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Use the private offer eligibility report

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The private offer eligibility report scans your account and provides results on account configurations that allow you to purchase the private offer, such as:

  • Policies for:
    • allowing marketplace purchases
    • enforcing tagging when creating a resource
    • the resource group
  • Purchase controls on the billing account that can allow marketplace purchases on your subscription.

To learn about getting ready to purchase a private offer, see Step 1: Prepare your account for private offers.

Note

Not everyone in your organization has the same roles and permissions. Be sure the individual(s) within your organization running the private offer eligibility report is the person who plans to either accept or purchase the private offer.

Run the report

  1. Select the Settings icon on the top right corner of the screen in the Azure portal to access the list of directories + subscriptions:

    Screenshot of the settings icon in the Microsoft Azure services menus.

  2. Select the subscription(s) you want to perform the precheck:

    Screenshot of the default subscriptions filter in the Portal Settings menus.

  3. Navigate to the marketplace. Search for Marketplace on the search box and select the Marketplace service:

    Screenshot of a search for the term marketplace, and the term Marketplace appearing in the Services settings of the search results.

  4. Select Private offer management:

    Screenshot of the tile view in the Private Offer management workflow.

  5. Select Check eligibility:

    Screenshot of the Check eligibility button in the Private Offer management workflow.

View eligibility report summary

When you select the Check eligibility button, a summary of the eligibility report is generated. Results are summarized in two sections - General information and Your eligibility check results:

Screenshot of the sections: General information and Your eligibility check results in the Private Offer management workflow.

Select Download report to receive a detailed Private Offers eligibility report.

General information

This section provides general information about your Azure account:

  • Subscriptions with permissions: the number of subscriptions you have a role assigned to. The results include only subscriptions selected in the global subscriptions filter when you run the report. To learn about Azure roles, see Azure built-in roles.

  • Subscriptions you can deploy: to deploy a resource when purchasing a marketplace solution, you must be either the subscription owner or contributor.

    You might only have read access for one or more subscriptions, but no permissions to purchase. To view the roles and permissions required to purchase, see Roles and permissions.

    Download the report results (CSV file) to see a summary of all subscriptions you have the required permissions to deploy and purchase.

  • Billing accounts for your subscriptions: a billing account is created when you or your organization signs up to use Azure. Each private offer is associated with a specific billing account. When requesting a private offer, choose the correct billing account you want to use. You can find detailed information in the downloadable report results (CSV file).

    • You can have access to multiple billing accounts.
    • You can use the billing account of choice to manage your invoices, payments, and track costs.
    • You might also have access to your organization's Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA).

Eligibility check results

This section shows account configurations that can block (or enable) you from purchasing or subscribing the private offer or private plan:

  1. Subscriptions linked to a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) account: accounts under the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, along with all their associated subscriptions, aren't eligible for private offers or private plans. If there are no subscriptions linked to CSP, this check passes without issues. Find detailed information in the downloadable report results (CSV file).

    Note

    If you wish to purchase outside of a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) subscription, you can sign up for Azure using a different account type. Learn about the different account types or create an Enterprise Agreement (EA) subscription or a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) subscription to deploy and purchase outside of your CSP subscriptions.

  2. Private Azure Marketplace: if a private Azure Marketplace is enabled in your tenant, the private Azure Marketplace administrator must enable a rule that automatically approves private products.

  3. Policies: Azure policies might block marketplace purchases. Download and open the report to see the subscriptions that are impacted. To verify policies that might block purchases, access the policy assignments in the Azure portal under Policy - Microsoft Azure. Check for policy assignments where:

    • Parameter is set to listOfResourceTypesNotAllowed
    • Parameter value contains Microsoft.SaaS or Microsoft.Marketplace

  4. Blocked subscriptions: purchase control options on the billing account can block marketplace purchases. For example, only free products might be allowed, or marketplace purchases might be turned off. Your cloud administrator must remove purchase controls to enable marketplace purchases.

Eligibility report details

The eligibility report provided is a CSV file containing a comprehensive list of your subscriptions along with their deployment status (whether they can or can't deploy marketplace purchases). You'll need to find the subscription to use, and the associated Billing Account ID listed.

Screenshot of the results report.

Read the report results:

  • Columns A & B: verify that this is the subscription used for purchase
  • Column D: Billing account ID for private offers
  • Column E: Confirm market where purchase will take place
  • Column F: Confirm owner or contributor role
  • Column G: Confirm billing profile policies
  • Column H: CSP accounts can't be used for private offers
  • Column I: If Private Marketplace is enabled, then extra steps needed
  • Column J: If EA, then separate role needed for to accept private offers - also need to check for billing currency specified in the agreement
  • Column K: If EA, confirm cost management + billing policies
  • Column L: Overall report assessment

Examples of Billing Account ID formats

  • 74286105
  • 3p7b96f5-8ebf-470f-84bf-e5d7dbe8fa70:a657c0b8-3082-47cd-9318-801a3571a28f_2010-01-23

Note

In some cases, the system can't perform all prechecks and might return not enough information. If you receive missing information or the information contains values like unable to access data, or unknown, you might not have permissions to run the report, view data for the billing account, or make purchases on a subscription. Make sure the eligibility check is conducted by someone in the organization with sufficient permissions, who is the designated person to either accept or purchase the private offer.

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