Azure Global Support - at A Glance

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Azure Global Support At A Glance

The Azure Global Support Team Support with global presence and local touch
Centralized management of
engineers to ensure global
consistency, enable rapid
change and attain cloud
processes

24/7
support

24/7 coverage by over 250


engineers across the globe
who are connected to the
product experts for every
Azure service

Local
Languag
e

Local language support spanning


the globe ensures customers
can communicate issues to a
representative familiar with their
culture and language

Chinese Japanese
English Korean
French

Portuguese

Note: Business hours for local languages, 24x7 for English for all severities,
24x7
Japanese for sev
German
for
Spanish
A only

Guiding your Customer to the right Azure Support Option

Italian

MS internal

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Azure Global Support At A Glance


Conversation Guide Discuss the Azure Support experience with your customer
Describe the Azure experience
Cloud service delivery with less
worry
Transparency into performance
Specialized knowledge teams
provide synchronized support

Educate on Azure tools


Show customers how to check
status
Navigating billing and
subscriptions
Self help resources

Resource Guide
Resources help Azure customers feel in control
Manage
your
business

Self Help

Service
Health

Engage
Support

Choose a Support Option


Forum Support
Developer Support (nonproduction)
Standard Support
Pro-Direct Support
Premier Support

Check-in
How is the Azure
experience
Support interaction
Billing and Business
issues

Microsoft Azure Support Starter Kit MS Internal

Manage, provision and operate services at


manage.windowsazure.com,
Understand your bill and manage subscriptions at
account.windowsazure.com

Pre-Sales Support through Seal the Deal


Windows Azure Presales Team For presales and related questions

Windows Azure Training Kit - learn how to use Windows


Azure
Learn how to build and deploy WA applications by
visiting the Documentation Center
Discuss generic technical questions in forums like MSDN
and StackOverflow
Learn from what is being talked about in blogs
How Microsoft protects the customers data
Learn about service availability on the Windows Azure Service.
Refreshes every 10 minutes, historical data and service availability
sorted by region
Service Interruption Events are communicated via the Azure Service
Status Dashboard

Azure Support Offerings Overview (Scenario Based)


Azure Support FAQ
Azure Support severity and response times
Azure Global Support Incident Workflow
Azure Global Support Escalation Guide
Introduction to Azure and Azure Support for GBS roles

Monitor the Status of the Azure Platform & Services


IRIDIAS Real time service incident insights and notifications
RADIUS -portal to enable global support queue insight
Premier Support Portal
Premier Support FAQ for Azure
Premier Incident Management Reference Guide for Azure

Learn about Support options and choose a Support Plan


Azure Support FAQ
Submit support requests via the Azure Portal (exception: Premier
customers go through their established Premier channels)
In the Azure Portal choose either billing (free) or technical support
(support plan needed)

Azure FRESH Support Starter Kit


Subscribe to the Azure Global Support Monthly Update
Read the Microsoft Azure Technical Support Team Blog
Give Feedback to the Azure FRESH Team

Evangeli
ze

Under
stand

Engage

Impact
and Stay
Informed

Escalation Guide Raise the level of attention to an existing support case

Engineer.
Their support engineer is in the best
position to provide immediate assistance
and best direct their support needs.
Communicate what your customer needs
and what expectations have not been met.

Q: What if the customer needs additional help?


A: Escalate the case.

Step
Step 2
2

Step
Step 1
1

Q: What if the customer wants additional case


attention?
A: Communicate with their Support

Send an email to the engineers manager including all relevant information using this template here. If
outside of local business hours forward the email to the manager to the Escalation alias provided in the
support engineers email signature.
Additionally:
For ProDirect customers cc [email protected]
For Premier customers cc the customers TAM
For Premier North America customers can also contact Premier NA Center of Excellence (
Premier NA Azure Support) if subsequent support is needed

When to use GetHelp:


For
For any
any scenario
scenario where
where existing
existing support
support escalation
escalation channels
channels have
have been
been exhausted
exhausted and
and additional
additional attention
attention is
is required,
required, the
the submission
submission of
of a
a GetHelp
GetHelp escalation
escalation can
can be
be the
the next
next step.
step. Please
Please note
note that
that the
the
GetHelp team will require an existing support ticket as well as strong business justification for cases escalated within SLA. GetHelp can also be utilized to report gaps in (1) the support experience (2) the
2
features or (3) in the service health process post-resolution of the issue...

MS internal

Download Azure Global Support At-A-Glance on the Azure FRESH Portal:

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