AI assistant capabilities for enhanced partner support, tools to optimize small and medium enterprises, and a summary of recent releases. As always, at the end of the blog you can find the most up-to-date essential Partner Center resources.

Partner Center AI assistant (preview) is built to enhance your Partner Center experience with generative AI, offering tailored insights and intelligent suggestions to transform everyday tasks in Partner Center into opportunities for growth and... As we continue to equip the AI assistant to offer better, more tailored results, we have steadily expanded its capabilities to help make your daily operations more efficient and insight-driven. Currently available in preview to partners using the English version of Partner Center, the AI assistant can be accessed via the sparkle icon in the upper-right corner of the page. We will expand this offering to other languages soon. As needed, partners can initiate the support ticket creation process through the AI assistant panel. AI assistant now provides comprehensive support for the partner incentives co-op questions in the Earnings and Incentives workspaces.

Partners can now quickly access vital information about co-op policies, deadlines, qualifying activities, and proof of execution requirements—information that previously required referencing lengthy documentation. You can ask the AI assistant questions like: "What is the claim deadline for FY25H1 co-op?" or "What are the qualifying activities for partner skilling?" and get quick answers. In January, we introduced the AI assistant Anywhere scenarios in the Earnings workspace, empowering partners to view their detailed earnings trends (by program, engagement, or lever); analyze payment details for their specific customers; and... Partners can access these capabilities by choosing a specific record in the Payments summary tab or Earnings summary tab and choosing the option from the sparkle icon on the page. The AI assistant quickly generates the right prompt and provides a customized response in the AI assistant chat. Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.

See also Partner Skilling Resources and the Partner Skilling Calendar. Join this exciting new hands-on learning experience to enhance your AI skills! The one-day presales track showcases AI potential with agentic AI. The two-day technical team leaders & solution architects track covers architecture for success with multi-agent AI systems. AI developers will join the full four-day track, deep diving Microsoft Copilot Studio and SharePoint agents to advanced multi-agent development using Azure AI Foundry, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Microsoft Teams SDK, culminating in a... June 2-6 (IST, BST, PDT) Click here to Register

A hands-on workshop where participants build intelligent multi-agent applications using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and GitHub. It equips developers with practical skills in AI agent customization, orchestration, and automation to accelerate real-world AI adoption. Hello, Microsoft Global Partner Community and welcome to this week's Partner Summary for June 2nd – June 6th, 2025 Partner Center Technical Corner: June 2025 edition by Mike Clark, VP Partner Center Engineering Team Welcome to the June edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month, we’re spotlighting new AI assistant capabilities for enhanced partner support, tools to optimize small and medium enterprises, and a summary of recent releases.

As always, at the end of the blog you can find the most up-to-date essential Partner Center resources. Empowering partners: The evolution of the Partner Center AI assistant Partner Center AI assistant (preview) is built to enhance your Partner Center experience with generative AI, offering tailored insights and intelligent suggestions to transform everyday tasks in Partner Center into opportunities for growth and... As we continue to equip the AI assistant to offer better, more tailored results, we have steadily expanded its capabilities to help make your daily operations more efficient and insight-driven. Several significant updates are being implemented to improve financial reporting and billing processes. The go-live date for the Partner Reported Azure Consumed Revenue (PRACR) vNext report has been rescheduled to July 11, 2025, offering an enhanced and streamlined reporting experience.

Additionally, starting June 1, 2025, the New Commerce Experience (NCE) license-based price lists include a new PreviousValue column to show prior month's values for changed items and the file names are now more descriptive... From June 2025, partners can also use the existing price sheet API to retrieve End-of-Sale (EOS) NCE license-based price list data for the past six months by setting the PricesheetView parameter to licensebasedeos. Finally, to enable faster and more efficient downloads, all billed usage and reconciliation files are now delivered in .CSV.GZIP format, significantly reducing download times (e.g., from over 6 hours to 6 minutes for high-volume... Large invoices will also be split into multiple .CSV.GZIP files. Several significant Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) promotional offers have been extended through September 30, 2025 (FY26 Q1). The Microsoft 365 Copilot Getting Started CSP Promotion offers a 15% discount on new Copilot subscriptions (10 to 2,400 seats) for 12 months, allowing flexible additions of seats and billing options (annual or monthly...

This promotion is available worldwide for new or existing Microsoft 365 Copilot customers (Promo ID: 39NFJQT20KJ2). The Accelerate with Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 15% Annual Term CSP promotions are also extended through September 30, 2025. CSP partners can offer a 15% discount on the net partner price for new annual term Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 subscriptions for eligible new-to-offer customers, up to 2,400 users, with no deal minimums... Partners have the flexibility to offer either these extended 1-year 15% offers or the recently launched 3-year 10% Microsoft 365 offers. Microsoft is rolling out two significant updates for its partner ecosystem in 2025: a major overhaul of Microsoft Partner Center compliance and attestation processes, and a suite of new promotions for Cloud Solution Provider... Both changes are designed to streamline operations, enhance security, and provide partners with greater flexibility and value when serving customers.

Starting October 7, 2025, Microsoft is tightening compliance around the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) for all partners. The company is retiring the current API and Partner Center user experience (UX) for MCA attestation, replacing them with a new, enhanced partner attestation API. This change means that partners will no longer be able to use the old API or the UX-based attestation process. Instead, they must either integrate the new API or require new customers to accept the MCA directly through the Microsoft 365 admin center before placing any orders. The MCA bulk attestation tool, which allowed partners to attest to multiple customer agreements at once, will become read-only after May 7, 2025, and will be fully retired by January 2026. This transition is part of Microsoft’s broader effort to improve compliance, protect intellectual property, and enhance security across its partner ecosystem.

The new API is available in sandbox environments for partners to begin integration and testing as of April 11, 2025. Partners who do not transition to the new API by the October 7 deadline will be required to have new customers directly accept the MCA before any orders can be placed. Existing attestations or direct customer acceptances completed before this date will remain valid and do not need to be reaccepted. Only net new customers-those for whom a partner wants to attest on their behalf-will be impacted by these changes. Microsoft emphasizes that these changes are essential for maintaining trust and compliance within the partner ecosystem. “Microsoft runs on trust.

Operating compliantly is essential to maintaining trust with our customers, and partners play an important role in ensuring compliance,” the company stated in its official announcement. General Manager, Worldwide Partner Programs Your voice shapes the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—and we’re listening. In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI... Don’t miss MCAPS Start for Partners: July 15, 2025 | 8:00 AM–12:30 PM PT Join Judson Althoff, Jared Spataro, Nick Parker, Ralph Haupter, Nicole Dezen, and Julie Sanford for a digital readiness event to kick off the FY26 fiscal year together.

Register now to learn about Microsoft strategic priorities, investments, Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program enhancements, and new opportunities to scale your business. FY26 Cloud Solution Area Partner Playbooks now available

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