FastTrack Ready Partner Program
FRP Edge News
February 2021
Dear Partner Community,
With your tremendous support, the Edge motion continues to build up momentum! These are some major (and minor) announcements for your attention.
As always, please continue to provide your feedback through your FPMs or raise them directly to me (sachin.kini@microsoft.com)
Special Announcement Microsoft Edge Legacy End of Support Update -– Effective February 5, 2021
Reminding all our Partners to please review the details on the Edge Legacy End of Support.
Microsoft Edge is replacing Microsoft Edge Legacy with April’s Update Tuesday Windows 10 release.
In August 2020, we announced that support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application ends on March 9, 2021. After this date, Microsoft Edge Legacy will no longer receive security updates. To replace this out of support application, we are announcing that the new Microsoft Edge will be installed, and Microsoft Edge Legacy will be removed, when customers apply April's Windows 10 Update Tuesday release. This will be available on April 13, 2021.
This update will also be available as part of the optional Windows 10 March Preview release targeted for March 16.
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Edge Deployment Advisor in the M365 Admin Center
We have also made automation investments and training resources in the M365 Admin Center to accelerate deployment and adoption of Edge for your customers (https://aka.ms/setupguidance)
In addition we also recommend that Partners leverage the Remediation Checklist (https://aka.ms/PartnerRemediationChecklist (downloadable from here) and these other recommended resources:
Call to Action: IE 11 Support Deprecation & Spartan / Edge Legacy Campaign
Research tenants with high IE11 and Spartan usage to reach out about deploying Edge as a secure, single browser solution, that comes with the promise of App Assure support to their Legacy Apps.
Campaign email template:
Edge Overview & Security Brochures:
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Demos
Recognizing that it may be much more impactful to showcase scenarios we have recorded content & provided talk tracks, to demonstrate certain features of Edge/Bing whether it be security, productivity, or modern management. To help drive the impact to generate customer intent. We will continue to add more demos into this resource over time https://aka.ms/FRP-EdgeDemoVideos (PowerPoint download).
In the future we will also provide a Guide to set up a demo site in your own environment to demonstrate advanced scenarios.
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Internet Explorer Mode
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Management
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Microsoft Edge Adoption
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Management
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Microsoft Search in Bing
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Productivity
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Extensions
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Productivity
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Collections
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Productivity
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Progressive Web Applications
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Productivity
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Data Loss Prevention
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Security
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Application Guard
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Security
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Smartscreen
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Security
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Conditional Access
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Security
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Tracking Prevention
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Clarification around POE submission requirements
As a reminder - In order to qualify for Incentives
- Tenants MUST be registered via the form available at https://aka.ms/frpedgeincentive AND
- Proof of Execution submitted to within 5 days of Registration to RegPOE@microsoft.com
We have provided a POE template on the Registration if you would like to use that. Partners are welcome to use their own templates OR customize the latest POE Template from Partner Center (New POE Template Now Available in Partner Center), as long as the required information from our template is also included.
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Customer Success Stories
Share Customer Feedback & Success Stories aka.ms/frpstories (or via your FPM)
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Hungry for More?
https://aka.ms/EdgeWhatsNew
For the latest consumer features on Microsoft Edge, including Sidebar search, smart tile for Outlook, History & Tabs sync across devices (along with Favorites, Passwords & Autofill, Sleeping Tabs to maximize your computer's performance and many other features.
https://aka.ms/EdgeAtWork
For an introduction to all the empowering features on the secure browser that delivers streamlined productivity for M365 Users. Including the Daily dashboard, all your M365 Apps, integration with Microsoft Search, highest rated protection against malware and syncing across devices, to name just a few.
FastTrack App Assure Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
Dual engine advantage: Legacy sites and Microsoft Edge
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