Microsoft 365 – FEATURE UPDATE – Microsoft 365 admin center: New self-service purchase and trial settings

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Greetings for the day!!!

Today sharing feature update about – New self-service purchase and trial settings

Feature Update – The Microsoft 365 admin center is introducing new settings for Global admins to manage self-service trials and purchases. 

What is Self-service purchase?

• Self-service purchase allows users to try out new technologies and develop solutions.
• Central procurement and IT teams have visibility to all users who buy and deploy self-service purchase solutions through the Microsoft 365 admin center.
• Admins can turn off self-service purchasing on a per product basis.
• Previously this option is only available through Microsoft MSCommerce PowerShell module.
• Now managing self-service trials and purchase option is also available through Microsoft 365 admin center.
• This setting is available only for Global Administrators.

How to Manage Self-service purchase through Microsoft 365 admin center

• Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center.
• Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center either through office 365 portal or from direct URL – https://admin.microsoft.com/
• We have detailed article to navigate Microsoft 365 admin center – Microsoft 365 – Navigating to Microsoft 365 admin center
• As we are in Microsoft 365 admin center navigate to – Settings > Org Settings > Self-service trials and purchases as shown in below fig.

• To update the setting for any listed product, we need to click on the respective product, right pane will with options as

Few details

• Self Service trial and purchase settings are enabled default and accessible to all Microsoft 365 Global admins. 
• As future self-service options are launched by products, they will be available to manage in this new setting.

REFERENCES

• Self-service purchase FAQ – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/subscriptions/self-service-purchase-faq?view=o365-worldwide
• How to navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/11/17/microsoft-365-navigating-to-microsoft-365-admin-center/

Thank you for reading 🙂

Stay tuned for Microsoft 365 updates.

Have a fantastic time ahead ! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂