I am looking for help with completing the process for signing my company up as a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner.

I have been directed to https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/partnership, where I select “Become a Partner”.

I go through the process as instructed but hit a dead end when I arrive at the “Join a program…” page. Note that this page offers only two options (Bethesda Partner Program, Windows and Xbox), neither of which is appropriate for me and both of which I am not eligible to join (even if I wanted to).

For the program for which I am interested (Microsoft AI Cloud Partner) the page says “…Sign in again using your work account.” So it may be that the site does not recognize my account as a work account. Unfortunately, the instructions provided for creating a work account (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/mpn-overview and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/intro-to-cloud-partner-program-membership) direct me back to the partner page at the beginning of this post. So I am stuck in an infinite loop.

I have reached out to partner support, Azure support and Azure sales. Everyone directs me to the same above referenced partner page and/or advises me to log a support request. When I did the latter I received a response with a link to the same partner page.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance beyond a link to the partner page that is not working for me. I acknowledge that the root cause MAY be my own user error. But a few minutes with a knowledgable guide would be a lot more productive than many hours of detective work.

​I am looking for help with completing the process for signing my company up as a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner. I have been directed to https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/partnership, where I select “Become a Partner”. I go through the process as instructed but hit a dead end when I arrive at the “Join a program…” page. Note that this page offers only two options (Bethesda Partner Program, Windows and Xbox), neither of which is appropriate for me and both of which I am not eligible to join (even if I wanted to). For the program for which I am interested (Microsoft AI Cloud Partner) the page says “…Sign in again using your work account.” So it may be that the site does not recognize my account as a work account. Unfortunately, the instructions provided for creating a work account (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/mpn-overview and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/intro-to-cloud-partner-program-membership) direct me back to the partner page at the beginning of this post. So I am stuck in an infinite loop. I have reached out to partner support, Azure support and Azure sales. Everyone directs me to the same above referenced partner page and/or advises me to log a support request. When I did the latter I received a response with a link to the same partner page. I would greatly appreciate any guidance beyond a link to the partner page that is not working for me. I acknowledge that the root cause MAY be my own user error. But a few minutes with a knowledgable guide would be a lot more productive than many hours of detective work.  Read More

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