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Legacy Benefits Questions
Some questions around Legacy versus new Solutions Partner Designations
Important Update: Partner support confirmed there is a current issue where benefits are lost when you purchase the Legacy Gold Benefits. You will lose all current Azure gold consumption allocation benefits and as well as any other prior gold benefits instead of simply being added side by side like previous offers.
1. How do you find the snapshot of competencies as of 30th September 2022 through the partner portal? I just want to make sure this is accurate and there should be a way to confirm through the portal.
Please do NOT discuss my specific competencies and benefits in this thread. These answers are meant to benefit the community and the guidelines/feedback are most important.
2. It mentions you cannot get incremental benefits with the new Solutions Partner Designations if you purchase the legacy benefits option. Just confirming if this is true since that would be a deterrent from achieving multiple designations.
Answer: Confirmed
3. If you purchase the legacy benefits do you have to pay again when you get a Solutions Partner Designation? This was odd in the past when originally going Silver to Gold within a year as the payments stacked instead of being offset from the prior.
Answer: You do not have to pay again if you obtain Solutions Partner Designations if you pay for legacy Gold benefits. Source https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/introduction-to-pcs
4. I do see you can get a refund for purchasing the legacy benefits within 30 days if the benefits are not consumed. I want to make sure this is true in case the benefits purchased do not turn out to be the benefits wanted.
Answer: These terms are in the agreement as Instruction #3 when you purchase legacy Gold benefits.
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moda_888 Thank you for your post, tagging Kim_Doucette in case she can answer or find someone to answer these questions for you.
LicensingConcierge1 would this fit better in one of your discussion boards? Can you provide any guidence here? Thank you!
So I went ahead and purchased this since it said it was refundable within 30 days.
IMPORTANT
If you did not use all of your last year's benefits yet but they have not expired they all disappear when you purchase the offer and are replaced by the analogous new ones.
Luckily I used one of the cloud benefits and took screenshots just prior to purchasing but the rest look like they are gone although there is a reference at the top of the page mentioning there are benefits that need to be activated prior to the older expiration date. Perhaps this is a display issue.
Cloud Benefits for Azure show again with a new expiration date but show as REDEEMED. This may be a display issue as you can go into the selection and it takes you through the steps. I will find out when my original allocation is consumed or expired to see if I can extend with the new allocation.
This display has potential ramifications since the terms of potential refund are based on not using benefits from the offer. If the Azure benefit does automatically apply then technically you will no longer be able to get a refund without potentially a lot of back and forth with support.
I will provide an update at a later time when I have more information.
