MPC Ideas

Please build a connector so we could receive new forum discusion an thread into Microsoft Team. ... View more

Various people have pointed out that our community seems to be inactive due to them not being logged in and only seeing the groups but not the number of posts. The number of posts is actually displayed as zero to them.    It would be great if we could leave the groups closed but still display the number of posts to non-members so that partners are more likely to join if they see some activity in the groups.    Thanks! ... View more

Hi,   There has been a lot of traffic on your partner community forum regarding people having lots of problems with the verification process failing and your partner support team failing to progress the workflow and also failing to maintain an effective level of response when your partners contact them regarding the process failures. There are multiple threads but this is the one I have directly contributed to and am posting this suggestion for improvement as a result of my discussions with your forum admin.   https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/Partner-Membership-Discussions/Joining-MPN-stuck-on-Employment-verification/m-p/49488#M1508   Thank you for your kind consideration.   Regards,   David MPN member for 10+ years. ... View more

Currently it is not allowed to buy O365 licenses for internal use as a CSP partner. (Sample scenario 5 in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/csp-supported-partner-relationships)   Technically there is no reason for this, so it would be great if MS would make it allowed so that we can service ourselves and affiliated companies in the same way as we are serving other customers.   ... View more

We are heavily using closed groups and also linking threads into partner communication. When a partner is clicking onto such a deep link to a thread and this thread is based in a closed group and the user is not part of that closed group the user experience is aweful - because: a) the error message is wrong  b) the user is not guided in what to resolve the problem (request group join)   This creates a lot of trouble, additional actions and low CPE. So please fix the error message and help the user in creating a join request just out of the error message as it is e.g. seen in SharePoint and other forum software.  ... View more

The list of active subscriptions contains multiple lines for the same product. You cannot distinguish between different subscription types:3 annual - annual annual - monthly monthly - monthly This is very uncomfortable. Same in API for distribution. Same in downloadable report. Enclosed a screenshot Would be better to see more detailed information directly on this screen and also in the reports. ... View more

It would be handy if it is possible to filter the list view.  If a post is read (or clicked) , I'd like it to not be visible in the list.  Either by switching a view or having a filter options. Now you can see the bold topics for unread items but I still have to navigate through all the pages to see all posts. It would also come in handy if I could group the list by topic rather than having only the latest post view. ... View more

I have been working as Microsoft partner for 8 years now and the most chalenging part is to find the right powerpoint presentation for my workshops.   For example, Cisco provide a section in partner portal with all sort of presentations (partner programs, customer facing, etc....)   It would be great to see Microsoft provide such location where we can find content with good search engine.   Aymen MAMI Technical Sales Manager RFC Tunisia ... View more

The overall page layout of this community is very inefficient. There is a tremendous amount of white space and I am scrolling and scrolling to read. The posts and response thread are especially bad. It would be appreciated if the style sheets could be revised to provide more content and less wasted space. ... View more

Hi,   The feedback I have and want to share with you is Solution Partner Certification related. Namely, at the moment required exams to become a Data&AI Solution Partner are more Azure-related than BI-related.    Within 7 different certificates which count and are scored + 2 exams which make Partners allowed to be scored there is only one related to Power BI (that is PL-300 known before as DA-100 which we were obliged to pass e.g. for Data Analytics competency we had as Gold Microsoft Partner highly specializing in BI solutions) while the rest is related to Azure.    As you can imagine, exams like AZ-104 and AZ-305 are not really close to our daily work and scope of interest while DP-500 is a new Enterprise exam highly correlating to our projects.   The main question is whether you may consider adding this DP-500 exam as an alternative to AZ-104 or at least AZ-305. Here is the description of this exam: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/dp-500   At the moment AZ-104 is the only one that allows being scored for all DA-100 and PL-300 certifications (while allowing people to pass DP-500 instead of AZ-104 would be very natural).  ... View more

I am new to this group and to my understanding, this group is there to work with you on those ideas that will help you serve your community better. I am a non-profit partner of Microsoft and now in the partner community. ITExperience is a nonprofit that is helping participants transition into the tech industry through trainings on on-demand jobs by collaboration with companies, experts in different tech skills who want to volunteer their time to give back to the community, etc.  Our emphasis is on lots of projects work hands-on and our target market is women, underrepresented communities, minorities, etc.   In order to serve this community better, this is my idea   Problem Statement A lot of people graduate from boot camps, do a lot of trainings online either self-taught or pay some huge amount to get trained, and still don't get to fill the positions out there for jobs. There are very few companies like the big techs that are ready to train a newbie. Most companies want who is ready on the first day to hit the ground running. The big tech cannot employ everyone and only very few get jobs after this trainings either due to network or pure luck.  Recruiters don't look at your resume if you don't have some years of experience in tech working in the field.  This has made transitioning slow and I am speaking from experience.   Solution  Portal Lab A Platform where people just work on projects for example participant logs into their portal lab picks up data analyst projects goes through the stages from start to completion by doing the ask- prepare the data- process it - analyse - share and act by applying insights that were shared. The participants do these projects continously, get better at it (training ground). Participants are rated based on how many projects they work on and they also have to subscribe to the platform. Participants have unique identifiers they can share on social media or employers to see the work they have done.   Experts The experts that we recruit put the projects into the portal and are rated based on successful completion of their projects, so they are in charge of participants that are enrolled, be ready to guide them through and make sure projects are completed, If possible they get income from these, creating side hustle income.   Employers They pay to access our platform, they see firsthand the projects that are being worked on, how each participant approaches the projects, able to see how the analysis was done, displayed, etc.  They can filter on candidates etc, They get the right candidate to schedule interviews just to get to know if he is a fit for their organization and not if he can do the work.   The portal ties in all entities talked about and can be done for all kinds of projects and reach can be worldwide and with remote working gaining grounds it no brainer. @DanielIkem  ... View more

Please remove outdated information from the profiles, it is not very trustworthy to see such information like ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, etc in a "modern community"! (see screenshot) ... View more

The time calculation for "when has smth been posted" is based on the timezone and not on a correct UTC difference calculations. E.g.: User A) has time zone PST set in the settings and posts at 8:00h GMT+1 (which is his browser and OS setting) and User B) has also PST set in settings, but the browser is using the correct GMT+1. Then the post is displayed as "yesterday".  The moment User B) switches to GMT+1 then it is correctly calculated. This shows that the calculation is based on the absolute time with timezone and not on UTC timing.  The attached picture with "yesterday" was taken before the one with "5 hours". P.S.: during creation of the profile the timezone should be set correctly AND the available timezones are confusing as these do not represent the default timezones of other systems, e.g. Windows. ... View more

Currently there is no opportunity that allows admins of a closed group to invite new members to the specific group. You can only invite exisiting memebers of the MPC to a group.    It would be great if there was an automated process that would allow admins to invite new members to join a specific group via link that was shared with them (without the admin approving them a second time).  ... View more

Dear Community,    We know , we have many communities groups who are already doing their business ( at lest with 1 customer ) or established or generating a revenue but we don't have any community who are just started their entrepreneur ship and registered in the partner centre as a " Microsoft Registered Partner". they are really not aware what are the next steps and guidance on how to grow the business , customers as there is no support from the Microsoft ( we have ASfP but this is only for revenue generated partners and move to next level ) until revenue generates , until obtain partner designations\points or ACM\BDM from Microsoft.    We must need this group to guide.   ... View more

Would be useful to have a plug-in in Teams with quick access to various relevant partner org information such as MPN ID, global admin contact and other most common information which is being used/ asked in different occasions.  ... View more

On the home page you see 5 topics across all communities that are new or have had a recent comment in them. However when clicking the 'View All' link after the fifth post it takes you to a long list of every recent comment. Would it not be better, and easier to navigate if this 'View All' page was grouped by topic as per the homepage so that it is not flooded with all the comments from a popular topic? Perhaps with a counter of unread comments within that topic to note how popular it is?   Many Thanks, Alex C Brewer ... View more

Hello,  I would really like to see some Communities around the SMB space.  I have a particular interest in a US based SMB Community but obviously there would be benefits to represent other regions as well.  How do we go about getting a Community launched?   Thanks,  Robb ... View more

Would you please publish this article? ... View more