In this exercise, you will learn to prepare and accept a Private offer through marketplace.
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A private offer is a solution customized for your needs and sent to you by the partner. This article explains the steps for procuring a private offer and performing checks to avoid issues during purchase. Private offers are different from private plans.
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Check permissions. For a Microsoft Cloud Agreement (MCA) customer, you must be Billing account owner or Billing account contributor to accept an offer. To purchase or subscribe to an offer, you must be a Subscription owner or subscription contributor.
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Search Subscription in the portal search bar and choose Subscription.
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Choose the Azure Pass - Sponsorship subscription.
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Select Access control (IAM) in the menu.
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Select Role assignments and choose +Add and Add role assignment.
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Select the Privileged administrator roles tab and select Contributor. You can select Owner, but you want to adhere to the principles of least privilege access. Select Next.
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Choose + Select members and select your user account. Choose Select and Review + assign. Select Assign.
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Run the private offers precheck report described in the step before and download the report for details. The report will contain your billing account ID.
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From the Azure portal, select Marketplace > Private offers management (or Private products), then select Check eligibility.
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A summary report will be shown after finishing the scan. More details are available in a downloadable CSV file.
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In the Azure portal, select Cost management + Billing > Properties > ID. A user in your organization with access to Cost Management + Billing will be able to access the billing account and verify the ID in Azure portal.
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If you know the subscription you plan to use for the purchase, in the Azure portal, select Subscriptions, select the relevant subscription > Properties (or Billing Properties) > Billing account ID.
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Additional information on accepting an offer can be found here: Accept the private offer
In this exercise, you learned to prepare and accept a Private offer through marketplace.