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With this release we are excited to announce that we have massively improved the platform's automatic pricing module to fully support the subscription renewal automation for existing subscriptions containing Discontinued and End of Sales (EoS) Microsoft products.

Specifically, when a Microsoft NCE product is marked by Microsoft as discontinued or EoS, its pricing information, from the Microsoft Preview Pricing Excel file, is saved internally to our platform. This includes the latest effective cost and sell prices for each Microsoft-supported currency and country of your Microsoft instance(s) that you sell to. The stored cost and sell prices of the discontinued or EoS products are then utilized for existing subscriptions (which contain these products), for invoicing and renewal purposes. This means that when a subscription is up for renewal, our platform automatically retrieves the correct price, so there is no need to handle pricing manually. It's important to note that adding or reducing licenses for existing subscriptions with discontinued NCE products is unaffected. NCE subscriptions are price-protected throughout their effective period, and any applicable promotional discounts will still apply. Also, cancelations and suspensions are unaffected. However, upgrades to EoS NCE products are not allowed.

🔹 Therefore, even if an existing active subscription contains a discontinued/EoS NCE product, our pricing mechanism can support it, even upon renewal, using either the stored Microsoft Excel pricesheets or the Foreign Exchange (FX) rate tool of our platform, in case the currency is unsupported by Microsoft.

In this release, we are excited to provide the security feature called Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) via Email also to Resellers of the Standard Edition. This feature enhances the security and privacy of your Storefront accounts. It allows your users to verify their identity with a six-digit code that is sent to their predefined email address, in addition to their password, when they log in to the Storefront. This way, you can protect your accounts from unauthorized access, grant users greater autonomy over their authentication preferences, align with the need for customizable security measures in your digital systems, and overall enjoy a more secure and user-friendly experience.

To use this feature, you must first enable it from the Admin Panel of your Storefront along with the respective email notification. You can also customize the 2FA email template according to your business needs. Once you have enabled the feature and the respective notification, you will see a verification pop-up window when you log in to the Storefront with your local credentials. You will need to enter the verification code that is sent to your email address within 5 minutes or 10 attempts. You can also request a new code if the previous one expires or is incorrect.

With the latest Dropbox announcement about the new Dropbox products and add-ons certain existing (legacy) Dropbox SKUs will be deprecated since they are replaced be the new products and add-ons and by the 1st of November, Dropbox will proceed with a forced migration of existing subscriptions to the new Advanced SKUs (and add-ons whenever applicable).

💡 Therefore, with this release, the platform is prepared to update all the existing “Dropbox Advanced Edition” products to the new “Dropbox Advanced Edition 5TB/license” products and so on. Also, the new add-ons will be created automatically and assigned to the corresponding base products.
For all the above to happen and for your Dropbox catalogue to be updated with all the changes and new SKUs, you have to run the Get Services Definition (GSD) process inside each Dropbox Service Manager instance after you upgrade to this (114) release patch and after the 2nd of November.
Please also note here the inside the Dropbox Service Manager instance in the BSS platform, the Product Names field must be set to the option "Consciously update names", otherwise the update of your Dropbox catalogue will be unsuccessful.

ℹ️ Through the Get Services Definition process (that must be run after the 2nd of November), our system will:

• Update automatically the Dropbox Advanced Edition SKU with the Dropbox Advanced Edition 5TB/license SKU. Existing Dropbox Advanced Edition subscriptions will be updated automatically with the new Dropbox Advanced Edition 5TB/license SKU too (to cover the migration).

• Update automatically the add-on Creative Tools (assigned to Advanced Licenses) with the Replay add-on SKU. Existing add-on subscriptions will be updated too.

• The Dropbox Advanced Server product will be deprecated.

• The following add-ons, Creative tool (assigned to Standard licenses), 10 TB Storage Pack, and 50 TB Storage Pack will be deprecated.
  

⚠️ After the Get Services Definition process, the user must:

• Deactivate manually from the BSS platform the aforementioned deprecated Dropbox add-ons along with the deprecated Dropbox product.

In this release, you can add tel links when writing custom HTML code to be displayed in the Storefront. This will result in a clickable link, which, when clicked, allows you to select your telephone app to call the number. This affects sections such as Products → Storefront Settings → Overview in the BSS.

Example:

<a style="color: #005bcb !important;" href="tel:732-375-0155" target="_blank">732-375-0155</a>

This release introduces the POST api/assets/{assetId}/setexternalId endpoint. This endpoint sets IDs for your assets in external systems.

For more information, please visit the Swagger documentation at yourBSS.URL/apidocs and select API Version 3..

With this release, the PUT api/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/customfields endpoint is added to API V3. The purpose of this endpoint is to update asset custom fields which have been created by a service manager.