Microsoft Partners Beware: Action Pack To Be Retired in 2025

Microsoft is to discontinue the Microsoft Action Pack and Microsoft Learning Pack on January 21, 2025, sending partners off to potentially pricier and cloudier options. From a report: The Action Pack and Learning Pack, alongside Silver or Gold Membership, gave Microsoft partners access to many on-premises licenses for the company's software. The company's recommended replacements, Partner Success Core Benefits and Partner Success Expanded, abandon those benefits in favor of cloud services. According to Microsoft, it is "evolving the partner benefits offerings to provide partners with the tools and support they need to continue to lead the way in the shifting tech landscape." Or cutting back on some things in favor of others. After all, it would never do to have all that software running on-premises when Microsoft has a perfectly good cloud ready to take on partner workloads. A Register reader affected by the change told us: "The first impact for us will be cost. We'll need to go from Action Pack ($515 + VAT) to Partner Success Core ($970 + VAT). Secondly, the benefits appear to have moved all online. "That's not a problem for day-to-day operations but it will make it harder when trying to recreate a customer environment with legacy software."

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