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Strategic agreements with NVIDIA and IGEL plus a new edition of CloudJumper’s Cloud Workspace Management Suite all seek to make deploying and administering Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop platform, in particular, simpler for channel pros.

Drawing on artificial intelligence and a threat intelligence engine informed by input from 600 million inboxes, the system can now identify malicious messages and delete them across all the domains an MSP protects without manual assistance.

In his new post, Andrew Pryfogle (pictured) is responsible for helping MSPs add unified communications and SD-WAN solutions while helping telco agents roll out productivity, backup, and security offerings.

The 30 pre-vetted solutions in the catalog cover use cases in strategic vertical industries. The enablement program is designed to help 200 partners get a revenue producing IoT solution to market in 90 days.

The abrupt about-face comes just days after Microsoft announced the revisions to partner program benefits and requirements, and in response to loud, widespread criticism from members.

According to channel chief Gavriella Schuster (pictured), the vast size and rapid growth of Microsoft’s partner program made the company’s recently announced and hugely unpopular restricted internal use rights for software, support incident cutbacks, and higher competency thresholds inevitable.

The new message types, delivery options, and administrative features unveiled today are designed to add further fuel to strong adoption of the Slack competitor, which Microsoft calls a major potential revenue source for partners.

The new functionality lets users transfer all of the content in a Teams instance, including channels, conversations, permissions, and files, across Office 365 tenants.

Though overall financial results in the company’s most recent fiscal quarter left many investors disappointed, sales through the channel are up by double digits in key market segments, according to partner marketing executive Cheryl Cook (pictured).

The recently launched SOC-as-a-service vendor aims to set itself apart in a crowded market by combining 24×7 SIEM services with pre-configured appliances that partners can install in as little as an hour, according to COO Kristian Wright (pictured).