Manage your benefits in Partner Center
Appropriate roles: Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program partner admin
When you join the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program [formerly Microsoft Partner Network (MPN)], and you purchase any offer, you get access to different benefits. Benefits workspace is where you can view and redeem all the benefits awarded to you as part of your membership purchases. Microsoft provides different membership options to different types of partners.
User role to manage Benefits workspace
To manage your benefits, in Partner Center, you need the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program partner admin role. Account admins in your organization can give you relevant access. For more information, see how to assign roles to users. But some of the marketing benefits are available for non Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program partner admins roles as well.
Types of benefits
Here are the different types of benefits available in Benefits workspace, depending on which offer you purchased:
- Azure Credit: Azure monthly or yearly credits available for you to use on Azure portal.
- Cloud services: Cloud benefits include license-based subscriptions that require a product key for activation including products across Modern Work, Business Applications, and Microsoft Windows online subscriptions. You can redeem these benefits on the Microsoft 365 Admin portal.
- Software benefits: Software benefits include on premise software products keys such as Dynamics CRM server, Office professional, SQL server and more.
- Developer Tools: Developer tools cover Visual Studio and GitHub benefits.
- Technical support & consultation: Get support for your on-premises products and cloud products by raising incidents with the issue details.
- Technical presales & deployment: Use technical presales and deployment services for personalized, one-to-one consultations to plan, build, and publish your Microsoft cloud services or applications.
- Marketing benefits: Marketing benefits is your gateway to Go-to-market (GTM) benefits & Marketplace benefits. These benefits give you access to exclusive sales and marketing resources that can help you accelerate your time to market, generate leads, and expand your business.
- Logo Builder: You can use Logo Builder to create a partner logo (badge), to create a partner of the Year Award logo, or to create a certified letter.
Benefits guide with different programs
To find out which benefits are available with different Microsoft programs so that you can choose the most appropriate membership for your organization, download the following resources. Selecting a link automatically downloads the resource to your default downloads folder.
- Benefits for legacy silver/gold membership
- Benefits for Microsoft Action Pack, Partner Launch, Partner Core, Partner Expanded, independent software vendor (ISV) Build and Publish, Solution Partner Designations and Specializations
To learn more about how to use these benefits, download the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Guide.