Release Notes
Monthly updates on features and improvements
October 2020
Billing Accounts
Ability to add user roles for billing accounts
In the tenant portal, usage costs can be viewed by users who have access to the billing account.
Support for Monthly Fixed Cost irrespective of the number of days in a month
Performance improvements for Microsoft CSP workflows
September 2020
Configure additional email recipients for Tenant Invoices
Tenant user can view subscription usage and costs that are managed by them
The tax settings are now moved from Invoice settings to General Settings
August 2020
Invoice
Ability to generate invoices in multiple languages
Support for a customized invoice through HTML templates
Report APIs
Cost Report and Subscription APIs for external system integration
Support for operators to reset cost from UI and tool
Improvements
Rate of exchange
July 2020
Multi Stamp Management
Ability to map subscriptions across different Azure Stack stamps with billing subscription.
Aggregated dashboard for subscriptions across stamps.
Monitoring usage, costs, and invoicing subscriptions across stamps.
Exchange Rates: Ability to define prices in one currency and charge customers in multiple currencies through exchange rates. This feature is particularly useful for Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers as the price list from the Partner center is not available in all currencies.
Support for usage collection and billing for VCenter Snapshot disks in addition to other VM metrics
Performance Improvement fixes for Pricing Profiles
Bug fixes and Improvements
Support for pagination in Pricing Profile Meters
Fix for cloned meters not being visible in UI
Deployment
Support for deploying Billing resource provider in a multi-tenant enabled environment.
Support for deploying in a completely disconnected environment
June 2020
CSP
Improvements to CSP Office 365 License data collection
Improvements to reseller price calculations for Office 365 Licenses
Azure Stack Hub
Improvements to Usage Data collection in Multi-Stamp environments
The ability for admin to copy email notifications to other users
Email notification settings for billing subscription changes
Bug fixes and improvements
May 2020
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP):
Ongoing cost reports and forecast is now supported for Office 365 Licenses, Azure Usage, Software Subscriptions & Reserved Instances.
Office 365 cost split-ups based on license count in a billing cycle
More control on customer invoices: Admin would now be able to mandate approvals before the invoice is available for the customer. This makes it easier for admin to review and make any changes if required.
Resource Level cost in Admin and Tenant Reports for Azure Stack Hub
Bug fixes and improvements
April 2020
Support for Azure Stack Hub Version 2002
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP):
Azure Plan: Ability to charge Reserved Instances and Software Subscriptions (Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL, etc.,)
Licenses: Improvements to recurring cost calculation for licenses
Invoice:
New default layout for invoice: Going forward the improved invoice is the default option for the customers, this includes costs grouped by resource provider, invoice summary page and other improvements. If customer needs to see old invoice IsV2InvoiceEnabled in AppSettings should be set to false
Azure Subscription Id and other external Ids from the source to be shown in customer invoices
Ability to display usage history with costs for pre-existing data: This is controlled through IgnoreSubscriptionCreatedTimeInHistory in AppSettings; default value is false.
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