A small township buys Microsoft 365 through a local partner that bills the township and helps manage the subscription. Which purchasing model is that?
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Short Explanation
When the partner writes the invoice and shepherds the cloud seats, you are in CSP land. The partner is the storefront and often the helper.
Full Explanation
A small township buying Microsoft 365 through a local partner that bills the township and helps manage the subscription is using a cloud solution provider (CSP) partner that sells and bills Microsoft cloud subscriptions. CSP is the partner-led purchase and often support relationship model.
CSP is not only an on-premises perpetual Office 2010 media kit with no cloud tenancy. It is not a direct credit-card purchase on microsoft.com with no partner involvement. It is not an Azure ExpressRoute circuit sold as a Microsoft 365 license SKU.
Exam caveat: CSP partners vary in how much managed service they provide; the defining traits are partner selling/billing of cloud subscriptions. Operational check: verify invoices come from the partner, confirm admin access relationships, and document who opens support—partner, Microsoft, or both—for township outages. In municipal Microsoft 365 fundamentals scenarios, always map the business need to the named capability, reject distractors that describe a different pillar, and verify the control in the admin portal before telling leadership the risk is closed. In municipal Microsoft 365 fundamentals scenarios, always map the business need to the named capability, reject distractors that describe a different pillar, and verify the control in the admin portal before telling leadership the risk is closed.