Merge pull request #190949 from dannyevers/65137-preview-audience

64682-preview-audience

Author: PRMerger15

articles/marketplace/azure-app-preview.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ms.reviewer: dannyevers
 ms.service: marketplace
 ms.subservice: partnercenter-marketplace-publisher
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 06/01/2021
+ms.date: 03/08/2022
 ---
 
 # Add a preview audience for an Azure Application offer
@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ This article describes how to configure a preview audience for an Azure Applicat
 
 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]
-> 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.
+> Previews are not supported by offers configured to be available to the [Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program](cloud-solution-providers.md).
 
 ### Add subscription IDs manually
 

articles/marketplace/azure-vm-preview-audience.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ms.topic: how-to
 author: iqshahmicrosoft
 ms.author: iqshah
 ms.reviewer: amhindma
-ms.date: 11/12/2021
+ms.date: 03/08/2022
 ---
 
 # Add a preview audience for a virtual machine offer
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ On the **Preview audience** page (select from the left-nav menu in Partner Cente
 
 Preview links are not available for hidden plans. For hidden plans, the preview audience can test the offer via the command prompt.
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> Previews are not supported by offers configured to be available to the [Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program](cloud-solution-providers.md).
+
 Your preview audience is identified by **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](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2122490)** page in the Azure portal.
 
 Add at least one Azure subscription ID, either individually or by uploading a CSV file. If your offer is already live, you can still modify the preview audience for testing changes or updates to your offer.

articles/marketplace/create-new-saas-offer-preview.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ms.reviewer: dannyevers
 ms.service: marketplace 
 ms.subservice: partnercenter-marketplace-publisher
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 11/24/2021
+ms.date: 03/08/2022
 ---
 
 # Add a preview audience for a SaaS offer
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ As you create your software as a service (SaaS) offer in Partner Center, you nee
 > [!NOTE]
 > If you choose to process transactions independently, you will not see this option. Instead, skip to [How to sell your SaaS offer](create-new-saas-offer-marketing.md).
 
+> [!TIP]
+> Previews are not supported by offers configured to be available to the [Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program](cloud-solution-providers.md).
+
 ## Define a preview audience
 
 On the **Preview audience** tab, you can define a limited audience who can review your SaaS offer before you publish it live to the broader marketplace audience. You can send invites to Microsoft Account (MSA) or Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) email addresses. Add a minimum of one and up to 10 email addresses manually or import up to 20 with a .csv file. You can update the preview audience list at any time.