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Microsoft's New Commerce Experience brings annual lock-ins, a 20% premium on monthly terms, and March 2022 price increases to seat-based CSP. The full breakdown plus an MSP action plan.
Forgotten licenses on converted shared mailboxes quietly drain margin. Here is a scheduled Azure Function, plus a local script, that finds and strips them across all your customers.
Move recurring PowerShell jobs off an on-prem server and into serverless Azure Functions, authenticating to every customer tenant with the secure application model.
Microsoft lets end users buy subscriptions on their own credit card, outside your CSP margin. Here is a one-script way to disable self-service purchasing across all the tenants you manage.
A GoDaddy-federated Microsoft 365 tenant can't move to CSP or Direct. Here is how to defederate it in place, keep every user account, and bring it under your management with no downtime.
As of April 2019, Shift, Silver Competency, and Sky's the Limit stack on the same net-new 365 customers. Here is the math that pushes margin to 47%.
Microsoft competencies are a kickback program in disguise. As of April 2019, four net-new customers and a $1,670 fee can net an MSP $1,030 a year on the 6% rebate alone.
