Microsoft-led Legacy to NCE Migration
- Vaso Zanidou
What is this
Microsoft will be migrating legacy commercial license-based subscriptions to new commerce at the end of each subscription’s term starting January 11, 2024.
Microsoft-led Migration important points
Microsoft will be migrating legacy commercial license-based subscriptions to new commerce at the end of each subscription’s term, starting January 11, 2024
Microsoft-led migrations include only the subscriptions that are active
Subscriptions that don't migrate, renew but will eventually be retired or migrated later, depending on the circumstances.
If the base subscription has migratable add-ons, both the base subscription and addon subscriptions are migrated at the same time
After migration, partners have 168 hrs to reduce seats or cancel the new subscription.
The migration from legacy to new commerce resets the term to annual, so after migration the new commerce subscription is annual
3yr term Legacy subs are also be included in the migration to 3yr NCE terms
A new commerce promotion is applied to the created new commerce subscription
You can schedule a migration through the Partner Center. Microsoft detects existing scheduled migrations created by the partner but not yet executed and doesn’t create a Microsoft-led migration.
Microsoft shared a list of subscriptions to be migrated.
👉 Visit your Microsoft Partner Center → Customers/Microsoft NCE Migrations
Microsoft-led Migration Process
Microsoft-led migration is created on the last day of the legacy subscription term, and is executed the day after the legacy subscription term ends
Migration usually takes from zero to six hours. In some cases, can take up to 72 hours
The legacy subscription is set to a suspended state when the migration begins.
During the period where the legacy subscription is suspended, no service loss occurs.
The start of billing for the NCE subscription aligns with the date the New commerce subscription was created if Microsoft successfully completes migration.
No charges are made for the period where the legacy subscription was suspended without a corresponding NCE subscription created.
The interworks.cloud solution
With our new automation, you will be able to keep the subscriptions' data aligned with your Microsoft Partner Center, while minimizing workload and operations burden 😎
Our development team has been hard at work crafting a feature that we believe will make this transition as seamless as possible. Here are a few sneak peeks into what you can expect:
Once Migration is successfully completed by Microsoft, our platform will automatically Cancel the Legacy Subscription.
The newly created NCE subscription will be automatically imported in your BSS from your Partner Center.
If a Migration fails, the Legacy Subscription will remain active until further updates from Microsoft.
What to be careful with
Be careful on the new annual term. If you need to avoid the annual term, you should migrate before the legacy subscriptions reach end of term
Be mindful on the price you charge (make sure that all the NCE offerings are assigned to Pricelists in your BSS or have a pricing rule, if you are working with the Standard Edition for Resellers)
Educate/ Prepare your customers (pricing & new cancellation rules)
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Microsoft Documentation
Partner Center announcements - Partner Center announcements
Migrate subscriptions to new commerce - Partner Center
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