Documentation Change Log

Documentation about Extended Service Terms has been Added:

• EST documentation

• EST FAQs

The following sections have been updated in the Channel Operations Guide: New FAQs have been added, and the description of the MCA attestation process has been updated along with the corresponding parameters:

• Order Process as a Transacting Partner

• Customer Agreement Parameters

• Activation Parameters for Provisioning with a Microsoft Domain

• MCA Attestation FAQs

No documentation updates available for this release.

Distributor Portal Configuration Guide:

• The description of the gdap_name_prefix has been updated.

• Information about Microsoft Audit Reports has been added.

Channel Operations Guide:

The Configuring the Name of GDAP Relationship Requests section has been updated.

New documentation for Microsoft Management Settings extension v3.2 (supported by NCE Microsoft 365 and Software v28.5):

• Creating and Configuring Email Notification Rules for GDAP requests

• Linking GDAP email templates to Email Notification Rules

• Auto-assigning the Admin Agents Security Group

The following new sections have been added to Microsoft Management Settings documentation:

• Microsoft Default GDAP Relationship with New Customers

• Extending the Custom GDAP Relationship with Customers

The following new section has been added to the Seamless Move documentation:

• Importing Multiple Subscriptions

The description of the ordering process as a transacting partner has been updated in the Channel Operations Guide.

No documentation updates available for this release.

New sections have been added to the Channel Operations Guide:

• Testing New Deployments

• Importing One-Time Purchase History

• Overage Management

• Managing Credentials in Microsoft Management Extension

The information about credentials and refresh tokens has been moved to the Microsoft Management Extension documentation.

The Distributor Portal Configuration has been updated with information about the gdap_name_prefix parameter, which allows distributors to specify the prefix that will be used in the name of GDAP Relationship Requests.

A new section has been added to the Channel Operations Guide: Configuring the Name of GDAP Requests with a Vanity Prefix

The following features were introduced by the Microsoft Management Settings extension:

• The Distributor Portal Configuration Guide has been updated with template examples for the GDAP request email: Using the Microsoft Extension Service to Configure the GDAP Request Email Template

• New section was added to the Distributor Portal Configuration guide: Configuring the roles for the GDAP request

• The following section has been added to the Channel Operations Guide: Viewing GDAP Request Email History and Resending the GDAP Request

• The following section has been updated: Requesting a Granular Admin Relationship with Customers (GDAP)

The following changes were introduced in the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide:

• A new section has been added with instructions on how to install and configure the Microsoft Extension Service, which is required to configure the message that will be sent to request the granular admin relationship request (GDAP).

New sections has been added to the Channel Operations Guide:

Managing Role Assignment for GDAP Relationship Requests

Requesting a Granular Admin Relationship with Customers (GDAP).

The User Journeys have been updated with information about the Approve Partner Roles button that allows customers to check if there are roles pending approval: Order Process as a Transacting Partner, Order Process as an End-Customer.

The following parameter has been added to the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide:

• cancel_flow

The list of supported Microsoft Connect products has been added to the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide and Channel Operations guide.

The following changes were introduced in the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide:

• The sales_model parameter has been updated.

The following changes were introduced in the Channel Operations Guide:

• Introductory information on who may place Microsoft NCE orders.

• The MPN ID and the Indirect Reseller domain are no longer mandatory in the ordering process.

   

No documentation updates available for this release.

The following parameter has been added to the Purchase Request Parameters section of the Channel Operations Guide:

• microsoft_tenant_id

A new section was added to the Channel Operations Guide:

• Activation Parameters for Provisioning with Microsoft Tenant ID

A new section was added to the Channel Operations Guide:

• Parameters Required for Partial Upgrades

The following parameter was added to the Channel Operations Guide:

• migration_type

The following section was added to the Channel Operations Guide:

• Parameters in Requests to Purchase Microsoft NCE Products.

The Channel Operations Guide was updated with Information on the parameters required to migrate legacy CSP subscriptions with add-ons to NCE.

The following parameter was added to the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide (only required for NCE products):

allow_additional_mpnids

The following parameter has been updated in the API provisioning section of the Channel Operations Guide:

• indirect_reseller_domain

The following parameters have been added to the API provisioning section of the Channel Operations Guide:

• special_qualifications

• transaction_info_object

Note: The special_qualification parameter will not work on version 16. Please, use the special_qualifications parameter as specified in the guide.

• New procedure for creating the refresh token.

• The following parameters now need to be configured manually by distributors: refresh_token_production and refresh_token_test

Distributor Portal Configuration Guide Update:

• A new parameter with id sales_model needs to be configured by Distributors.

• CBC Configuration Guide Updates:

  • PLM requirements for the deployment of Microsoft NCE products.

• Channel Operations guide updates:

  • New parameters added to the API provisioning: special_qualification, offer_attestation

• Information about NCE Commercial Promotion Reports was added.

• Information about NCE Promotions was added.

• A note was added in the Distributor Portal Configuration Guide to clarify that it is only possible to migrate active Microsoft subscriptions.

• Additional information was added to the notes in the Importing Existing Microsoft Subscriptions to CloudBlue Connect section.