Indirect Resellers Purchasing Microsoft 365 Services for Their Own Use

Microsoft has limited the possibilities for the Indirect Resellers to purchase Microsoft 365 Services through the CSP channel for their own use.

According to Microsoft, an Indirect Reseller may have the following possibilities to purchase Microsoft services for their own use:

1. Direct purchase from Microsoft

2. Working with a CSP partner as end-customer. Please keep in mind that when a partner is working with an Indirect Provider, only one kind of relationship may be established. A partner cannot be an end-customer and an Indirect Reseller for the same Indirect Provider. In case a partner likes to work with the same Indirect Provider, we recommend creating/using another tenant as an end-customer tenant.

3. Partners may have some benefits via ActionPack https://partner.microsoft.com/en-au/partnership/action-pack. For details, they'd have to contact the MPN Team via Partner Center by themselves.

Some discussions on this topic can also be found in the Microsoft Partner Community:
https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/Feedback-Support-Discussions/Where-should-a-Direct-CSP-Provider-purchase-their-own-internal/m-p/60267/highlight/true

CSP Partners/Indirect Resellers have the possibility to purchase Microsoft 365 Services outside of the CSP program through their Microsoft 365 Admin Center of the tenant, where the licenses need to be provisioned for: