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articles/lighthouse/concepts/managed-services-offers.md

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title: Managed Service offers in Azure Marketplace
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description: Offer your Azure Lighthouse management services to customers through Managed Services offers in Azure Marketplace.
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If appropriate, you can include both public and private plans in the same offer.
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> Once a plan has been published as public, you can't change it to private. To control which customers can accept your offer and delegate resources, use a private plan. With a public plan, you can't restrict availability to certain customers or even to a certain number of customers (although you can stop selling the plan completely if you choose to do so). After a customer accepts an offer, you can [remove access to a delegation](../how-to/remove-delegation.md) only if you included an **Authorization** with the **Role Definition** set to [Managed Services Registration Assignment Delete Role](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#managed-services-registration-assignment-delete-role) when you published the offer. You can also reach out to the customer and ask them to [remove your access](../how-to/view-manage-service-providers.md#remove-service-provider-offers).
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> Once a plan has been published as public, you can't change it to private. To control which customers can accept your offer and delegate resources, use a private plan. With a public plan, you can't restrict availability to certain customers or even to a certain number of customers (although you can stop selling the plan completely if you choose).
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> After a customer accepts an offer, you can [remove access to a delegation](../how-to/remove-delegation.md) only if you included an **Authorization** with the **Role Definition** set to [Managed Services Registration Assignment Delete Role](../../role-based-access-control/built-in-roles.md#managed-services-registration-assignment-delete-role) when you published the offer. You can also reach out to the customer and ask them to [remove your access](../how-to/view-manage-service-providers.md#remove-service-provider-offers).
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## Publish Managed Service offers
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articles/lighthouse/how-to/publish-managed-services-offers.md

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title: Publish a Managed Service offer to Azure Marketplace
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description: Learn how to publish a Managed Service offer that onboards customers to Azure Lighthouse.
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## Publishing requirements
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You must have a valid [account in Partner Center](/partner-center/marketplace/create-account) to create and publish offers. If you don't have an account already, the [sign-up process](https://aka.ms/joinmarketplace) will lead you through the steps of creating an account in Partner Center and enrolling in the commercial marketplace program.
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You must have a valid [commercial marketplace account in Partner Center](/partner-center/marketplace/create-account) to create and publish offers. If you don't have an account already, the [sign-up process](https://aka.ms/joinmarketplace) will lead you through the steps of creating an account in Partner Center and enrolling in the commercial marketplace program.
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Per the [Managed Service offer certification requirements](/legal/marketplace/certification-policies#700-managed-services), you must have a [Silver or Gold Cloud Platform competency level](/partner-center/learn-about-competencies) or be an [Azure Expert MSP](https://partner.microsoft.com/membership/azure-expert-msp) in order to publish a Managed Service offer.
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Per the [Managed Service offer certification requirements](/legal/marketplace/certification-policies#700-managed-services), you must have [Solutions Partner designation](/partner-center/partner-capability-score) for Infrastructure (Azure) or Security in order to publish a Managed Service offer.
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If you don't want to publish an offer to Azure Marketplace, or if you don't meet all the requirements, you can [onboard customers manually by using Azure Resource Manager templates](onboard-customer.md).
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The following table can help determine whether to onboard customers by publishing a Managed Service offer or by using Azure Resource Manager templates.
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|**Consideration** |**Managed Service offer** |**ARM templates** |
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|Requires [Partner Center account](/partner-center/marketplace/create-account) |Yes |No |
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|Requires [Silver or Gold Cloud Platform competency level](/partner-center/learn-about-competencies) or [Azure Expert MSP](https://partner.microsoft.com/membership/azure-expert-msp) |Yes |No |
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|Requires [commercial marketplace account in Partner Center](/partner-center/marketplace/create-account) |Yes |No |
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|Requires [Solutions Partner designation](/partner-center/partner-capability-score) for Infrastructure (Azure) or Security |Yes |No |
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|Available to new customers through Azure Marketplace |Yes |No |
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|Can limit offer to specific customers |Yes (only with private plans, which can't be used with subscriptions established through a reseller of the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program) |Yes |
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|Can [automatically connect customers to your CRM system](/partner-center/marketplace/plan-managed-service-offer#customer-leads) |Yes |No |
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> Each plan in a Managed Service offer includes a **Manifest Details** section, where you define the Microsoft Entra entities in your tenant that will have access to the delegated resource groups and/or subscriptions for customers who purchase that plan. It's important to be aware that any group (or user or service principal) that you include will have the same permissions for every customer who purchases the plan. To assign different groups to work with each customer, you can publish a separate [private plan](/partner-center/marketplace/private-plans) that is exclusive to each customer. These private plans are not supported with subscriptions established through a reseller of the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
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> Each plan in a Managed Service offer includes a **Manifest Details** section, where you define the Microsoft Entra entities in your tenant that will have access to the delegated resource groups and/or subscriptions for customers who purchase that plan. It's important to be aware that any group (or user or service principal) that you include will have the same permissions for every customer who purchases the plan.
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> To assign different groups to work with each customer, you can publish a separate [private plan](/partner-center/marketplace/private-plans) that is exclusive to each customer. These private plans are not supported with subscriptions established through a reseller of the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
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