The Office 365 Business plans have the special condition that Microsoft supports only up to two subscriptions per customer in partner center. For complying with this requirements, our platform supports the provisioning of one monthly and one annual subscription for these plans in partner center.The following scenarios describe how our system handles the provisioning of Office 365 Business plans.
Provisioning of Annual Subscriptions in MS Partner Center is Enabled
By enabling this option, that can be found at Microsoft Cloud Services settings, our system will provision both monthly and annual subscriptions in the partner center.
| Action | interworks.cloud BSS | Microsoft Partner center |
|---|---|---|
| For price protected subscriptions | ||
| An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | Monthly subscription IW1 is created with quantity 5 | Monthly subscription MS1 is created with quantity 5 |
| An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licenses | Annual subscription IW2 is created with quantity 7 | Annual subscription MS2 is created with quantity 7 |
| An order is placed for 3 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | The quantity of subscription IW1 is updated to 8 | The quantity of subscription MS1 is updated to 8 |
| An order is placed for 10 x Business Essentials annual licenses | The quantity of subscription IW2 is updated to 17 | The quantity of subscription MS2 is updated to 17 |
| For non price protected subscriptions | ||
| An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | Monthly subscription IW3 is created with quantity 5 | Monthly subscription MS3 is created with quantity 5 |
| An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licenses | Annual subscription IW4 is created with quantity 7 | Annual subscription MS4 is created with quantity 7 |
| An order is placed for 3 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | Monthly subscription IW5 is created with quantity 3 | The quantity of subscription MS3 is updated to 8 (IW3 + IW5) |
| An order is placed for 10 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | Annual subscription IW6 is created with quantity 10 | The quantity of subscription MS4 is updated to 17 (IW4 +IW6) |
| Subscription IW3 is cancelled | The quantity of subscription MS3 is updated to 3 | |
Provisioning of Annual Subscription in MS Partner Center is Disabled
By disabling this option, our system provisions always monthly subscriptions in partner center.
| Action | interworks.cloud BSS | Microsoft Partner center |
|---|---|---|
| An order is placed for 5 x Business Essentials monthly licenses | Monthly subscription IW7 is created with quantity 5 | Monthly subscription MS5 is created with quantity 5 |
| An order is placed for 7 x Business Essentials annual licenses | Annual subscription IW8 is created with quantity 7 | The quantity of the monthly subscription MS5 is updated to 12 (IW7 +IW8) |
| Subscription IW7 is cancelled | The quantity of subscription MS5 is updated to 7 |