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In this release, Microsoft Indirect Providers & Microsoft Direct CSPs can use the New Commerce Experience (NCE) Trials feature.

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With this feature, you can:

• Automatically update your product catalog with the Trial availability on a product level.

• Promote NCE Trials through your Storefront.

• Automatically activate & provide a Trial NCE Subscription.

• Allow the Trial to end and purchase a new subscription, to get any promotion available by Microsoft and have the option to decide on the number of licenses and the billing term.

⚠️ For the improvements to become available to your BSS organization, you have to run the Get Services Definition process on every Microsoft Service Manager Instance.

With this release, the Abode Sign products and add-ons are offered for purchase! The Adobe Sign products are offered to individuals and businesses that want to digitize their everyday operations by offering and utilizing enterprise-level e-signature solutions. These Adobe products offer a range of scalable document e-signing solutions to meet the unique business needs of each end customer. More specifically, the range of scalable document e-signing solutions is provided via the two types of Adobe Sign products, namely, the Adobe Sign Transactions (in the form of prepaid consumables), and the Adobe Sign Licenses(NULs) (in the form of subscription based licenses).

Updating the Adobe Catalog with the Adobe Sign Products & Add-ons
Once the Adobe Sign products are downloaded (via the official Adobe product’s Excel file) from the Adobe Partner Portal, they can be prepared and imported to our BSS platform via the respective import tool. Afterwards, they can be assigned to the Adobe Product Container and be published in your Storefront.

Differences & Similarities Between the Adobe Sign products and the Adobe Teams & Enterprise products
Some differences between the Adobe Sign products and the Adobe Teams & Enterprise products, are that Adobe Sign Transaction products utilize Tiers for volume discounts, whereas Adobe Sign License products utilize Levels, exactly like the Adobe Teams & Enterprise products. Also, certain Adobe Sign products can be offered as Trials and also they can have dependable add-ons.

⚠️ For the improvements to become available to your BSS organization, you have to run the Get Services Definition process on every Adobe Service Manager Instance.

In this release, Microsoft has introduced two new parameters when someone chooses the Education qualification as their entity. These new parameters, called EducationSegment, and Website, can be found in the form of fields, under the BSS Account Sync Options, and under the Storefront Details Step(#3) (during the checkout process).In essence, these fields are utilized during the vetting process of the Education qualification in order to facilitate faster yet more controlled vetting and consequently simplify the transactions of Academic-priced offers and products for you, your resellers, and their end-customers.

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Important Points

• Education Qualification Vetting Affects Only New Customers and Not the Existing Ones.

• Only existing and vetted tenants with an Education qualification can omit the two new Education fields.

• The affected Microsoft Product Types are the following three: Microsoft Perpetual Licenses, Microsoft Cloud Services, and Microsoft Dynamics.

• The Vetting hold time is usually three (3) days or less.

• Tenants with different than Education qualifications cannot purchase Education Products, unless they have either No qualification or a Commercial qualification and wish to change it to the Education qualification, by filling in the two new Education fields. Also, a special category of Microsoft qualification called State Owned Entity(SOE) can have both the Enucation qualification as well as the SOE qualification.

• Tenant Organizations inherit the new Education fields from their root/parent Account.

🔹 Currently, the functionality for vetting new Education customers via the Storefront is limited, yet the same functionality is fully available from the BSS. In the upcoming releases, the functionality in Storerfont will be fully available.

⚠️ For the improvements to become available to your BSS organization, you have to run the Get Services Definition process on every Microsoft Service Manager Instance.

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Various improvements have been implemented for this release concerning the Scheduled Orders mechanism. The highlights are the following:

• A new notification email, named Schedule Order Execution Failed, is dispatched for Scheduled Orders that failed to be executed.

• A new BSS inline banner is added under the Order view page, which clarifies that the order is Scheduled while also displaying the Execution Date.

• A BSS user can cancel a Scheduled Order, by editing it in BSS and changing its status.

• A Storefront user can also cancel a Scheduled Order via the Order Items page.

• A Storefront user can now distinguish a Scheduled Order from a non-Scheduled Order inside the Orders History page.

• Scheduled Orders can also be canceled via API, since all that is required is a change in their status. However, Scheduled Orders are not yet fully supported by the Public API.

⚠️ Please note that Scheduled Orders, for customers having On-Premise Installations,require the RabbitMQ serverto be installed and setup in order for the Scheduling mechanism to be fully functional.

With this latest update, your resellers can set the distributor’s suggested retail price (SRP) for all products, including the NCE catalog.

The Custom Fields relating to Accounts are now permissionless and available to everyone. This means that the fields under the Account Sync Options in BSS appear always regardless of user permissions.

With this improvement, the Billing Plan field, inside the Storefront Order Items view page, displays the selected Billing Plan (Monthly or Annual) for Orders that are scheduled for execution in the future (meaning not-executed yet). The following screenshot indicates the issue prior to the improvement.

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The Checkout Confirmation page has been slightly adjusted to streamline the checkout experience. Since provisioning occurs asynchronously, the provisioning status has been removed from the order summary and can now be viewed in the Notification Center. The Manage Your Services column has also been removed, since the user can now access their cloud services through the Workspace page menu.

The API v2.2 method PUT /api/Invoices/{invoiceId}/markpaid, related to invoices, will become deprecated in about four(4) months' time.
This notification will be repeated one more time in a later release.