About Organizations and Locations

You enroll your company as an Organization in the Microsoft Partner Program. You can add company Locations to your Organization. In the Microsoft Partner Program, an Organization can be considered as an aggregation of all Locations.

You define the name of your Organization during enrollment. Once defined, you cannot change the name of your Organization without the help of the Regional Service Center (RSC).

With the resources and expertise from Locations, a partner can earn certain attributes at an Organization level. An Organization uses the assets from multiple Locations to earn a status and Program Level. For this reason, Organization and Locations can be defined as two independent levels, Organization level and Location level.

The following are characteristics of Organizations and Locations:

An Organization can have multiple Location and Locations can be worldwide. A Location is associated to a single Organization. The association of all Locations creates an Organization hierarchy.
All Organizations have at least one Location and that Location is designated as its Headquarters (HQ). There can only be one Headquarters within an Organization. You specify the Headquarters Location during enrollment of the Organization. You can change your Headquarters and re-structure your Organization after enrollment is complete.
All Locations have the same Microsoft Partner Program status and level as the Organization.
Associated Locations cannot go more than 5 levels deep in the Organization hierarchy. Level 1 can only have a single Location, which is the Headquarters. At all other levels there can be multiple Locations across, as shown in the diagram below.
After the enrollment process is complete, you can specify Locations and associate them to your Organization.
Your Organization hierarchy should reflect how you plan to distribute administrative rights. Individuals can be assigned as one of the following:
Global Administrator: Has administrative rights to modify data for all Locations in the Organization.
Location Administrators: Has administrative rights for their associated Location and all Locations beneath them in the hierarchy.
Non-administrators: Are associated individuals with no administrative rights

	Organization Hierarchy and Levels	Administrative rights scenario: A company has assigned three individuals to their Organization with administrative rights.
	Location 1 is Level 1 and is the Headquarters.	Tom is the Global Administrator assigned to the Headquarters at Level 1. Tom has the administrative rights to modify and enter data for all Locations.
	Locations 2, 3, and 4 are at Level 2 in the hierarchy.	Chris is a Location Administrator associated with Location 4. Chris has administrative rights for only Location 4 because there are no Locations associated beneath Location 4.
	Locations 5, 6, and 7 are at Level 3 in the hierarchy.	Katia is a Location Administrator associated to Location 3. Katia has the administrative rights to modify and enter data for Location 3, and all the Locations associated beneath it, which include Locations 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
	Location 8 is at Level 4 in the hierarchy.
	Location 9 is at Level 5 in the hierarchy.