Date: 01 Aug
Installation: https://downloads.interworkscloud.net/patches/3.26.0/CloudPlatform.Patch.3.26.1.zip
You can must upgrade first to 3.26.0 using the interworks.cloud installer before applying this patch
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Important Notice for On-premise customers Before upgrading to - ACTION REQUIRED In 3.26.0 you must apply the .Net Framework 4.8 in your application servers. You can download it from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net48 | ||||
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In this release we completed the ordering process for the Microsoft Subscriptions from the BSS.
What's next? The Azure Reservation integration will be completed in the next releases where we will deliver the following:
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For more details, please check Ordering Microsoft Software Licenses from BSS
Azure Budget Alerts (available for Storefront v4)
1 release, interworks.cloud.Platform windows services installed to the server hosts Administration component are replaced by new ones. Check please Renaming of interworks.cloud platform Windows Services (3.26.1 release) for instructions. |
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Azure Budget Alerts are now available for Storefront v3In this release the budget alerts are available also for Storefront v3. The budget alerts can be used by your resellers and direct customers to plan service cost. |
With budgets they can:
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A budget alert is defined per Azure subscription and it can be setup only by your customers. You can only view the alerts defined by your customer but you cannot define your own.
What's next?
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New Edition of Acronis Services Manager
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Activation of Price Protection for Existing Office 365 Subscriptions
In this release we introduced the facility to add under price protection your existing subscriptions. You can perform a batch activation by selecting the subscriptions you want under price protection by running a search in your list of your subscriptions. The activation can be applied only to subscriptions that are not under price protection. If you select a subscription that is under protection, you will receive an error at the end of the process.
The price protection end date will be calculated automatically by our system using the "Effective Date" the subscription has in Microsoft partner center. The protected cost and sell prices will be calculated using subscription pricing options.
For more details, please check Activating the Price Protection for a Microsoft Subscription
Interworks .cloud External Authentication Framework
We implemented a framework for our platform to integrate with external authentication services, providing registration/login capabilities of BSS users authenticated through external IdP's (Identity Providers).
Such services can be used to identify users maintained in external user stores and map them to BSS users providing access to the interworks.cloud platform when logged-in (authenticated) from these external sources.
Support for SAML 2.0 Protocol
The first protocol that we implemented in SAML 2.0. It is an XML-based open standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties that uses security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a user between a SAML authority (HPE identity provider) and a SAML consumer (interworks.cloud BSS).
If your company maintains a SAML 2.0-based Identity Provider solution for issuing identification information, you can benefit from BSS integration with the protocol and provide your users a single sign-on experience to BSS.
If you are interesting for integrating your BSS with your SAML 2.0 Identity solution, please contact our customer success team.
Invoice Item Cost
In this release we introduced three new fields for the invoices for displaying the prorated cost of an invoice item (for the billed period).
- Unit Cost (invoice item field). It the cost per unit (e.g the cost for 1 license for item's billed period)
- Total Cost (invoice item field). It is the unit cost multiplied with the invoice item quantity.
- Cost Amount (invoice field). It is the summary of all total costs fields of the invoice items.
The cost fields are calculated with the following way:
- For price protected subscriptions, the unit cost will be the price protected cost of the related subscription.
- For non protected subscriptions, the unit cost will be derived from product's current cost
- For azure resources, the unit cost is the charges we are getting from Microsoft Billing API
- For the one off products, it is the unit cost that has the related order item.
In the details of an invoice, we now display the total cost of the invoice broken per billing type (e.g monthly, annually, one off etc.)
These two new fields are available in our reporting engine for creating reports that include the cost information. These fields are also available via API from the methods that return data for the invoice items.
The new edition of interworks.cloud platform integration with Acronis provides the opportunity for all distributors and service providers to bill and provision Acronis Products both for server and local solutions. Our continuous work on upgrading this integration and staying aligned with the latest Acronis APIs, boosts our partners' revenues and enables them to stay up-to-date with the latest Acronis products.
- With the new edition you will be able to offer both backup plans and File Share and Sync plans.
- You can define per plan which is going to be the gateway for the data storage.
- You can offer 30 days free trial to your customers for testing the Acronis service before purchasing it. (work in progress - available in next release)
- Your customers will be able to reset their Acronis password directly from Storefront workspace.
What's next?
In the following releases we'll support also:
- 30 days free trials for your Acronis services
- Checking mechanism for the acceptance or not of a cancellation requests based on the usage of the allocated quotas.
For more details, please check /wiki/spaces/KASFD/pages/4664570
Stripe Payment Gateway - Support for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
Beginning September 14, PSD2 regulation introduced SCA requirements for many online payments made by European customers, to help reduce fraud. In this release we updated our Stripe payment gateway to comply with the changes made by Stripe for meeting the new requirements.
Expiration Date is now Available for the Software Subscriptions Assets
The expiration date for a Software Subscription is now available when you are viewing the asset record in BSS or in Storefront. The expiration date is loaded by calling Microsoft API and it's the date that you can see also in Microsoft partner center.
For viewing this field, you should first run the "Get Services Definition" action for getting the latest definition of the Software Subscriptions product type.
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Please be informed that the new cost fields will be available only for invoices that will be generated after the upgrade to 3.26.0 release. For the previous invoices these fields will have 0.0 value. |
Storefront v4 - Availability of Support Section
From this release the Support section is fully functional in Storefront v4. Your customer can use it for submitting tickets and monitoring their progress.
New API Methods
In this release we implemented a new set of API methods for the Assets and Products module. The following methods are available in 3.0 version.
It returns the custom fields for the asset record. For the Azure Reservations, it returns the customer fields described here
Check API v3.0 for more details.
Stripe Payment Gateway Enhancements
In this release we included the following enhancements for Stripe Gateway:
- Enabling Email Receipts from Stripe. With each transaction we pass to Stripe the email of the logged in user for Stripe to send the payment receipt.
- Localization of Stripe SEPA Form. You can now localize the SEPA forom using our Language Pack Tool. Check Localization of SEPA form for more details.
Azure Reservations - SQL Data Warehouse Offers
From this release we support the new reservation type "SQL Data Warehouse". The ordering and provisioning process is similar with the reset reservation types.
For more details, please check Selecting the Reservation Type.
Automatic Renew of Microsoft Authentication Token
The process you are running for giving your consent to our platform, it generates an authentication token that expires in 90 days. In this release we introduced a mechanism that renews automatically this token once per week. With this enhancement you will no longer need to re-run every 90 days the authentication process.
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For your existing Software Subscriptions assets, you can get the expiration date by editing and saving the asset record. This action will refresh the expiration date by making the call to Microsoft API. |
This field is also available in our notification engine for sending to your resellers or customers reminders for the expiration of their Software Subscriptions.
Software Subscriptions are now Fully Supported for Tenant Resellers
In this release we completed the migration and the back ordering mechanism for the Software subscriptions of a Tenant Reseller.
- Transfer of Software Subscriptions assets during the upgrade of a Lite reseller to Tenant reseller. The upgrade process will transfer to tenant's BSS the Software subscription assets that exist in distributor BSS. The transfer will be performed by the "Transfer Subscriptions" actions.
- Propagation of Software Subscriptions assets to Distributor BSS (back ordering). Software Subscription assets that are created in tenant reseller's BSS will be propagated automatically to Distributor BSS. The propagation will be managed by the back ordering mechanism that is already used for the subscriptions. For more details, please check Copying Reseller Assets in Distributor BSS.
Managing Software Subscriptions from Workspace
The Microsoft Subscriptions your resellers or customers have purchased are now viewable in Storefront's Workspace.
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