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Partners react to Microsoft withdrawing Software Assurance benefits

Deployment Planning Services and training vouchers among benefits to be withdrawn from February 2020

Marian McHugh
@MarianMcHughCRN
19 September 2019

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Microsoft is "risking the wrath" of channel partners again after quietly announcing changes to its Software Assurance benefits. The vendor will scrap its Deployment Planning Services (DPS) from February...

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