Professional Support

Microsoft Professional Support has been developed to provide business users with assistance from our experts when experiencing problems with Microsoft Software.

Service Overview

Service Overview

Professional Support provides you with access to Microsoft experts, to help you address problems encountered with the development, deployment and management of Microsoft software in commercial environments. Professional Support is available on an incident-by-incident basis, over the phone or via the web.

At Microsoft we call a problem with software a support ?incident? and many of our retail products include no-charge. Paid for Professional Support incidents are also available for additional support requirements, as described below.


Professional Support Boundary

<h4>Price and how to purchase</h4>

Price and how to purchase

Microsoft Professional Support provides support in multiples of one (?single incident? or ?Pay-per-incident?) or five incidents (?Incident packs?)

  • Rupee 4,100 for single incident (9:00am ? 6:00pm Monday to Friday)
  • Rupee 20,500 for 5-incidents pack (9:00am ? 6:00pm Monday to Friday)
  • Rupee 8,200 for single incident (after business hours)

After hours support is available for Rupee 8,200 and only provides for business critical issues support (Severity A). Severity A incidents are defined as situations that involve a system, network, server, or critical program down situation that severely affects customer production or profitability. These are high-impact issues where production, operations, or development are proceeding but could be severely affected within several days.

Microsoft will provide continuous effort to resolve the problem 24 hours a day. Senior managers at Microsoft are notified.

The customer must allocate appropriate resources to sustain a continuous effort 24 hours a day. The customer's management must be notified.

For more information or to request Advanced Support, call 1800 419 5666. (Do not use the international prefix 00 when dialing this number)

Please note: online submission is only available when a multi-pack of incidents is purchased. If you wish to use online submission, please use one of the ordering methods below to request a contract ID, then once you have received your contract ID, proceed to Online Assisted Support to create your incident online.

<h4>Hours of Service and Contact</h4>

Hours of Service and Contact

Professional Support phone support is provided during the following hours of operation: 24 hours per day, 7 days per week

Contact your local Microsoft Office for more information.


* Microsoft Customer Service & Support (CSS) is changing its Professional support model to deliver deep technical expertise in the most effective and efficient manner possible. By the end of March 2009, Microsoft will expand its call-back model for all Professional support incidents. This model eliminates unproductive hold time for customers and better captures problem and diagnostic data through a simple, intuitive online process. As a result, customer problems are routed more quickly to the most qualified engineer, who will call customers directly for resolution. Response times are defined by support offering and by issue severity. Customers can submit problems online at http://support.microsoft.com/oas.

<h4>Frequently Asked Questions</h4>

Frequently Asked Questions

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Last Review : Thursday, July 30, 2009