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A message from Matt Ontell
Hope 2022 is off to a great start! 2021 was another tough year with the pandemic, but it was so inspiring to see the impact all of you had with your customers and within your organizations.
FastTrack and the FRP Team are excited for what 2022 has in store as we build on the successes we've had already this fiscal year. We're excited to announce new FRP exclusive programs and incentives as we continue to look to you, our leading partners, to help us forge new ground and build on new market opportunities. Please continue to let us know how we can best serve you.
We appreciate your partnership as we navigate the 2nd half of the fiscal year.
Matt Ontell, FRP Program Lead
Program News
New earning opportunity: M365 Deployment Offer
Microsoft has launched a new, limited-time offer for Microsoft 365 customers. As of November 1, 2021, Microsoft-nominated customers making a new qualifying purchase during the offer period are eligible to receive up to $50,000 in deployment services credit to be used with a FastTrack Ready Partner.
How it works
Once the approved customer makes a qualified purchase, they will receive a voucher and work with their existing FRP or be matched with a new FRP if no existing relationship exists. The customer will present the partner with the Voucher ID which will enable partners to start work and initiate the payment request.
Refer to the
knowledge article and
Yammer announcement regarding the FY22 M365 Deployment Offer.
New earning opportunity: Frontline Worker Accelerator Program
Microsoft has launched a new accelerator to drive Frontline Worker Teams Platform usage in F-SKUs. January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022, FastTrack Ready Partners and Jumpstart Partners may earn the standard CPOR incentives exclusively for paid F-SKUs.
Offer terms
- The program runs from January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022.
- Eligible SKUs: Paid Teams Platform F-SKUs (Office 365 F3, M365 F1, M365 F3). Trial and unpaid SKUs are not eligible.
- Teams Platform for Frontline must be claimed by participating partners on or before June 30, 2022.
- Partners will be able to continue to drive usage through the end of the Microsoft fiscal year, June 30, 2022.
Refer to the
FRP T&C's,
blog post and
knowledge article for additional details.
New earning opportunity: Windows 11 Deployment Offer
Microsoft has launched a new program to drive Windows 11 Technical Assessments and Pilot deployments with eligible commercial customers. From January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022, FastTrack Ready Partners and Jumpstart Partners may earn up to $10,000 per engagement for delivering Windows 11 technical assessments and pilot deployments with eligible customers.
More details will be announced in Yammer this week.
Events and Training
We want to hear from you: FRP Virtual Connections Event
If you haven’t already, please
Save the Date for the FRP Virtual Connections Event. Event registration and agenda will become available in the coming weeks. Stay tuned into
FRP Yammer for additional announcements.
- February 8-9, 2022: Connections: Americas and EMEA – Save the date
- February 15-16*, 2022: Connections: Asia – Save the date (*February 16-17 Asia time zones)
We want to hear from you. What are you looking forward to? What topics are most interesting to you? Do you have a song request for DJ Stephanie? Survey:
FRP Connections Event Survey.
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP): Service side auto-labeling training
Join us as we kick off a brand-new year and highlight updates to our improved auto-labeling features and best practices on how you can get started with auto-labeling in your organization. We will end with a Q&A session to address any questions or concerns about configuring, simulating, or enforcing an auto-labeling policy.
Intended Audience: Technical Sales; Architects and Consultants
Register today:
Upcoming events calendar
Click on the links below to register for upcoming events.
FRP-specific events – FRP Readiness Calendar
- January 11, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: FRP Academy "Ask Me Anything" Series: Foundations 101 and 102
- January 12, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: FRP Academy "Ask Me Anything" Series: Foundations 103
- January 13, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: FRP Academy "Ask Me Anything" Series: Foundations 104
- January 18, 2022, 11:00 AM PT: FY22 January FastTrack Ready Partner Community Call [Americas]
- January 18, 2022, 7:00 PM PT: FY22 January FastTrack Ready Partner Community Call [Asia]
- January 19, 2022, 6:00 AM PT: FY22 January FastTrack Ready Partner Community Call [EMEA]
- January 20, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: FY22 Q3 OSU-M365 and FRP Office Hours [Option 1]
- January 20, 2022, 7:00 PM PT: FY22 Q3 OSU-M365 and FRP Office Hours [Option 2]
- February 2, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: FY22 Q3 Migrations Office Hours [Option 1]
- February 2, 2022, 7:00 PM PT: FY22 Q3 Migrations Office Hours [Option 2]
- February 8-9, 2022: FRP Virtual Connections Event [Americas, EMEA] – Save the date
- February 15-16, 2022: FRP Virtual Connections Event [Asia] – Save the date
Other recommended events – M365 Readiness Calendar
- January 11, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: Teams Essentials Sales and Technical Readiness Series – How to Build a Profitable Microsoft Teams Practice
- January 12, 2022, 5:00 PM PT: Teams Essentials Sales and Technical Readiness Series – How to Build a Profitable Microsoft Teams Practice-APAC
- January 18, 2022, 7:00 AM PT: Microsoft 365 ISV Showcase: Collaborative Apps in Microsoft Teams
- January 18, 2022, 6:30 PM PT: Microsoft Viva Partner Technical Bootcamp Day 1 (Asia)
- January 19, 2022, 6:30 PM PT: Microsoft Viva Partner Technical Bootcamp Day 2 (Asia)
- January 25, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: MIP Service side auto-labeling training [Option 1]
- January 25, 2022, 7:00 PM PT: MIP Service side auto-labeling training [Option 2]
- January 27, 2022, 8:00 AM PT: January Conversation Series with Customer Engineering: Viva Topics
- February 2, 2022, 9:00 AM PT: What’s next in Security from Microsoft
- February 9-10, 2022: Enable Frontline Partner Bootcamp
Available on-demand
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Referrals
OSU/CPOR - Online Services Usage/Claim Partner of Record
Product Workloads - features asks, suggestions
FastTrack Program and FT Benefit
FRP Program Tools and Reporting
Workload News
Expanded Security, Compliance, Identity and Endpoint Management (SCIM) resources
To support your SCIM practices, we are working to update and expand the resources available to FRPs. Check out the newly published content:
Documentation Updates
Terms and Conditions
Download the Terms and Conditions for current program details.
The Terms and Conditions have been refreshed, please take time to read the entire document.
In Exhibit A, Section 3: Incentives, three new incentives have been added to the FRP-only incentive section:
- Frontline Worker (FLW) Accelerator Program
- Microsoft 365 Deployment Offer Voucher
- Windows 11 Deployment Incentive Program
FastTrack Playbook
Visit the Playbook Change Log for a complete list of updates.
Addition of Unified Data Loss Prevention (DLP) under MIP
To align DLP to MIP updated guidance to Fast Track Engineers is now available recommending the M365 Compliance Overview and Compliance Manager Workshop are delivered along with DLP guidance.
FE Action: Review updates to Task 3748, Task 4121, and Task 4122.
Planned for January release:
- The Wizards as the Benefit guidance will be migrated from the Partner Community Portal Knowledge Base into the standard Playbook.
- Updated Employee Experience guidance
- New Frontline Worker Guidance
Service Description
Access the FastTrack Service Description.
No updates for this iteration.
