Microsoft Partner Summary - April 28th - May 2nd, 2025
John O'Donnell
ISV, Dynamics 365, Startup, AppSource Marketplace and partnering with Microsoft Subject Matter Expert | Microsoft Founders Hub Mentor | Former Microsoft MVP (CRM)
Hello, Microsoft Global Partner Community and welcome to this week's Partner Summary for April 28th – May 2nd, 2025
CSP: Deepening our investment in our partners - Link
The Microsoft mission is clear: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our partners enable us to deliver this mission in every customer segment, industry, and region.
At Microsoft Ignite 2024, we put a spotlight on the $661 billion total addressable market (TAM) opportunity for small and medium enterprise customer segments in FY25 and beyond.* Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners are the trusted advisors who serve these customers and enable them to accelerate their AI transformation with the value-added services and solutions that create real business impact. CSP is our hero motion that enables those partners to drive this transformation.
Today, I’m pleased to announce additional updates designed to help CSP partners drive more renewals and upgrades, retain customers, upsell, and scale their businesses. At the same time, we will deepen our investment in the partners who are delivering transformational impact with customers, aligned to our strategic imperatives.
Today’s announcements are a continuation of our investments in CSP offers, capabilities, and enablement for FY25, through which we:
Aligned incentives to our five strategic priorities: Copilot on every device across every role; AI design wins with every customer; securing the cyber foundation of every customer; migrations, migrations, migrations; and Microsoft 365 core execution.
Dedicated 70% of our total partner incentives to partners that serve the small and medium enterprise customer segments.
Launched new capabilities that help partners access, review, and respond to jointly planned leads shared by small and medium enterprise customer sellers and track progress and performance between Partner Center and MSX.
Introduced a series of new promotions, including our new-to-Microsoft 365 E5 offer to help CSP partners win new customers.
Introducing three-year subscription terms in CSP
To expand deal-making capabilities and offer a more consistent experience across purchasing channels, including those transitioning from expiring Enterprise Agreements (EAs), we're launching three-year subscription terms for Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, with or without Teams, as well as Teams Enterprise licenses in CSP on June 1, 2025. They will be available for purchase with three-year upfront or triennial/annual billing options only.
Microsoft News:
How agentic AI is driving AI-first business transformation for customers to achieve more - Link
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Link
CSP: Deepening our investment in our partners - Link
Microsoft news from around the world:
Microsoft Finland: An opportunity for the Finnish public sector to become a pioneer in artificial intelligence – AI Academy to promote expertise in a human-centered way - Link
Microsoft Partner:
CSP: Deepening our investment in our partners - Link
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference: Partnering for success - Link
Top Stories: April 29, 2025 - Link
Microsoft Industry:
Education:
Empowering everyone with agents in Copilot Chat - Link
Microsoft inside Track:
Eliminating mundane repetitive tasks with our new Microsoft Teams app - Link
Five ways we’re getting more out of Microsoft Teams in the era of AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot - Link
Microsoft Marketplaces:
The Marketplace Partner Digest | April 2025 - Link
Microsoft AppSource Marketplace:
New in Microsoft AppSource: April 10-21, 2025 - Link
Microsoft Azure Marketplace:
New in Azure Marketplace: April 10-21, 2025 - Link
Microsoft 365:
What’s new in frontline worker shared devices – April 2025 - Link
Microsoft Azure:
Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025 - Link
Microsoft Azure AI:
One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI - Link
Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape - Link
Powering intelligent decision-making with Azure and AI - Link
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry:
What’s new in Azure AI Foundry | April 2025 - Link
Azure AI Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code April 2025 Update - Link
Microsoft Azure Arc:
Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 304% ROI within 3 years using Azure Arc - Link
Microsoft Copilot Studio:
What’s new in Copilot Studio: April 2025 - Link
Microsoft Developer:
Guest Blog: Letting AI Help Make the World More Accessible – Analyzing Website Accessibility with Semantic Kernel and OmniParser #SemanticKernel - Link
Microsoft Dynamics 365:
2025 release wave 1 brings hundreds of updates to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - Link
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service:
Announcing Dynamics 365 Contact Center WhatsApp channel powered by Azure Communication Services - Link
Transform customer support with case summary auto-enablement - Link
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center:
What’s new in unified routing: April 2025 feature update - Link
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
What’s New in Copilot for Sales – April 2025 - Link
Microsoft Learn:
You did it! We’re GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title holders - Link
Microsoft Power Platform:
Use Monitor to maximize production health (Preview) - Link
Use shareable Service Principal Name with Power Apps - Link
Introducing Power Platform and Copilot Studio Architecture Center - Link
Microsoft Research:
Societal AI: Building human-centered AI systems - Link
Microsoft Security:
Pushing passkeys forward: Microsoft’s latest updates for simpler, safer sign-ins - Link
14 Secure Coding Tips: Learn from the Experts at @Build - Link
Microsoft announces the 2025 Security Excellence Awards winners - Link
Microsoft Teams:
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2025 - Link
Eliminating mundane repetitive tasks with our new Microsoft Teams app - Link
Five ways we’re getting more out of Microsoft Teams in the era of AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot - Link
2025 Events:
Microsoft 365 Community Conference Sponsored by Microsoft
May 6-8, 2025 – Las Vegas
Registration - https://m365conf.com/#!/register
Microsoft Build
May 19-22, 2025 – Seattle and Online
Registration - https://register.build.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Book Of News:
Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News - Link
Microsoft Build 2024 Book of News - Link
Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News - Link
Microsoft Build 2023 Book of News - Link
Microsoft eBooks:
Reduce Risk, Create Resilience: Advancing Supply Chain Sustainability - Link
Optimize Shopper Experiences with a Strong Data Estate: Transforming data into innovation - Link
Explore the business case for responsible AI in new IDC whitepaper - Link
The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Power Automate - Link
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide - Link
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide for executives - Link
Microsoft Cyber Signals - Link
Digital Operations Signals Interest Form - Link
Configure, Adapt, Innovate: Overcoming supply chain challenges with composable solutions – Link
5 Ways a Connected Seller Solution Improves Sales Performance - Link
Thank you for reading and for your interest in this report.