Azure and EMS solutions for the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program

The Cloud Solution Provider program is a licensing model for partners to sell Microsoft Cloud Services. For Azure and EMS, this means you can package your own services alongside our cloud services and manage the customer experience from billing to provisioning and support. We have consolidated a comprehensive set of business and technical IP to help you launch Azure-based solution offers in market. All those scenarios have been tested with partners and are available in CSP today.

Understanding CSP
Build your business with key scenarios for Azure and EMS
Integrate and automate
Readiness and learning resources

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Understanding CSP

Overview of Azure in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program

New to CSP? Learn about the Cloud Solution Provider program with this presentation that gives an overview of CSP in Azure, visit our basic CSP resources page to read more about the program, and learn how to get started with Azure Services with an FAQ style document.

Partner success stories


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How to make money? Implementation guides ReadinessGo to market

Infrastructure services

Hybrid IaaSHybrid IaaS business documentation Hybrid IaaS technical guides Hybrid IaaS GTM materials
Backup & Disaster Recovery Backup & Disaster Recovery business documentation Backup & Disaster Recovery technical documentationBackup & Disaster Recovery GTM materials
Application development and testing Application dev/test business documentation Application dev/test technical guides

Cloud application development

DevOps Management DevOps on Azure business documentation DevOps on Azure technical guides

Data platform and analytics

AnalyticsAnalytics business documentation Analytics technical guides
IoT IoT business documentationIoT technical documentation
Power BI Power BI business documentation Power BI technical guides
SQL Backup to Azure Blob Storage SQL Backup to Azure business documentation SQL Backup to Azure technical documentation SQL Backup to Azure GTM materials
SQL in Azure VMs SQL in Azure VMs business documentation SQL in Azure VMs technical documentation SQL in Azure VMs GTM materials
Disaster Recovery for SQL Disaster Recovery for SQL business documentation Disaster Recovery for SQL technical documentation Disaster Recovery for SQL GTM materials
Azure SQL DB Azure SQL DB business documentation Azure SQL DB technical documentation Back to top

Build your business with EMS



How to make money? Implementation guides ReadinessGo to market

Mobility and security

Device management EMM business documentationEMM technical guidesEMM Readiness materialsEMM GTM materials
Office 365 Extend O365 Extend business documentationO365 Extend technical guidesO365 Extend readiness materialsO365 Extend GTM materials
Persona management MAM business documentationMAM technical guidesMAM readiness materialsMAM GTM materials
Single sign-on IDaaS business documentationIDaaS technical guides
Multi-Factor Authentication MFA business documentationMFA technical guidesMFA readiness materialsMFA GTM materials
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Integrate and automate with CSP

Technical foundation – Azure Resource Manager

The following resources will help you take full advantage of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) when working with your CSP solutions.
What is ARM? Video 1, Video 2
ARM blog 
Inside ARM  		Why is ARM important?  
ARM templates on GitHub  
Quick start ARM templates		Azure Service REST APIs  

Managing customer accounts: CREST Commerce APIs

Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners can use the CSP Commerce REST API (CREST API) to create customer accounts, manage customer profiles in the Microsoft Commerce Platform, and purchase and manage orders and subscriptions of Microsoft products for their customers.
Intro onboarding video  
MSDN documentation  		MSDN forums 
Code samples 		FAQ

Create and manage operations on directory data and directory objects: Azure AD Graph APIs

The Azure Active Directory Graph API provides programmatic access to Azure Active Directory through REST API endpoints. Apps can use the Azure AD Graph API to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on directory data and directory objects, such as users, groups, and organizational contacts.
Documentation  Forums  Code samples

Azure rate and usage APIs

The Azure Billing APIs provide access to resource consumption and metadata information for Azure subscriptions, providing the ability to better predict and manage Azure costs.
Documentation  
Sample code 
Usage API resource definition  
Usage API scenarios  
Rate card API resource definition  
Rate card API scenarios 		Authentication Back to top

Readiness and learning resources

Learn more about Azure through our Azure Partners Readiness Catalog and get deep technical insights into CSP via our Azure CSP Virtual Training Series.