Perpetual licenses Prices Importer

A new tool called “Import Perpetual Licenses Product Prices” has been added in our tools section for uploading Microsoft cost and sell prices.

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Ordering via Storefront

You can now publish the Perpetual licenses in your Storefront for your customers and resellers to purchase them.

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What’s coming?

Within December we will also deliver the following:

• Ordering Perpetual Licenses from BSS

• View and Manage Perpetual Licenses

• Cancelling a Perpetual license

• Availability of the Perpetual licenses to Tenant Resellers.

Key

Summary

EXL-11016

Customers that their names include any of the characters {}<>\” cannot be imported from Microsoft Import tool

EXL-10978

POST /api/contacts in v2.2. - The parameter randomActivation is not working correctly

EXL-10952

The orders cannot be exported from the Storefront in an excel file if the product type one of the order items has condition for product characteristic that have been deleted.

EXL-10919

Strings are missing from translation tool

EXL-10529

Deactivated products not pushed to Tenant resellers as de-activated.

EXL-10237

Reports are not sent from the scheduler if they include tens of thousands of results rows.

EXL-9936

For more details, please check Searching for Products that Belong to a Product Group

Tax ID is now Required for End Customers from Eastern Europe

Microsoft, as part of their of their continued commitment to customers and partners around compliant business practices, are requesting additional data fields from Partners to all new customers. All partners with a direct billing relationship with Microsoft (Direct Bill partners and indirect providers) are requested to submit Tax ID (INN) information of customers for the following countries: Russia, Hungary, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Our platform is compliant with this new requirements from this release. For CSPs that resell to one of the above countries our system will create a new synchronization parameter that is the “Organization INN”. The customer or the reseller will be requested to fill its Tax ID as part of the checkout process:

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For more details, please check Ordering for a Customer where Tax ID (INN) is Required

Microsoft Perpetual Licenses (Work in Progress)

From this version the “Get Services Definition” action, that updates the Microsoft product catalogue, returns the perpetual licenses too. This is the first deliverable of the Perpetual licenses that are still work in progress. The next weeks we will deliver:

• Perpetual licenses prices importer

• Ordering Perpetual licenses

• Managing Perpetual licenses

• Cancelling a Perpetual license

• Availability of the Perpetual licenses to Tenant Resellers.

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Resolved Issues

Microsoft Perpetual Licenses

Google introduced Google Workspace as a replacement for G Suite. Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

The service manager we have built for G Suite has been updated and now supports Google Workspace too. Since Google has introduced a transition period from upgrading from the old G Suite plans to the new Workspace plans, the current version of our service manager supports both the old and the new plans:

• Google Workspace Enterprise Plus - replacement for GSuite Enterprise

• Google Workspace Enterprise Standard

• Google Workspace Business Plus

• Google Workspace Business Standard

• Google Workspace Business Starter

• Google Workspace Essentials - replacement for GSuite Essentials

• GSuite Basic (legacy plan)

• GSuite Business (legacy plan)

Check please Defining G Suite Products for understanding how you can work with Google Workspace plans.

API Methods Update

G Suite Service Manager Improvements

In this release we implemented the following improvements:

Collect Admin User’s Alternative Email

We have added in account sync option a new field called “Alternative Email” for collecting admin user’s email. This email will be sent to Google for sending to admin user the activation instructions.

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Create a Primary Contact for each Imported Customer

Our G Suite Customers' Importer Tool now creates for each imported account a contact using the details of the admin user as stored in Google portal. Check automatic import of contacts for more details.

Upgrade / Downgrade Capability

You can now define upgrade and downgrade paths between Google plans using the instructions in Upgrade Paths section.

Not Use of Reseller’s MPNID for Personal Usage

From this release we no longer relate the subscriptions we create in Microsoft Partner for reseller’s personal usage with his MPN ID. Such subscriptions are not related with reseller’s MPNID since Microsoft requires services that are consumed from the reseller not to be linked with his MPN ID.

Resolved Issues