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Installation: https://downloads.interworkscloud.net/patches/3.27.0/CloudPlatform.Patch.3.27.8.zip
You must upgrade first to 3.27.0 using the interworks.cloud installer before applying this patch
External Authentication - Single Sign-On for Storefront
The interworks.cloud platform can be integrated with external authentication services, providing registration/login capabilities for Storefront users which become authenticated through a service or external Identity Providers(IdPs). Such services can be used to identify users maintained in external user stores and map them to BSS/Storefront users providing access to the interworks.cloud platform when logged-in (authenticated) from these external sources.
When a user requests to log-in to Storefront he has the choice of logging into our Storefront with an external authentication service. When the preferred external authentication service is chosen, the user is being redirected to the login page of the authentication service in order to enter his corresponding credentials. Upon successful authentication, the external service redirects the user back to Storefront along with some necessary information about the user. As a result, Storefront utilizes those information to verify the successful authentication of the user by the external authentication service and at the same time gather more information so as to associate him to a Storefront user, if he is already registered on Storefront, or prompt him to register an account with the acquired information from the external authentication service.
The first edition of our integration with external identity providers support Azure AD and Azure B2C. Very soon we will support also social identity providers like Google and Facebook.
For more details, please check External Authentication - Single Sign-On(SSO)
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Migrating your Existing Azure Plan Subscriptions in BSS
We have also implemented an Importer tool that will allow you to migrate all customers' Azure Plans subscriptions, that have already been created inside the Microsoft Partner Center, in your BSS. Using this tool you will be able to import both Azure plan subscriptions that were created from the transition of the legacy Azure subscriptions, but also subscriptions that were created for customers never used Azure in the past.
What's next?
The following functionality hasn't been completed yet and it will be delivered the next days:
- View of the Azure plan usage for the current month. The usage records will be available i subscription's view page (both in BSS and Storefront) as part for the next release
- Full support of Azure plans for Tenant Resellers:
- The import tool to be available for the Tenant resellers to import their Azure plan subscriptions.
- The cost of an Azure plan subscription to be the cost the tenant pays to the indirect CSP and not Microsoft's cost.
Upon delivery of the above functionality we will continue with supporting Azure reservation purchases for an Azure plan subscription and the ability to define budget alerts per Azure plan or per subscription (entitlement).