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This tool facilitates the manualy configured and automatic currency conversion of Microsoft Perpetual License assets prices for all countries and currencies, even those not automatically supported by Microsoftthat Microsoft automatically supports.

The API call of the Microsoft Service Manager in BSS is automatically collecting from Microsoft the official officially supported Perpetual License prices and assigns them to all the Perpetual License products based on the predefined Active Currencies that you have selected , under the Microsoft Service Manager instance settings. For the non-officially supported Microsoft Perpetual License Prices, the BSS user needs to utilize the conversion tool.


Perpetual License Currency Selection & Conversion Tool

Since there may be end customers* that wish to order Perpetual License products by utilizing officially and non-officially supported currencies by Microsoft, the following tool (available to tenants as well as country tenants) provides the correct (converted) prices for Perpetual License products, during the ordering process, by calculating the manually provided foreign exchange rate of all currencies of all countries in two different means.
*By end customer, we mean all the final consumers of the Perpetual License products.

Automatic mean: Is to allow our systemic automatic currency conversion method to retrieve Microsoft Perpetual License assets prices by utilizing an API call via the Microsoft Service Manager in BSS that automatically collects from Microsoft only the officially supported Perpetual License prices and assigns them to all the Perpetual License products based on the predefined Active Currencies that you have selected, under the Microsoft Service Manager instance settings. For the non-officially supported Microsoft Perpetual License Prices

For the tool to operate successfully, the BSS user needs to

utilize the second manual method.Manual mean: Is to have the manually defined currency conversion method override the automatic one. By providing

provide Microsoft Perpetual License asset prices by

hand, BSS users can configure

configuring the conversion rates between two currencies manually.

This method

The tool, as previously mentioned, can be utilized for officially and non-officially Microsoft-supported Perpetual License prices. Therefore, a BSS

users

user can manually define conversion rates for all currencies from all countries with no limitations. Also, it is important to note that the manual definition of the foreign exchange rates of currencies stops the automatic currency conversion

method

(of officially supported Microsoft currencies)from functioning on those currencies whose foreign exchange conversion was manually defined. This means that the manual

mechanism is always prioritized over

assignment of foreign exchange rates always overrides the automatic mechanism.

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Perpetual License Currency Selection & Conversion Tool - Rules

  • Both the supported and the unsupported currencies must be enabled in the BSS organization, for the tool to function.

  • For the Perpetual License products to have the correct prices, the BSS user needs to first insert the correct FX rates for these (supported and unsupported) currencies and then run the Get Services Definition action.No conversion foreign exchange rate will be used if the pricing of a Perpetual License product is found in the country price list of the customer in the customer’s paying currency.

  • This tool is utilized for every country’s currency, which Microsoft does or does not provide foregin foreign exchange rates for .

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  • automatically. When Microsoft officially supports a currency, then both the Automatic and the Tool’s currency conversion methods can be used while if Microsoft does not support the currency, only the Tool’s currency conversion method can be used.

  • A manually defined currency conversion (via the Tool) always supersedes the automatic systemic conversion.

Four Main Steps of Configuring Perpetual License FX Rates


For the Perpetual License products to have the correct prices when the five aforementioned non-officially supported Microsoft currencies (VEF | AWG | CEUR | DRX | ZWL) need to be utilized, the BSS user needs , the BSS user needs to choose either the default automatic currency conversion method (for Microsoft’s officially supported currencies) or to manually provide the correct foreign exchange rates for these those currencies & then perform the Get Services Definition action. More specifically, for the manually defined conversion method, the BSS user has to:

  1. Activate the required (supported or non-supported by Microsoft) currency on their BSS organization, if they haven’t already done so.

  2. Activate the aforementioned currency on the desired Microsoft Service Manager instance under the Active Currencies and then Save the instance.

  3. Navigate to the

“Perpetual
  1. Perpetual Licenses Currency Selection &

Conversion”
  1. Conversion tool, under BSS Setup,

and
  1. define the conversion rate between the

Microsoft-supported currency and the non-supported currency and
  1. two currencies and then Save the changes of the defined foreign exchange (FX) rate.

  2. Navigate to the (affected by currency changes) Microsoft Service Manager instance(s) and run the Get Services Definition action.

Watch the video below for instructions on how to manage unsupported currencies for perpetual license assets:

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Accessing the Tool


To access the currency conversion tool for the Perpetual License products, go to BSS > Setup > Tools and select Perpetual Licenses Currency Selection & Conversion.

Currency Conversion for

the Five

Supported & Unsupported Currencies from Microsoft


Once the home page of the tool appears, the BSS user needs to choose first the Microsoft Cloud Services instance for which the currency conversions will occur, based on the defined Countries of that instance.

For the instance selected, all the currencies activated on the BSS organization that are not found in any Microsoft price list of for the countries selected on the instance will be displayed and . Here, the BSS user is able to can provide the foreign exchange rate for each of these five currencies (VEF | AWG | CEUR | DRX | ZWL) and Save it.

Once the instance is selected, then the tool requires the BSS user to click on the Add New Currency button to define the following drop-down menu buttons and fields, on the pop-up window that appears.

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  • Qualification: This drop-down button provides the BSS user with the available Perpetual License Qualifications that are available in the selected instance.

  • Selling Currency*: This drop-down button provides the BSS user with the available unsupported (by Microsoft) currencies that are enabled in the BSS organization as well as and in the Microsoft Service Manager instance (under the Active Currencies field) , and it is this since this is the field where the (supported or unsupported by Microsoft) selling currency is defined.

  • Market Country Pricelist: This drop-down button provides the BSS user with the available defined Countries that are tied to the previously selected instance. This field is where the API call will be based to automatically retrieve the supported Microsoft currencies containing the official prices automatically. This field is, of course, related to the field Pricelist Currency.

  • Pricelist Currency: This drop-down button provides the BSS user with the supported currencies from Microsoft for the country that was selected in the previous field, Market Country Pricelist.

  • FX Rate: This numeric field provides the BSS user with the ability to insert the foreign exchange rate of the Pricelist Currency against the Selling Currency in a decimal fashion. The default field value is “0.00001” and the field accepts up to five decimals.
    The arrows can be utilized to increase or decrease the value by the last decimal.

*Selling Currency Field - Available Displayed Currencies

Only the currencies that do not exist in at least one country price list out of the ones declared on the respective instance and for which Microsoft does not provide an FX rate for, are displayed on the tool.
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Multiple Instances with the Perpetual License option Enabled

To offer Perpetual License products in multiple instances, use the tool separately for each instance.

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Limit - One Conversion Rate Per Currency Per Qualification

Once the BSS user selects a currency and a Qualification for which to fill in its conversion rate, this currency and occasionally the Qualification will no longer be available for selection, because only one conversion rate for each currency per qualification is supported.

No Currencies for Conversion - Message
If no currencies are found to provided provide conversion rate for, a message appears to the BSS user informing them about it:

The same message will be displayed when the Active Currencies of the Microsoft instance have only one currency available, even if the activated currencies of your organization are many more.

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How can I activate a new currency for the Perpetual License products?

For activating a new currency to utilize it inside the tool, you should first activate it from the currencies of your Organization in BSS as well as from the Microsoft Service Manager instance, under the Active Currencies field,in order to be displayed in the Market Country Currency drop-down list.

How to Provide Conversion Rates for all or certain Perpetual License Qualifications?

BSS users need to repeat this process for every Perpetual License qualification they whish to provide conversion rates for.

Once the BSS user finishes filling in the fields of the pop-up window, they must click on the Save button.

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Now that all the fields have been successfully defined, once the BSS user has clicked on the Save button, the tool establishes the conversion rates on the supported or unsupported currencies for the Perpetual License products. Moreover, the established currency conversion can be managed after their its creation.

Lastly, the BSS user has to navigate to the (affected by currency changes) Microsoft Service Manager instance(s) and run the “Get Services Definition” action one more time , for the conversions to take effect.

Managing Currency Conversions


Via the table containing the saved currency conversions, the BSS user is then able to can manage the stored conversion rates by adding new ones, removing old ones, and editing existing currency conversions, as highlighted in green color.

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Therefore, every time there is an order for a Perpetual License product that is sold via an unsupported currency by Microsoft (such as the Venezuelan Bolivar [VEF] in this example), our system will automatically search the tool for a defined currency conversion and automatically place the correct pricing on the Perpetual License product, based on the provided foreign exchange rate, before the completion of the order.

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