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FastTrack Ready Partners "Heads Up" June 28, 2021

Heads Up FastTrack Ready Partners
June 28, 2021
New Partner Support tool, June compliance emails, FRP Dashboard updates, FY22 FRP Program Launch Event


Awareness Only

Program News

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Partner Support tool live as of June 25, 2021

We are pleased to announce the new Partner Support tool is now live.

Please submit all questions, access requests, issues, program bugs, and requests to the Support Teams at https://aka.ms/FRPHelp.

  • Easy ticket submission and automatic ticket number creation
  • Communicate with Support teams and track status in one place
  • Attach documents to share additional information

A guide to use the new tool can be found at https://aka.ms/frpsupport.

Please note that
FRPHelp@microsoft.com is retiring on July 9, 2021. Any existing open cases with FRPHelp that have not been resolved by July 9, will have Partner Support cases opened by the Support teams.


Follow the conversation on Yammer: Partner Support Tool Live.

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May 2021 FRP Statements are available to be downloaded

Earlier this month it was not possible to download May 2021 FRP Statements. The issue has been resolved and May Statements are now available for download

Refer to the FRP Incentive Statement Summary by workload for clarity on what to expect in the May Statement.

Refer to the blog post.

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Awareness: June compliance emails sent on June 22, 2021

The June compliance email, indicating partner compliance or noncompliance, was sent on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. If primary contacts do not see an email, please search for an email from the FastTrack Ready Partner Program, M365-frp@microsoft.com.

Note: The June compliance email covers performance metrics from June 1, 2020 through May 31, 2021, and data health metrics covers May 1 – 31, 2021.

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FRP Dashboard update: MCAS and MDI data is available in the Data Health tab

Effective June 15, 2021, the FRP Dashboard > Data Health tab includes MCAS and MDI data. The data will be included in the compliance emails beginning July 2021.

Call to action:

Refer to the blog post.

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Discontinued FTOP field: Engagement Scenario

No partner action is expected or necessary.

Incentive calculations have no dependency on the Engagement Scenario field in FTOP. OSU automation automatically populates the field when an approved CPOR claim assignment is made in FTOP.

The field remains visible, but partners should discontinue manual efforts to maintain.

Refer to the blog post.

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Opportunity to provide feedback to the FastTrack Migration Team

The FastTrack Migration Team is very interested in your feedback. Please take five minutes to respond to a survey about the FastTrack Migration Benefit.

Link: Partner FastTrack Migration Benefit Adoption Survey

Follow the conversation on Yammer: Opportunity to provide feedback to the FastTrack Migration team.

Workload News

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Intune support changes

Intune moving to support macOS 10.15 and later with the release of macOS 12

  • With Apple's expected release of macOS 12 Monterey in the fall of 2021, Microsoft Intune, the Company Portal app and the Intune MDM agent will be moving to support macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and higher shortly after the release.
  • To find out how this will affect your organization and what you need to do to prepare, refer to the Yammer announcement Intune moving to support macOS 10.15 and later with the release of macOS 12.

Intune moving to support iOS 13/iPadOS 13 and higher later this year

Intune ending Company Portal support for unsupported versions of Windows

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Use Microsoft Endpoint Manager filters to target apps and policies to specific devices

Please reference the resources below for public preview of Microsoft Endpoint Manager filters:

Follow the conversation on Yammer: Use Microsoft Endpoint Manager filters to target apps and policies to specific devices.

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Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) portal migration training available

The first in the series of training recordings accompanying migration of MDI capabilities into the M365 Defender portal is now available and can be found in the Additional Training section of the MDI learning page. Here is a direct link to the recording.

As the migration of the MDI portal continues in FY22, we’ll be releasing accompanying training recordings quarterly. The migration will finish by the end of 2022, with decommissioning of the existing MDI portal.

You can read more about the MDI portal migration to the M365 Defender portal here.

Documentation Updates

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Terms and Conditions

Updates to the Terms and Conditions will be published June 30, 2021.

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FastTrack Playbook

Visit the Playbook Change Log for a complete list of updates.

The Remediation Checklist expiration date has been refreshed through August 30, 2021. There are no changes to the checklist, only the expiration date.

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Service Descriptions

To provide customers with additional clarity the WVD Service Description have been adjusted to reflect the updates.

Changes to the WVD Service Description are as follows:

In-Scope

  • Deploying Shared Images
  • Configuring M365 Apps for FSLogix in a native WVD environment:
    • FSLogix:
      • Agent deployment
      • Configuring Profile and/or Office containers
      • Configuring content exclusions and folder redirections for M365 Apps

Out of Scope

  • Windows Virtual Desktop infrastructure deployment
  • Creation of custom images for WVD
  • Endpoint Configuration Manager and/or MEM configuration for WVD
    • This includes the leveraging of these tools for patching/management.
  • Microsoft Defender with Windows 10 multi-session

Events and Recordings

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Save the date: FY22 FRP Program Launch Event

Our new fiscal year begins on July 1, 2021, and we are excited to share with you our FRP plans for FY22.

Save the date:

  • August 17, 2021 (Americas and EMEA)
  • August 18, 2021 (August 19 Asia)

We will discuss:

  • FastTrack priorities
  • Incentives and products
  • Program improvements
  • How to engage with MWA, PDM and FPM
  • Partner expectations, and more

Stay tuned for event time, agenda, and instructions to register.

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Upcoming events calendar

Please note that we are starting to schedule FY22 events. Keep an eye out for updates in the coming weeks.

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Now available on-demand
Click on the links below to watch events on-demand:

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