Microsoft SaaS - CONNECT 15.4.3 Release Notes

Introduction

This document describes the fixed issues and known limitations of Microsoft SaaS - CONNECT v15.4.3

New Features

• To better support CB Partners with Microsoft's Dual 1T & 2T Sales Model Authorization, the new Partner Attestation of No Self Dealing and for other Compliance measures coming soon, CloudBlue is introducing a new Connect Marketplace Parameter available now for configuration: sales_model.

Call to Action

• This is a Breaking Change on Monday 28-February-2022 - Action required by all CloudBlue Partners: The sales_model parameter must be configured for all the Microsoft products that you distribute. For further details, refer to the Distributor Portal Configuraton Guide or the Microsoft Partner Enablement Community.

Fixed Issues

• An issue when rescheduling requests has been fixed. Now the processor will retry failed "create order" requests every 24 hours, when a "customer under review" error occurs for an NCE order.

Known Limitations

• NCE Microsoft 365 to Non-Qualified Commercial Customers: Changing the NCE order billing cycle is not supported.

• NCE Microsoft 365 to Non-Qualified Commercial Customers: Downsizing or changing the billing cycle in upgrades is not supported.

• All Microsoft User-Based Products: End-User Management is not supported.

• Changing the term duration is not supported for NCE products.