Kind of following on from /u/Try_Rebooting_It 's post on Wednesday. As some of you are aware this week I have been trying to get my company verified with Microsoft Partner Network. When I say "My Company" I mean literally mine - I use it for moonlighting in IT work when I'm not Teaching or whatever other random stuff I do during the day. Relevant later: in the UK I have to trade under my company name, this includes any invoices etc. I cannot just change my information to suit MS.

For multiple reasons I keep failing verification - not even sure what all of the reasons are but this latest one sticks in my mind...

Dear /u/allw,

Thank you for your inquiry about your Microsoft Partner Network account in Partner Center. We need more information from you to verify your Microsoft Partner Network account. Please attach the following documentation to your email reply and we will review your organization’s status. Documents submitted must have been issued within the previous 12 months.

-Domain registration / Domain invoice at registration or renewal that lists Entity/User name and domain as it is stated on your account.

-If not possible to provide additional documentation, please update your account information to match with documents already provided.

Sounds easy enough right? Just send them an invoice - nope can't do that AWS (who hosts my domain name, and who has for nearly a decade, don't stick domain names on invoices) so I went with screenshots showing every space I could think of to prove it is my domain. Registration details, edit records etc. not enough

Okay that's reasonable, I could be really good at forging, and have more than 30 seconds of time between emails to forge the webpage. I have made the domain registrar settings public (which in the UK they are not) and send them a link to the Nominet Whois page. not enough

The absolute best part about this is that MS know I own that domain because they host my O365 tenant and I have had to verify it with them!

WTAF MS get your sh*t together - it should not be this difficult to get onto MPN in order to make you more money!