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AEP - Retirement Notification

Academic License Sales - Partner Announcement

The Authorized Education Partner (AEP) program, where partners get certified via training to transact Academic licenses to education customers is being discontinued as of October 1, 2019. This coincides with the distribution of the updated Microsoft Partner Agreements (MPA) being sent to partners and distributors for signature on the same day.


As a result of this retirement, the AEP certification is no longer required for resellers; Distributors will no longer need to check for reseller AEP credentials.

All resellers and distributors are still required to confirm customer eligibility as defined by the Microsoft Qualified Education Users documentation,
for academic purchases. They may ONLY transact academically-priced licenses to Academic institutions as defined in the documentation.

For more details on the AEP retirement and for an update on the fundamentals of reselling academic licenses, please refer to this deck.

For further assistance, email us at NAITSupport


NOTE : Chinese partners will continue with the AEP program

Welcome to the Authorized Education Partner Program

The Authorized Education Partner program

The Microsoft® Authorized Education Partner program authorizes partners to purchase and resell academic priced Microsoft offers and products to Qualified Educational Users (QEUs). Distributors will only accept orders from partners that are AEPs. To join or renew your AEP Certification, follow these guided steps as part of the registration process:

  • Validate your MPN ID
  • Download and study the AEP training material
  • Complete the test module
  • Fill out the application form, review and accept Terms and Conditions
  • Review the AEP Program Guide
Join FAQ Registration Guide

Cloud Solution Provider in education (CSP)

Cloud Solution Providers requesting to access the Microsoft Education offers catalog in Partner Center, need to open a service request from the Partner Center Dashboard. This step will no longer be necessary after November 30, 2019. As a reminder to all resellers of Academic-priced offers and products, the customer MUST be eligible as a Qualified Educational Users (QEU) in order to receive the special academic price.


  • From the Dashboard menu, select: Overview, Partner account, View your partner profile
  • In Partner profile, under Program info, look for Reseller qualifications, Education is listed there
  • If you do not see Education in Reseller qualifications, you have not yet been authorized to purchase any special offers; open a Partner support request

Benefits of Becoming an Authorized Education Partner

As an AEP you will receive resources specifically designed to help you succeed in the education market including:

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A Microsoft AEP badge to use in promotional materials, based on MPN competencies

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A Microsoft AEP certificate and authorization number acknowledging your status

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Academic licensing offers from distributors; incentives; customer referrals; listing in AEP directory

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Access to the exclusive Yammer community, webinars, trainings and specialized communication

Register

AEP and CSP resellers

  • Register your company to become an AEP to resell Microsoft Academic product licenses to qualified education customers.
  • CSP resellers wishing to transact education offers also need to register with this option.
  • Gain exclusive access to Yammer community, webinars, trainings and specialized communication.
Register

Distributors

  • Only for Distributors who sell to AEPs and need to access the AEP database to validate resellers status.
  • Gain exclusive access to Yammer community, webinars, trainings and specialized communication.
Register

All other education partners

  • Gain exclusive access to Yammer community, webinars, trainings and specialized communication.
Register

Qualified Educational User (QEU)

Access the QEU definition for your region at the Microsoft Licensing Terms and Documentation site. It is the responsibility of the AEP to validate that the customer is a QEU prior to making an academic volume licensing offer.

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New AEP and CSP resellers

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Yammer

Join the conversation with other partners and Microsoft on our Yammer private community.

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HIGHER EDUCATION MARKET INSIGHTS I'm going to share sharing a weekly update on the university sector market news. Not at all Microsoft-centric, but instead news from around the sector that might come up in your customer conversations, or help you spot a previously unknown market opportunity. Tell me if you find it useful. Here's this week's: International student numbers are higher than previously reported By comparing Dept of Ed figures and visa figures, the headline rate of growth in international students is actually higher than people have previously reported. And some universities have more than doubled their number of international students in just 3 years. The Go8 universities, high up in the rankings, are growing rapidly (Uni Syd, Monash, Uni Melb & UNSW all have more than 20,000 international students) and growth over 50%. And there are some regional universities that are growing rapidly too – CSU & SCU have both more than doubled their international students Report reveals s
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Alison Whitehead Jul 13 2018 3:45AM
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If you are working with customers to show modern Office365 Education features and benefits, check out this new resource for Education users that gives the right level of detail on the rich tools for collaboration and learning in schools and beyond. https://support.office.com/en-au/education

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