Program Updates
Microsoft Pricing Changes Take Effect
Effective July 1, Microsoft has updated global pricing and packaging updates for Microsoft 365 commercial suites. Pricing has increased across select Enterprise, Business, Frontline, and standalone SKUs, with changes applying to new customers immediately and to existing customers at their next renewal.
At the same time, Microsoft has added enhanced capabilities at no additional cost, including expanded Copilot Chat experiences, strengthened security protections like Microsoft Defender for Office, and improved IT management through Intune and related services.
Read the full announcement here.
New Process to Redeem Cloud Benefits
Microsoft has updated how partners redeem license‑based cloud benefits. They’re now activated through a guided experience in Partner Center using a $0 purchase flow, replacing key-based redemption. Benefits are tied to the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing account used to purchase partner benefits and can only be redeemed on tenants under that account.
In addition, benefit expiration is now aligned to your partner benefits package end date, not the date you redeem each benefit, and the 30‑day grace period has been removed. There’s no change to the benefits themselves.
MCAPS Start for Partners Takes Place July 22
On July 22, Microsoft is holding MCAPS Start for Partners, a no-cost, digital event designed to give you the earliest, most direct view of where Microsoft is investing and what that means for partners. Expect candid sessions covering Microsoft’s FY27 priorities, including Frontier Transformation and the move from AI pilots to scalable delivery, plus practical growth paths across co-sell, Microsoft Marketplace, incentives, and skilling.
Register here.
Promotions and Offers
Current promotions include:
Microsoft 365 Business Basic plus Copilot Business: 25% off one-year term (maximum 300 seats, expires Dec. 31, 2026)
Microsoft Copilot Business: 15% off one-year term (maximum 300 seats, expires Dec. 31, 2026)
Purview Suite for Business Premium: 50% off one-year term (first-time purchase only, expires Dec. 31, 2026)
E7: 10% off one-year term (10-seat minimum, 9,999-seat maximum, first-time purchase only, expires Dec. 31, 2026)
July Enablement Update
Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales
A new course aims to get partners ready to pitch Copilot 365 to small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients. The 5.5-hour, on-demand course helps sales professionals and sales managers articulate the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot for SMBs, learn best practices, understand CSP licensing models, and master objection handling. Sign up here.
July Partner Enablement Sessions
See our lineup of upcoming events.
Partner Enablement
- July 23: Launch Briefing
Hands-On Labs
- July 29-30: Azure Bootcamp
- August 5-6: Copilot Bootcamp
- August 12-13: Modern Workplace Bootcamp
- August 19-20: AI Bootcamp
Follow all of our events here.
AI Business Solutions Update
What Is Copilot Cowork?
Copilot Cowork is an agentic system that plans, executes, and delivers real work. Here’s what it offers:
- Execute long-running, multitask work. Add guidance anytime and work asynchronously, with checkpoints that keep you in control.
- It’s grounded in your work context and powered by the best model for the task. And it connects to the apps and systems you use every day.
- It’s secure, compliant, and observable by design and built for cost control.
Cowork stands out with:
- Work IQ
- Native app integration
- Cloud-native architecture
- Built for collaboration
- Model choice
- Security and governance
With usage-based billing, Cowork can be pay-as-you-go or paid for with Copilot credits. Offers are MACC- and CSP-eligible. Learn more.
Pax8 + Zensai Customer Enablement Promo
To help you unlock your clients’ potential, Zensai offers an AI-powered Human Success Platform that combines learning, engagement, and performance management. It can integrate directly into Microsoft 365, including Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, and Copilot. Pax8 partners who sell a net-new subscription of more than 10 licenses of Copilot Business, Copilot for Nonprofit, or Copilot Business Premium Bundle licenses are eligible to get the same amount of licenses of Zensai free for a year for their clients. This promotion has been extended for Q3, so take advantage of it now!
Microsoft 365 Copilot End Customer Training
Heads up: Pax8 is offering Copilot End Customer Training on your behalf. This helps engage your customers with hands-on Copilot training designed to spark interest and showcase real-world value.
End customer training helps you:
- Educate customers on Copilot capabilities
- Demonstrate how Copilot can transform workflows
- Drive adoption and uncover new opportunities
- Introduce Copilot Chat to your customers
- Provide demo environments of Microsoft 365 Copilot
Speak to your Pax8 rep to learn more.
Pax8 Professional Services Purview Deployment Offer
To improve your clients’ data protection and governance posture, Pax8 is offering a Purview deployment offer through our Professional Services designed to simplify and fast-track Microsoft Purview adoption. Through this offer, Pax8 will deploy and manage core data governance capabilities for partners transacting a minimum of 15 seats of the Purview Suite for Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Defender and Purview Suite for Microsoft 365 Business Premium, and the Purview Suite for E3 (formerly E5 Compliance).
Eligible partners will receive a funded Purview Data Governance implementation (valued at USD $3,000), which includes reviewing data lifecycle management, creating sensitivity labeling policies, classifying baseline data, and deploying data loss prevention (DLP) policies aligned to Microsoft best practices.
Connect with your account team to begin scoping your project!
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