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Microsoft's Solutions Partner designation replaces Silver and Gold with a 70-point bar, 10 new customer adds, and 500 MAU growth. Here is the scoring math and why most MSPs will fall short.
July 2022 for MSPs: Teams shared channels hit GA, Viva Engage replaces the Communities app, the V1 Exchange Online PowerShell module heads for retirement, and the partner program overhaul gets a date.
June 2022 for MSPs: Temporary Access Pass reaches GA for passwordless onboarding, Microsoft walks back the July 11 legacy CSP renewal block, and Teams ships seven features.
April 2022 for MSPs: Defender for Business standalone arrives at $3 per user, legacy CSP renewals get until July 11, Azure subscriptions transfer between partners, and Windows 365 goes annual.
As of March 18, 2022, NCE lets you align every subscription under a customer to a single renewal date. How proration works, the scenarios it will not cover, and how to turn it on.
Pair Azure AD PIM with GDAP security groups and your techs activate customer access for a few hours instead of holding it forever. The full 2022-era setup, screenshot by screenshot.
GDAP forces a question DAP never asked: which Azure AD roles do your techs actually need per customer? A practical baseline, the architecture behind it, and what to do about Global Admin.
Microsoft released GDAP for M365 workloads in January 2022. This walkthrough covers requesting the relationship, customer approval, and the security group step most MSPs miss.
Partner Center's Security Center now reports on every DAP relationship, including sign-in activity and stale connections. Here is where to find it and what to cut, as of January 2022.
December 2021 for MSPs: DAP monitoring and self-service removal go live, GDAP hits technical preview for January 2022, SMTP DANE comes to Exchange Online, and Teams quiets its activity feed.
November 2021 for MSPs: Defender for Business lands in Business Premium at no extra cost, NCE promos slip to January 2022, GDAP is announced, and CSP partners get Azure AD P2 free.
GDAP replaces permanent Global Admin access to every customer tenant with granular, time-bound roles. Here is what changes for MSPs, announced November 2021.
