Merge pull request #292955 from bandersmsft/ea-portal-agreements

MCM - Update ea-portal-agreement for Samantha

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/cost-management-billing/manage/ea-portal-agreements.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Azure EA agreements and amendments
 description: The article describes how Azure EA agreements and amendments might affect your access, use, and payments for Azure services.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 08/20/2024
+ms.date: 01/13/2025
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: enterprise
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ An enrollment has one of the following status values. Each value determines how
 
 EA credit expires when the EA enrollment ends for all programs except the EU program.
 
-**Expired** - The EA enrollment expires when it reaches the enterprise agreement end date and is opted out of the extended term. Sign a new enrollment contract as soon as possible. Although your service isn't disabled immediately, there's a risk of it getting disabled.
+**Expired** - The EA enrollment expires when it reaches the enterprise agreement end date and is opted out of the extended term. Sign a new enrollment contract as soon as possible. Although your service isn't disabled immediately, there's a risk of it getting disabled. Additionally, you won't be able to see any billing and usage data generated after the enrollment end date.
 
 As of August 1, 2019, new opt-out forms aren't accepted for Azure commercial customers. Instead, all enrollments go into indefinite extended term. If you want to stop using Azure services, close your subscription in the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com). Or, your partner can submit a termination request. There's no change for customers with government agreement types.
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ As of August 1, 2019, new opt-out forms aren't accepted for Azure commercial cus
 
 In the Azure portal, Partner Price Markup helps to enable better cost reporting for customers. The Azure portal shows usage and prices configured by partners for their customers.
 
-Markup allows partner administrators to add a percentage markup to their indirect enterprise agreements. Percentage markup applies to all Microsoft first party service information in the Azure portal such as: meter rates, Azure Prepayment, and orders. After the partner publishes the markup, the customer sees Azure costs in the Azure portal. For example, usage summary, price lists, and downloaded usage reports. Percentage markup is not applied to Azure Marketplace.
+Markup allows partner administrators to add a percentage markup to their indirect enterprise agreements. Percentage markup applies to all Microsoft first party service information in the Azure portal such as: meter rates, Azure Prepayment, and orders. After the partner publishes the markup, the customer sees Azure costs in the Azure portal. For example, usage summary, price lists, and downloaded usage reports. Percentage markup isn't applied to Azure Marketplace.
 
 Starting in September 2019, partners can apply markup anytime during a term. They don't need to wait until the term next anniversary to apply markup.
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Partners can use the markup feature in the Azure portal after a Change of Channe
 
 EA administrators receive various types of notifications from different services. Notifications allow enterprise administrators to enroll their team members to receive usage notifications and user management notifications without giving them billing account access in the Azure portal. For more information, see [Manage notification contacts](direct-ea-administration.md#manage-notification-contacts).
 
-Customers with indirect enrollment receive usage notifications containing quantity but not cost if markup is not defined for the enrollment by partner.
+Customers with an indirect enrollment receive usage notifications containing quantity but not cost when a partner doesn't define enrollment markup.
 
 ## Resource Prepayment and requesting quota increases