Windows 10: Microsoft Partner Near Me

I am in need of a small business Microsoft Partner who can help me with a Windows related error message regarding a need to rewrite a Registry Key

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How can a "Microsoft Authorized Partner" status be verified?

I have spent more than an hour attempting to verify the Authorized Microsoft Partner status for PCDestination.com before purchasing a software license.

I have visited multiple sites including partnercenter.microsoft.com and chatted with a Microsoft partner representative who told me that he could not verify the partner without the "Partner ID". He also told me that "we do not release information about
our partners".

He referred me back to the partnercenter website, however the Find a Partner menu item is useless.

This is a serious problem. An Authorized Microsoft Partner, Gold Partner, or whatever is of very limited value if it can not be verified. I still do not know if the software license would be valid or if they simply put an icon on the page knowing that
no one can check it.

There should be a list of partners, a database, or someway to verify the status of a legitimate Microsoft Partner.

Please let me know if there is such a list. If so, it is not easily discoverable even with multiple searches and asking direction from Microsoft.

Come on, Microsoft. Help us out here a bit

 

Microsoft Partner

In order to upgrade Windows Server 2012 to 2012R2, can you purchase download "license key" only from a Microsoft Partner? And how do you tell and confirm who is a Microsoft Partner? In other words, safe to purchase from?