If you work for a Microsoft partner then there\u2019s a good chance that you\u2019ve heard of CSP. This is a new method for reselling subscription services such as Office 365, CRM Online, EMS, and Azure (and more) instead of direct billing (by Microsoft) or Open (resold) licensing agreements. The benefit of CSP is that:<\/p>\n
My employers (MicroWarehouse Ltd<\/a> in Ireland) are a Type 2 CSP reseller, meaning that we distribute CSP to \u201cbreadth\u201d partners that do not have a CSP agreement. They, in turn, add a margin and sell CSP services to their customers. We\u2019re fully on-board with this service, selling services like Office 365 and EMS.<\/p>\n But, I am not recommending that Azure is sold by our customers (resellers) via CSP. Why?<\/p>\n Most folks still haven\u2019t heard of or understand what ARM is. ARM is a new way for you\/Azure to deploy resources in Microsoft\u2019s cloud, and is sometimes referred to as Azure v2. Before now, we use Service Management, which is also referred to as Classic or Azure v1. The two are quite different. For example:<\/p>\n PowerShell fundamentalists and radicals will scream that techies should have enough there now, but the training I have run recently affirms my view on PowerShell. I love using PowerShell, but few outside of the conference-going community (a small percentage) have the first clue, and probably never will. The GUI is required still to make the product sell<\/strong><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n So here\u2019s the gotcha. For some reason, Microsoft decided that customers who get a subscription in CSP will only be able to use ARM. Meanwhile, customers that have direct\/trial, EA or Open subscriptions can deploy in either ARM or Service Management.<\/p>\n So, if your business currently or possibly will be using IaaS components, then I\u2019m advising that you do not acquire Azure via CSP. If you\u2019re in the SME world (less than 250 users) then stick with Azure in Open. If you\u2019re over 250 users then go EA. And partners – avoid direct billing and trials (only convert into direct billing) because there\u2019s nothing in it for you. You can start\/continue to resell other online services via CSP, but Azure is just not ready yet, and we can blame some mysterious decision making by Microsoft for that. Hopefully we’ll get feature parity between Service Management and ARM soon, and then I’ll chance my recommendation about Azure in CSP.<\/p>\n If you work for a Microsoft partner then there\u2019s a good chance that you\u2019ve heard of CSP. This is a new method for reselling subscription services such as Office 365, CRM Online, EMS, and Azure (and more) instead of direct billing (by Microsoft) or Open (resold) licensing agreements. The benefit of CSP is that: A … Continue reading “Azure in CSP”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,183],"class_list":["post-19414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-licensing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Azure Resource Manager (ARM)<\/h2>\n
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CSP and ARM<\/h2>\n