Microsoft has proposed the agreement based on a few valid reasons like simplifying the contracting procedure, clarifying and distinguishing roles and responsibilities in reference to regulatory requirements and to ensure there’s transparency for Microsoft and Microsoft partner network.

The new Agreement

In the latest Microsoft partner agreement, Microsoft replaces all previous Microsoft Agreements for Indirect Resellers and Indirect provider like the Microsoft Cloud Distributor Agreement (MCDA), the Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement Multi-Tier Amendment, Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement (MCRA), and the Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement for US Government Cloud. It also replaces Terms and Conditions Agreement.

The Microsoft partner agreement has a multiple business Microsoft CSP benefits to Partners like:

• Improved transparency that leads to Protection of long-term growth and a smooth business sail for Microsoft partner network.
• Easier adherence to solid business practices and privacy regulations
• Better understanding of roles and responsibilities for a continuous service delivery
• Establishment of trust due to adherence and strong business channel with sound business practices in Microsoft partner network.
• Providing administration access to third-party technical and customer service providers with full confidence.

What Partners need to do?

For organizations already under a CSP Program who are direct bill, indirect providers or indirect resellers, they need to sign up the latest MPA before the deadline approaches. The newer MPA addresses legal concerns in a better manner. Accepting the new Microsoft partner agreement allows for smooth transactions through Partner Center API or User Interface (aka Partner Center Dashboard). Failure to accept the MPA will lead to your organization not being able to add new subscriptions or add seats to existing subscriptions under the CSP Program and the Microsoft partner network. However, the organization will still be able to administer existing subscribers and users. The final deadline to accept the MPA and stay within the CSP Program is Aug. 31, 2020.

MachSol is providing guidance to CSPs including indirect resellers, indirect providers and Direct billing CSPs to adhere to the latest Partner agreement proposed by Microsoft for a smooth and streamlined Cloud Provision and administration experience.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel supports full-fledge automation and management of CSP business for Direct and Indirect CSPs.  The robust platform includes end-to-end business management where you can showcase, bundle and sell integrated offers and services through white labeled customized storefront, offer Microsoft O365 & Azure services and Control Billing and reporting with just a few clicks. A Detailed dashboard is there to display Analytics, BI dashboard and streamline Recurring Billing with Payment Processing.

Get on board with MachPanel to cater for all your CSP requirements regarding the new MPA and stay right on track with the latest CSP requirements.

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Microsoft Teams is diverse. Microsoft Teams is intense. Teams benefits are huge and Teams is everything that is needed by a cloud-based business for modern-day collaboration. You heard it Right. Teams conquers all the rest. With Teams, nothing can hold back your team.

What makes Teams stand out from others? Firstly, it’s backed by Microsoft with top-notch integrated chat, video calls, file sharing features and many more.  Secondly, here are four reasons how Teams benefits a cloud business:

• Teams Gives priority to Quick Communication: Ever had a situation where you lose a client by a few seconds? That’s very common in the fast-paced communication era of today and Teams knows that best. For time sensitive communication, Teams benefits customers by providing a feature of Priority notifications to cloud business Providers where your device keeps on pinging your recipients’ device, until you finally get their attention.
• Easy communication management across Teams: with abundant communication, you seldom lose control of what was needed when, and who is going to approve the document list not to forget which email is to be forwarded to whom. Here comes the communication management part which is made easy with features like Announcements, Channel cross posting and Channel moderation (the latter two features haven’t been rolled out yet, but are in process)
• Easier Schedule management at work: There’s a Time Clock feature that allows users to log their work timings right from Teams. Another feature is @mentioning where you can send one message to all people with the same role (e.g. @cashiers)
• The Teams Ecosystem: Teams has got all that is needed for a complete calling solution with features like Call recording for compliance, Contact center solutions and integration with Workforce management and Microsoft 365 partners.

ALSO READ: A look into Microsoft Teams Security & Compliance

MachPanel Automation Module for CSPs and Skype for Business

Teams is the communication tool of tomorrow. MachPanel is a cloud-based Automation control Panel of today. The “born-in-the-cloud” Control Panel, MachPanel is all you need for a promising end-to-end business management platform. With MachPanel, you can Showcase Bundle & Sell, Own & Control the billing, get latest and Detailed Reporting & Analytics, monitor pulse of your business and make better informed decisions with BI Dashboard and much more. The No. 1 Platform for CSPs is all you need for successful cloud business automation.

Since Skype for Business Server is soon going to be merged into Teams, MachPanel offers state-of-the-art support for all the Skype4B integration needs of today. Features like Enterprise Voice, Billing, Reporting, Dial Plans, Response Groups, Phone Numbers and Persistent Chat are all supported. There are SIP Gateways to facilitate your communications and Call reports to make you manage your calls.

Head over to MachPanel for a smooth cloud-business journey which caters all the needs of today and tomorrow.

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Enormously getting enriched with cloud Automation is essential to professionals involved in Cloud Businesses or Cloud Provision to facilitate users’ urge to acquire cloud-first approach and get access to required data and information with just a few clicks. Many of the Providers have reshaped their infrastructure to get aligned with technology and seek a pathway to get into Cloud Business in order to provide OTG services based on latest Cloud Strategies. MachSol Inc. is “born-in-the-cloud” technology provider that can help you to upgrade not only your business model to offer cloud services but can also assist you to automate and manage your entire cloud business in a unified manner.

If you are offering Cloud hosting services to your clients, look no further. You will need nothing more than a complete Cloud Automation Platform: MachPanel. It has got all the tools you need in one place, to completely automate your cloud business by means of the following MachPanel modules:

Microsoft Exchange Automation

Microsoft Approved Control Panel and completely supporting Multi-tenancy and Segregation for Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft Exchange 2016 alongside older version i.e. MS Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2007.

Microsoft SharePoint Automation

Allows you selling hosted Microsoft SharePoint and completely supports Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 & 2013 and all legacy versions.

Microsoft Skype for Business Automation

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft Skype for Business Unifies your communication and fully supports Multi-tenancy and Segregation for Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2019, Skype for Business 2015, Microsoft Lync 2013 alongside Microsoft Lync 2010 and its multi-tenant hosting pack release. MachPanel Lync has achieved Microsoft Qualified Lync Application status as well. Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2019 is a full fledge digital communication Application which is ready to be replaced into Microsoft Teams in future.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 & CRM Automation

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft Hyper-V – VPS Control Panel Empowers you to sell Microsoft Dynamics 365 & CRM 2016 and offers support to legacy versions Dynamics CRM 2015/2013/2011/4.0

Microsoft Hyper-V Automation – VPS Control Panel

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft Hyper-V – VPS Control Panel helps you provision, manage and bill Microsoft Windows 2019/2016/2012 R2 Hyper-V via self-serving control panel for providers, resellers and end-clients.

WorkFolders – Automated File Syncing and Collaboration Solution

MachPanel Work Folders Automated File Syncing and Collaboration Solution helps support better file syncing and collaboration while supporting the latest Microsoft Work Folders file server with Windows Server 2012 R2 OS.

MachPanel Tool for Web Hosting

MachPanel Cloud based Web Hosting is equipped with all the tools needed for a fully scalable and reliable windows web hosting control panel. It enables reselling of SaaS based enterprise hosting and services and takes automation to a next level.

MachPanel Tool for Directory Synchronization

The MachPanel Tool for Directory Synchronization offers fast-paced AD Sync feature which saves you time and efforts to keep the Active Directory sync-ed at all times. It is equipped with AI based features. It offers same Sign-On benefits which makes working across multiple platforms and On-premise active directory synchronization with cloud hosted active directory along with ADSync Usage Report per Organization.

Uniformity is built-in within MachPanel since all modules are available under one roof and have an interconnection with each other. One can have complete control over all of the services via single control panel alongside having full command over business operations like billing, management, helpdesk and monitoring etc. Precisely, MachPanel is an All-in-One cloud automation solution that can take your business to new heights of cloud!

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Live broadcasts are very beneficial for businesses where ongoing events are a commonplace. Hosting live events facilitate the marketing aspects of business. People get to know more about your products and services and the customers can benefit from useful information regarding their subscribed services.

What is a Microsoft Teams Channel?

Since team is group of people who come together to get some work done, this can be a task, project, or maintenance of whole system, it is made up of Channels. Channels are your interactions with your teammates which includes conversations on a specific topic, project or department. Your teammates actually get the work done on a dedicated channel. You can have audio and video conversations, share files, add apps and much more to get the project completed.

How to broadcast live event for Microsoft Teams all members

For a Live event broadcast where you wish to tag Microsoft teams all members via a suitable Microsoft Teams channel, it is necessary to have an Office 365 License. Then, you can go for the Live event in a few clicks as described in following steps:

• Go to Meeting Tab and press “New Meeting”
• From the drop-down menu choose the option New Live Event
• Every Live event has to have some information related to the event, you need to fill up the form and mention the Title of the event, Location of the event and a few other details related to the event
• There is an option to set your event to be public to be shared with audience outside of your office 365 tenant or you can make it private to be shared with only Microsoft Teams all members
• Generate link to your live event as a presenter and share the link so that the audience can join your event.

A Live event can bring big business and be beneficial for in-house Microsoft Teams all members for a progressive project and, in a broader sense, cloud business.

ALSO READ: A look into Upgrading from Skype4B Online to Microsoft Teams

MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSPs and Microsoft Skype4B

MachPanel is a robust cloud automation platform where all your business needs are found in a unified manner. With this modern Control Panel, CSPs can automate their entire business lifecycle and manage lifecycle of their Direct or Indirect Partners. With this, CSPs are empowered to Showcase Bundle & Sell their products and Own & Control the billing. With a Hybrid Marketplace and other features like Complete Usage Calculations bird eye view, Packaging and Bundling with customized Margins, Automated subscription & Recurring Billing with Payment Processing and many other features, MachPanel is the number one choice for CSPs globally. CSPs can resell Microsoft Skype for Business Online services under MachPanel CSP program. Since Skype4B is the next up successor of Teams, CSPs opt to offer Skype for Business Services Online to stay in line with the current trends in cloud computing space.

MachPanel also provides Microsoft Skype for Business Server On-premises services. It has gained popularity all over the business space for Business Communication. MachPanel offers Hosted Skype for Business features like Enterprise Voice, Billing, Reporting, Dial Plans, Response Groups, Phone Numbers and Persistent Chat. It is a complete Enterprise Voice Solution. It offers centralized management for Providers, Resellers and Customers.

Get MachPanel for streamlined cloud business automation and stay ahead of the curve in the cloud space.

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People who prefer to do things on their own opt for the first option: DIY cloud management, Nevertheless, there comes many phases where expert opinion or assistance is required and that makes them take the second option: Hire a Cloud Expert.

What is a Managed Cloud Service Provider?

A managed cloud provider allows its customers to opt for IT services that they wish to manage on their own and the rest of the services are left to the Service Provider to be managed. Services like infrastructure management and application level support are included in a Managed cloud service. Engineers at Managed Cloud Providers’ team are able to cater for networking and storage requirements, operating systems issues, more complex scenarios like tools and apps that are run on top of the basic or complex infrastructure.

Services of a Managed Cloud Service Provider

There are many technical and non-technical services provided by a managed cloud provider like DNS management, Architecture guidance, System monitoring, alerting, and reporting, A single point of contact for support, Security and compliance management, Performance testing and tuning, Database administration, System administration and operations (Ops), Developer support and training, Proactive communications and 24×7 support, Backup and disaster recovery solutions.

NextGen V/s Conventional Managed Service Providers

Enterprises needs evolve with more cloud adoptions and the need for agility and flexibility in combination with cost-effective solutions is ever-growing. Traditional managed service providers are not able to keep up the pace with the growing trends of cloud computing space. This leads to an evolution of next generation cloud providers that offer migration support with updates on daily basis, offer customization services and multi-cloud technologies.

MachPanel Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform that brings together the needs of the NextGen businesses in a user-friendly manner. With easy automation and end-to-end service delivery and lifecycle management, MachPanel is #1 choice of CSPs who opt for cloud business automation. It supports Multi-tenancy and Segregation for Hosted Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 & SharePoint 2019, Work Folders Hosting (Microsoft Sync Share) Integration, Advanced Exchange Database Management to support database administrative operations and Exchange RBAC role group management and a secure environment with Google Authenticator for 2 Factor authentications. It offers a Hybrid Cloud Marketplace and robust Reporting mechanism for better analysis.

Stick around for more updates on cloud computing space and get your hands on MachPanel to get your business scaled in the right direction.

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CSPs now have to provide confirmation regarding the acceptance of MCA from the customers, before CSPs and resellers can place order of Microsoft Products and Services.

The new process

In the Partner dashboard, there exists a new addition to assist Microsoft Partners to better comply with new requirements. A Partner Center API is introduced along with the dashboard to provide information to partners. Partners have been required to adhere to confirmation from customer about the acceptance of this agreement on all transactions. Microsoft validates the format of emails after which the partner needs to correct the information if any piece of information is found incorrect.

The responsibility of customers accepting the Microsoft Cloud Agreement lies with the Microsoft Partner and also should keep a record of it. API users’ deadline for the compliance of these requirements has increased. It is now March 22, 2019. After this date, whenever a CSP Partner initiates any kind of transaction for customers (Existing or new) using Partner Center API, the information regarding customer information shall be checked before the transaction proceeds.

Since august 2018, there have been two methods to assist Partners: The Partner Center API and Partner Center Dashboard. In the former method, the acceptance is confirmed programmatically whereas in latter case, customer acceptance is confirmed manually.

When customers buy from an indirect reseller, they are buying the products that are developed by Microsoft, not the indirect seller. Hence, Microsoft expects the customers to accept the Microsoft Cloud Agreement set forth by Microsoft. It is for all the consumers who consume Microsoft Products.

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MachPanel – Your gateway to Cloud Business Success

The popular Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform – MachPanel, provides excellent services in Cloud Business Automation. It is the favorite control panel of Hosters which has also gained popularity in the Telco industry. MachPanel offers various automation modules for your business-like SharePoint, Exchange, Skype for Business, Hyper-V, turnkey solution deployments and much more. It provides SaaS and IaaS to CSPs for the growth of their business.

So, all you CSPs out there grab this opportunity to make MachPanel automate your business for better growth and scalability.

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