CloudServices - January 2025

Learn more about the Bing-to-Azure migration and other improvements to CloudServices.

Bing Maps Replacement

If you integrate with Bing Maps to use features like geocoding and distance/drive time, you may have heard Microsoft is retiring the service on June 30, 2028 for enterprise licenses or June 30, 2025 for free/basic licenses. To continue using certain CloudServices features, you'll want to migrate to Azure Maps.
Note: Azure Maps is a transactions-based usage offering. Review their Pricing page, and check out their Nonprofit offers to see if your organization is eligible.
Once we have the new configuration settings in place, we'll provide instructions for updating them in MinistryPlatform. Until then, you can continue using your Bing settings for CloudServices. If you want to start using CloudServices that require an integration, you'll need to set up an Azure account since Bing is no longer accepting new customers.

Fixed an issue where contacts were being reactivated after they had been intentionally inactivated using the Inactivate tool. To avoid this, Contact Status Management now ensures a Participant End Date is more than 24 hours before the qualifying activity.