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Lab 3 - Using the SaaS Accelerator#

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⚠️ Completion of the previous labs in this course is required for this lab to work.

Overview#

In this lab, you will familiarize you with the SaaS Accelerator, both from the customer and publisher points of view. The goal is to become comfortable with the SaaS Accelerator's landing page and publisher portal, so you (as a publisher) can monitor and manage your SaaS offer subscriptions.

Exercise: Customer purchase 1#

As a customer, you will be purchasing the offer. Here, you will do so from within Partner Center. You can do this from the Overview page of your offer under the Publisher signoff stage.

  1. Open Partner Center to your offer's Overview page.
  2. Find the link under the Publisher signoff stage.
  3. Click the Azure portal preview link. A new tab opens in your browser.
  4. Login if prompted.
  5. Click the Set up + subscribe button.
  6. Create a new resource group named saas-accelerator-purchases.
  7. Under SaaS details, name your subscription Subscription01.
  8. Click the Review + subscribe button at the bottom of the page.
  9. Click the Subscribe button at the bottom of the page.

The SaaS subscription is created. This may take a minute or two. Once the SaaS subscription has been created, you can move on to the following steps.

Exercise: The first landing page#

In this exercise, you will visit the offer's landing page, provided by the SaaS Accelerator.

  1. Click the Configure account now button.
  2. Login and allow the read permissions. This is Azure AD SSO asking for your permission to read account details.
  3. Click Accept to allow the application access to your basic account information.

  4. You should now see a page with your subscription details on it.

    Note that Status is currently PendingFulfillmentStart.

  5. In the lower right corner, click the activate button.

The landing page as a subscription tracker#

Remember you are acting in the role of the customer. Perhaps you have more than one subscription with this publisher.

  1. Click the Go to subscriptions list button in the lower right corner.
  2. You have one subscription PendingActivation by the publisher.

Exercise: Customer purchase 2#

As a customer, you will be purchasing the offer. Here, you will do so from within the Azure portal as you would in a typical buying experience.

  1. Open the Azure portal.
  2. In the left menu, click the bit + Create a resource link.
  3. Under the search text box, click the See more in Marketplace link.
  4. At the top of the screen, you'll see the text, You have private products available. View private products. Click the View private products link.
  5. Find the SaaS Accelerator 1 offer and click it.
  6. Click the Set up + subscribe button.
  7. Select the resource group you created earlier, saas-accelerator-purchases.
  8. Under SaaS details, name your subscription Subscription02.
  9. Click the Review + subscribe button at the bottom of the page.
  10. Click the Subscribe button at the bottom of the page.

The SaaS subscription is being created. This may take a minute or two. Once the SaaS subscription has been created, you can move on to the following steps.

Exercise: The second landing page#

In this exercise, you will visit the offer's landing page, provided by the SaaS Accelerator.

  1. Click the Configure account now button and log in if needed.
  2. Click the Activate button.
  3. Click the Go to subscriptions list button in the lower right corner.
  4. You have two subscriptions, one in PendingActivation and another in PendingFulfillmentStart.

Exercise: The publisher activates a subscription#

Now you are going to the play the role of the publisher and activate the customer's subscriptions.

The publisher portal#

  1. In the SaaS Accelerator's resource group, find the App service for the landing page and click it. It is the one named PREFIX-admin.
  2. In the upper right corner is the URL of the web app. Click the URL.
  3. You should be taken to a web page and receive no errors. If you are prompted to log in, do so.
  4. Click the Subscriptions tile. You can see the two subscriptions awaiting activation.
  5. For the Subscription01 subscription, click the menu under Action and select Activate.
  6. Note the status.
  7. Click the Activate button.
  8. Click the Go to the subscription list button and see the new state of the subscription.

Explore for a few minutes#

We encourage you to explore for a few minutes to play with the other capabilities of the SaaS Accelerator. First, there is the landing page, which also provides subscription visibility for the subscriber. Then there is the publisher portal, which allows monitoring and management of subscriptions.

Here are some things you might try.

  • Look at the status of each subscription via its landing page. Get there from the SaaS blade in the Azure portal.
  • Cancel, or Unsubscribe, a subscription from within the publisher portal.
  • Look at the other ways to navigate the publisher portal and see subscriptions and offers.

Congratulation! You have finished this lab.

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