Merge pull request #106224 from bandersmsft/master

CM+B - various updates

Author: megvanhuygen

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/get-started-partners.md

@@ -135,19 +135,15 @@ When the cost policy is set to **Yes**, subscription users associated to the cus
 
 When the cost visibility policy is enabled, all services that have subscription usage show costs at pay-as-you-go rates. Reservation usage appears with zero charges for actual and amortized costs. Purchases and entitlements are not associated to a specific subscription. So, purchases aren't displayed at the subscription scope.
 
-To view costs for the customer tenant, open **Cost Management + Billing** and select the relevant Microsoft Partner Agreement billing account.
 
-![Select a billing account](./media/get-started-partners/select-billing-account.png)
+### View customer costs
 
-Under **Billing**, select **Azure subscriptions**, and then select a customer.
+To view costs for the customer tenant, open **Cost Management + Billing**. Select **Cost analysis** and then change the scope to the customer tenant subscription to start reviewing costs.
 
-![Select an Azure subscription customer](./media/get-started-partners/subscriptions-select-customer.png)
+![View cost analysis as a customer ](./media/get-started-partners/customer-tenant-view-cost-analysis.png)
 
-select **Cost analysis** and start reviewing costs.
 Cost analysis, budgets, and alerts are available for the subscription and resource group RBAC scopes at pay-as-you-go rate-based costs.
 
-![View cost analysis as a customer ](./media/get-started-partners/customer-tenant-view-cost-analysis.png)
-
 Amortized views and actual costs for reserved instances in the RBAC scopes show zero charges. Reserved instance costs are only showing in billing scopes where the purchases were made.
 
 ## Analyze costs in cost analysis

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/media/get-started-partners/customer-tenant-view-cost-analysis.png

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Quickstart - Explore Azure costs with cost analysis | Microsoft Docs
 description: This quickstart helps you use cost analysis to explore and analyze your Azure organizational costs.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/11/2020
+ms.date: 03/02/2020
 ms.topic: quickstart
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: micflan
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Cost analysis supports different kinds of Azure account types. To view the full
 
 For information about assigning access to Azure Cost Management data, see [Assign access to data](../../cost-management/assign-access-acm-data.md).
 
+If you have a new subscription, you can’t immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
+
 ## Sign in to Azure
 
 - Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/media/get-started-partners/select-billing-account.png

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: This tutorial helps plan and account for the costs of Azure service
 keywords:
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/23/2020
+ms.date: 03/02/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: adwise
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ In this tutorial, you learn how to:
 
 Budgets are supported for different kinds of Azure account types. To view the full list of supported account types, see [Understand Cost Management data](understand-cost-mgt-data.md). To view budgets, you need at least read access for your Azure account.
 
- For Azure EA subscriptions, you must have read access to view budgets. To create and manage budgets, you must have contributor permission. You can create individual budgets for EA subscriptions and resource groups. However, you can't create budgets for EA billing accounts.
+If you have a new subscription, you can’t immediately create a budget or use other Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
+
+For Azure EA subscriptions, you must have read access to view budgets. To create and manage budgets, you must have contributor permission. You can create individual budgets for EA subscriptions and resource groups. However, you can't create budgets for EA billing accounts.
 
 The following Azure permissions, or scopes, are supported per subscription for budgets by user and group. For more information about scopes, see [Understand and work with scopes](understand-work-scopes.md).
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/media/get-started-partners/subscriptions-select-customer.png

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Tutorial - Reduce Azure costs with recommendations
 description: This tutorial helps you reduce Azure costs when you act on optimization recommendations.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/12/2020
+ms.date: 03/02/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: adwise
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Recommendations are available for a variety of scopes and Azure account types. T
 - Subscription
 - Resource group
 
-You must have active virtual machines with at least 14 days of activity.
+If you have a new subscription, you can’t immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features. Also, you must have active virtual machines with at least 14 days of activity.
 
 ## Sign in to Azure
 Sign in to the Azure portal at [https://portal.azure.com](https://portal.azure.com/).

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis.md

@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ For Azure Storage accounts:
 - Write permissions are required to change the configured storage account, regardless of permissions on the export.
 - Your Azure storage account must be configured for blob or file storage.
 
+If you have a new subscription, you can’t immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
+
 ## Sign in to Azure
 Sign in to the Azure portal at [https://portal.azure.com](https://portal.azure.com/).
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: This article helps you better understand data that's included in Az
 keywords:
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/21/2020
+ms.date: 03/02/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: micflan
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ This article helps you better understand Azure cost and usage data that's includ
 
 Cost Management includes all usage and purchases, including reservations and third-party offerings for Enterprise Agreement (EA) accounts. Microsoft Customer Agreement accounts and individual subscriptions with pay-as-you-go rates  only include usage from Azure and Marketplace services. Support and other costs aren't included. Costs are estimated until an invoice is generated and don't factor in credits.
 
+If you have a new subscription, you can’t immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
+
 ## Supported Microsoft Azure offers
 
 The following information shows the currently supported [Microsoft Azure offers](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/offer-details/) in Azure Cost Management. An Azure offer is the type of the Azure subscription that you have. Data is available in Cost Management starting on the **Data available from** date. If a subscription changes offers, costs before the offer change date aren't available.