Reply to: Microsoft Action Pack....

[helloPeople]

Hello,


I am thinking on getting a new action pack for £350 only because of Office Professional Plus 2019 that can be installed on 10 computers. Apart from that all other software included are useless for me. So my question is if I decide not to renew the action pack next year do you know if the software will stop working or the key will not work if I decide to install it on another computer after the subscription expires?

Thanks

Steve

[CheeseSlice]

I have the same thing now, client I have done work for in the past wants a new SQL box in Azure but doesn't have SQL licence. I have 32 Enterprise licenses for some odd reason. Can I sell them one?

qh

Have a look at becoming a CSP. If you do it right you could get an ongoing revenue stream from it.

[radish2008]

You can't sell the licenses you acquire as part of the Action Pack membership - they are for your company to use.

If you're acting as a reseller then there's some registraton malarkey you need to go through. Start here and that should give you pointers as to what to look for that will hopefully answer your question:
Request a relationship with a customer - Partner Center | Microsoft Docs

Aren't they non commercial as well - so you can use them to evaluate but can't use them to create anything on a commercial basis ?

The first contract I ever had the guy used action pack to get his business off the ground !

I had Action Pack for about 8 years but then the Visual Studio and SQL community editions are great now and Windows 10 Pro came with the laptop. Office 365 small business edition is about £80 a year.

Steve

[quackhandle]

Thanks for that, I will have a gander.

They don't make it easy do they?

qh

[ladymuck]

I have a Silver Membership and I'm still trying to work out what I get for 1500 notes a year. I am currently in discussions with MS on this and three weeks later I am still waiting. Ever get the feeling they don't GAS?

Anywho, granted the Azure subs is good for creating POCs and general messing about, assisting with exams and the like, but they give you all this software but what is that for? I had a potential client a few years ago come and ask if I could sell them a SQL 2017 Standard license. I was informed by MPN regional support I couldn't do this. I said, okay but can you help this one time as this is a potential customer with possibly more work.

They still said no, and the customer went elsewhere. I have the same thing now, client I have done work for in the past wants a new SQL box in Azure but doesn't have SQL licence. I have 32 Enterprise licenses for some odd reason. Can I sell them one?

qh

You can't sell the licenses you acquire as part of the Action Pack membership - they are for your company to use.

If you're acting as a reseller then there's some registraton malarkey you need to go through. Start here and that should give you pointers as to what to look for that will hopefully answer your question:
Request a relationship with a customer - Partner Center | Microsoft Docs

[quackhandle]

I have a Silver Membership and I'm still trying to work out what I get for 1500 notes a year. I am currently in discussions with MS on this and three weeks later I am still waiting. Ever get the feeling they don't GAS?

Anywho, granted the Azure subs is good for creating POCs and general messing about, assisting with exams and the like, but they give you all this software but what is that for? I had a potential client a few years ago come and ask if I could sell them a SQL 2017 Standard license. I was informed by MPN regional support I couldn't do this. I said, okay but can you help this one time as this is a potential customer with possibly more work.

They still said no, and the customer went elsewhere. I have the same thing now, client I have done work for in the past wants a new SQL box in Azure but doesn't have SQL licence. I have 32 Enterprise licenses for some odd reason. Can I sell them one?

qh

[woohoo]

90 minutes of my time utterly wasted.

I used to have an old account - cant reactivate it, so created new account in the hope I can merge or copy over old account details to new one. Going round in circles, no online chat, no contact facility other than numerous irrelevant 'support' articles. Going back to my CV updates instead I think with a nice cup of tea

You can raise a support ticket, I've done this in a past when I've had an awful time renewing my subscription to the action pack. The support tickets are answered pretty fast.

But yep MS and logins (personal/work) are awful. Never had any issues with site compatibility.

[voodoo1927]

90 minutes of my time utterly wasted.

I used to have an old account - cant reactivate it, so created new account in the hope I can merge or copy over old account details to new one. Going round in circles, no online chat, no contact facility other than numerous irrelevant 'support' articles. Going back to my CV updates instead I think with a nice cup of tea

[hairymouse]

I saw your post but I don't know how to do it. I guess I'd have to create an account for you in my tenant and trust you won't go shopping...

Thanks for trying though! I don't know how to do it either or else I would suggest how. I'd bet that the account needs to have a credit card waiting to be charged when the credits run out, and it's hard to keep track of exactly how those charges are going to grow. I couldn't garuntee that I wouldn't accidently leave an instance of Synapse running at £10 an hour.

[Hobosapien]

Try IE 6.

[ladymuck]

I just re logged in to my MS partner account (its been a few years) - they dont make it easy do they. I login - then click on Action Pack to renew - and it directs me back to same page each time.
tell me they have moved on from only letting IE or Edge work on their site. Last time I did this a few years back their partner site wouldnt work with firefox. It seems they have learned nothing

Their browser compatibility is awful and I ended in some perpetual loop of nothing working. They have a new site, probably still built on the same bits of twig:

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/home

If you can get into that, you need to go to MPN down the left hand side and hopefully you will have something there that allows you to give them your money.

[voodoo1927]

I just re logged in to my MS partner account (its been a few years) - they dont make it easy do they. I login - then click on Action Pack to renew - and it directs me back to same page each time.
tell me they have moved on from only letting IE or Edge work on their site. Last time I did this a few years back their partner site wouldnt work with firefox. It seems they have learned nothing

[ladymuck]

If anyone can figure out how to sell me the Azure credit that comes with this, come take my money.
I'm thinking of buying it as well but I don't need any OS licenses and just bought an Office subscription a few months back.

I saw your post but I don't know how to do it. I guess I'd have to create an account for you in my tenant and trust you won't go shopping...

[hairymouse]

If anyone can figure out how to sell me the Azure credit that comes with this, come take my money.
I'm thinking of buying it as well but I don't need any OS licenses and just bought an Office subscription a few months back.

[Lockhouse]

Nice they're including Visual Studio again - there was a long time when it wasn't included.