Microsoft has launched a new guided user interface in Partner Center that is designed to enable partners with expiring and/or expired EA agreements and subscriptions to renew into CSP.
Channel Transfers provides an easier way for partners to know what services their EA customer needs and acquire them in CSP. This tool ensures that partners who have customers with expiring Enterprise Agreements (EA) with Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 with Teams and Office 365 E1, E3, and E5 with Teams, which are end of sale (EOS), can renew into CSP and keep their Teams entitlement.
With this new user interface, partners are able to:
- Renew expiring EA subscriptions that haven't yet been renewed and EA subscriptions in the 90-day grace period into CSP.
- Assist customers with expiring EA subscriptions to Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise suites with Teams to choose an annual or monthly term subscription of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise suites with Teams in CSP.
- See their customers’ EA per user subscriptions and easily renew the subscriptions that are available in CSP.
The functionality in this new interface is enabled for license-based, per user subscriptions only. This is only for commercial license-based new commerce subscriptions, not Azure, software, perpetual or third party.
Partners who want to continue public sector services from EA to CSP can use the manual path to purchase the CSP subscriptions using the partner center catalogue user interface or APIs.
Partners can choose to utilise the Partner Centre UI Channel Transfers tool or manually create subscriptions for the tenant in CSP.