Microsoft is axing internal use rights for its products for its reseller partners

guest · Jul 6, 2019

Microsoft is axing internal use rights for its products for its reseller partners
July 6, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/micro...s-for-its-products-for-its-reseller-partners/

Microsoft plans to discontinue its practice of providing its reseller partners with internal use rights for product licenses next year. Microsoft notified partners of this change via a post to its partner.microsoft.com site on July 1, the start of its fiscal 2020. The change will be final in a year, on July 1, 2020.

The post on Microsoft's site doesn't provide any reasons for discontinuing partners' internal use rights.
Microsoft also is cutting back on the on-premises product support incident benefits that its partners got as part of the Microsoft Action Pack (MAP) and competencies.
Unsurprisingly, partners who considered compensated product licenses to be part of their partner benefits, as they have been traditionally, were none too pleased.
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guest · Jul 12, 2019

Microsoft capitulates and agrees to undo planned partner product-licensing changes
July 12, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/micro...do-planned-partner-product-licensing-changes/

After widespread outcry by many of its reseller partners about a decision to start charging them for using its software and services to run their businesses -- after decades of largely looking the other way -- Microsoft is capitulating.
The company is no longer going to revoke internal use rights (IURs) for its partners next year, as it announced.

In a note posted to its Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) site on July 12, Microsoft's channel chief Gavriella Schuster stated:

"Given your feedback, we have made the decision to roll back all planned changes related to internal use rights and competency timelines that were announced earlier this month. [...]
"We listened to you, and we have acted. [...]"
I admit, I am very surprised. Even though partners were in an uproar over this change, I figured Microsoft officials already had decided after much consideration that the company could weather the IUR storm
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I've asked Microsoft if it is undoing the other changes announced late last week, such as requiring cloud partners to obtain ten net-new tenants per year. I believe so, but I'm double-checking to be sure.
Update: Microsoft revoked the whole kit and caboodle. Free on-premises support incidents are back. The requirement for CSPs to add ten net-new tenants (instead of four) per year also has been revoked, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed.
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xxJackxx · Jul 12, 2019

Good they are undoing this. I was disappointed when they killed off the TechNet subscriptions. They just keep making it harder to get access to their products. That said, they don't seem to offer many software products anymore so I guess it doesn't matter (to me).

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