Add a preview audience for an Azure Application offer

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This article describes how to configure a preview audience for an Azure Application offer in the commercial marketplace. You need to define a preview audience who can review your offer listing before it goes live.

Define a preview audience

On the Preview audience page, you can define a limited audience who can review your Azure Application offer before you publish it live to the broader marketplace audience. You define the preview audience using Azure subscription IDs, along with an optional description for each. Neither of these fields can be seen by customers. You can find your Azure subscription ID on the Subscriptions page in the Azure portal.

Note

A preview audience differs from a private audience. A preview audience is allowed access to your offer before it's published live in the online stores. They can see and validate all plans, including those which will be available only to a private audience after your offer is fully published to the marketplace. You can make a plan available only to a private audience. A private audience (defined in a plan's Availability tab) has exclusive access to a particular plan.

Add a minimum of one and up to 10 Azure subscription IDs, either individually (up to 10) or by uploading a CSV file (up to 100) to define who can preview your offer before it is published live. If your offer is already live, you may still define a preview audience for testing offer changes or updates to your offer.

Note

Previews are not supported by offers configured to be available to the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program .

Add subscription IDs manually

  1. On the Preview audience page, add a single Azure Subscription ID and an optional description in the boxes provided.
  2. To add another ID, select the Add ID (Max 10) link.
  3. Select Save draft before continuing to the next tab: Technical configuration.
  4. Go to Next steps.

Add subscription IDs with a CSV file

  1. On the Preview Audience page, select the Export Audience (csv) link.
  2. Open the .CSV file in a suitable application such as Microsoft Excel.
  3. In the .CSV file, in the ID column, enter the Azure Subscription IDs you want to add to the preview audience.
  4. In the Description column, you can optionally add a description for each email address.
  5. For each Subscription ID you enter in column B, enter a Type in column A of "SubscriptionID".
  6. Save as a .CSV file.
  7. On the Preview audience page, select the Import Audience (csv) link.
  8. In the Confirm dialog box, select Yes.
  9. Select the .CSV file and then Open.
  10. Select Save draft before continuing to the next tab: Technical configuration.