What's New for Subscription Entitlement Service
June 16, 2021
Change history added for further pages
- Change History functionality was included into additional pages. For more information, please see Change History
June 3, 2021
Added option to Entitlement groups to include all products allowed for use from the Entitlement country plus the defined Allowed Applications list
- Previous group behavior was to allow administrators to define a strict list of products that the assigned users have access to. The new option allows administrators to define a list of products that the group's users have access to in addition to the entitlements from their entitlement country.
- As with previous entitlement group behavior, all group entitlements are cumulative, so if a user is in several Entitlement groups and this option is on in one of the groups, then the user will have access the entitlements from the Entitlement country.
- Please see Entitlement Groups - Managing Access for more information
January 12, 2021
New Entitlement group behavior
- Entitlement groups now have an Allowed Applications list that lets the administrator define the list of products users in the group will have access to. This list will not be affected by changes in access at the entitlement country level.
- Entitlement groups previously configured with access exceptions will continue to work with those exceptions until the Allowed Application list is configured. Tools have been provided to convert those access exceptions to the Allowed Applications list.
- The ability to manage the older style Entitlement Group exceptions has been disabled.
- Please see Entitlement Groups - Managing Access for more information
History of changes for Alerting setting changes
- Administrators can now see a history of changes for alerting settings changes on the product's License Alerting page by clicking on the
icon at the top right of the page.
November 23, 2020
Preview release of new Checkout page
- A preview of the newly re-designed checkout page has been made available. This new page is more intuitive and has performance improvements.
- This Preview will be available side-by-side with the original checkout page for a number of weeks. Once the new page is out of Preview, the original page will be removed.
October 18, 2020
Subscription Information page improvements
- Specific subscription types now shown including Cloud Service Subscription, if applicable.
- Account information displayed.
- Expiration date of subscription is now displayed.
Applications and Services page improvement
- Filter options are persisted when leaving the page and returning.
- Individual entitlement end dates displayed on the Applications and Services page
Improved organization of in sidebar menu
June 15, 2020
Checkout Restrictions
Checkout restrictions allow administrators to configure controls on what products can be used as a checkout for extended offline periods and the maximum duration of the checkout allowed. For more information on how to configure checkout restrictions, please refer to Checkout Restrictions.
Enhanced sidebar menu
The drop-down menu on Entitlement Management as been replaced with a sidebar menu that improves navigation between areas.
Global entitlements
Only applies to accounts participating in commercial programs that support global entitlements such as Enterprise 365.
Support for management of Global entitlements which are entitlements that are available to every user associated to the organization regardless of their location. These differ from other entitlements which are limited to users within the same entitlement country as the one that the contract is effective in.
Default Access Setting
The Default Access setting lets the administrator change the default access for all products to allow for more strict control over which products their user base can access.
If nothing is done with this setting, the default access is "Allowed" and that can be overridden at the product, group or user level. With the Default Access setting, the default can be changed to "Allowed" or "Access Denied" for all products. That setting can still be overridden at the product, group or user level. For more information on how to manage the Default Access setting, please see Default Access
May 26, 2020
Custom Alerting message max length increased
The max length of the custom message that license administrators can add to the Threshold alert message displayed to end users has been increased to 300 characters.
May 4, 2020
Default Access Settings
Default Access settings allow organization administrators to configure access to entitlements across all products for a particular entitlement country. That default setting can then be overridden at the product level or by creating exceptions for a group or user.
For the initial rollout, this feature is exposed to certain accounts. It will be exposed for all accounts in the coming days.
For more information, please see Default Access