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Is it possible to confirm a new client is on NCE or Legacy?
Hi Eric_Coffman
I do not believe the customer's Microsoft 365 Admin center identifies whether a subscription is legacy or NCE. This is only determined by the provisioning mechanism the partner used.
When the license subscription appears in the admin center only the resultant product details are visible and a SKUPartNumber is used by Microsoft. For example, Azure AD P1 whether legacy or NCE is the same product as far as Microsoft and the customer's tenant is concerned, it is just billed differently.
Here is an extract from an API call that gets the subscribed SKU's for a customer tenant. This is an NCE subscription because we provided it, but from this you would not know if legacy or NCE.
"items": [
{
"availableUnits": 0,
"activeUnits": 0,
"consumedUnits": 0,
"suspendedUnits": 1,
"totalUnits": 0,
"warningUnits": 0,
"productSku": {
"id": "078d2b04-f1bd-4111-bbd4-b4b1b354cef4",
"name": "Azure Active Directory Premium P1",
"skuPartNumber": "AAD_PREMIUM",As far as I know, the only way to know is to ask the partner who provided the subscriptions. Hopefully they are honest or can provide a screenshot from Partner Centre.
Hi Eric_Coffman
I have several responses for you:
A) If you're an admin, you can verify which subscriptions your organization has by going to the admin center.
Not an admin? See What Microsoft 365 for business product or license do I have?
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Your products page.
- On the Products tab, you see all your subscriptions. Each subscription line includes information about licenses, subscription status, and billing.
- If you want to change the columns that appear in the list, select Choose columns. Change the selection of columns, then select Save.
- To see more details for a single subscription, select that subscription.
B) Have you used the new Get a new commerce subscription migration API and MigrationID field in the APIs? This is a new feature where you can find start/end migration completion details as long as the migration took place after June 22, 2022.
C) Additionally, when clicking upon the migrated NCE subscription in Partner Center (from the customer's subscriptions list), Partners are able to view a detailed log of migration events under the Migration Activity header.
Migrate subscriptions to new commerce - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
5) You can find subscription and tenant IDs in the Azure portal - Get subscription and tenant IDs in the Azure portal - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn
If this reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,
Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
- Thanks for the info, but that doesn't address my specific question about determining the type of existing subscription type.
How can I definitively tell if a subscription is legacy or NCE?Hi Eric_Coffman
Are you asking how to identify NCE SKUs vs Legacy SKUs?
If so, from what I can see in the NCE SKUs, they structure looks a lot different, meaning the NCE SKUs begin with the letters in all caps:
also, here are more key differences between traditional and new commerce:
New commerce license-based overview - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
If this reply answers your question, please Accept as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Otherwise, please let me know if you need further assistance on this topic.
Regards,Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge
- Are you able to tell me how to locate the offer ID within the admin center? The only information that I am able to find is the subscription ID that is located in the address bar of the browser when I am viewing the product? To view the subscription ID, I navigate to "Your Products.
Unfortunately, the subscription ID's for both legacy and NCE are not noticeably different when looking at them. Unless there is any insight into some way to tell them apart, I don't know if I will be able to.
I have compared the subscription ID from the client tenant that may have legacy subscriptions that purchases direct against a client that I am currently the indirect provider for that I know has NCE subscriptions.
I can probably get the offer ID for the client I am the Indirect Reseller for. Are you able to tell me how I can find the offer ID of the client that purchases directly?
