Merge pull request #105151 from bandersmsft/master

CM+B - various updates

Author: Jak-MS

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-analysis-common-uses.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: This article explains how you can get results for common cost analy
 keywords:
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/12/2020
+ms.date: 02/21/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: adwise
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Your usage details report file, in CSV format, provides a breakdown of all the c
 
 Your EA enrollment accrues costs for your entire organization. Understanding how costs accrue and are invoiced over time helps you to engage the appropriate stakeholders to ensure that costs are managed responsibly.
 
+Costs are only shown for your active enrollment. If you transferred an enrollment (inactive) to a new one (active), costs for the previous enrollment aren't shown in Cost Management.
+
+
 1. In the Azure portal, navigate to **Cost Management + Billing** > **Overview**.
 1. Click **Breakdown** for the current month and view your monetary commitment burn down.  
     ![EA costs overview - breakdown summary](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/breakdown1.png)

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data.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: 02/20/2020
+ms.date: 02/21/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: micflan
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ Here are a few tips for working with tags:
 - Use the Tags API in conjunction with either Query or UsageDetails to get all cost based on the current tags.
 
 
-**Free trial to pay-as-you-go upgrade**
+## Free trial to pay-as-you-go upgrade
 
-Customers with a Free Trial offer (044P) converting to the PAYG offer (003P) can see their usage during the Free trial period. However, they lose visibility to Free Trail usage after conversion. After conversion, only PAYG usage and costs are shown in Cost Management.
+For information about the availability of free tier services after you upgrade to pay-as-you-go pricing from a Free trial, see the [Azure free account FAQ](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/free-account-faq/).
 
 ## Rated usage data refresh schedule
 

articles/cost-management-billing/manage/ea-portal-vm-reservations.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Azure EA VM reserved instances
 description: This article summaries how Azure reservations for VM reserved instances can help you save you money with your enterprise enrollment.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 02/14/2020
+ms.date: 02/21/2020
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.reviewer: boalcsva
@@ -52,10 +52,12 @@ You can view your reserved instance purchase details via the _Reservations_ menu
 
 ### How can I change the subscription associated with reserved instance or transfer my reserved instance benefits to a subscription under the same account?
 
-At any given time, only one subscription can receive reserved instance benefits. You can change the subscription that receives reserved instance benefits by:
+You can change the subscription that receives reserved instance benefits by:
 
-- Logging into the [Azure portal](https://aka.ms/reservations).
-- Updating the applied subscription scope by associating a different subscription under same account.
+- Signing in to the [Azure portal](https://aka.ms/reservations).
+- Updating the applied subscription scope by associating a different subscription under the same account.
+
+For more information about changing the scope of a reservation, see [Change the reservation scope](../reservations/manage-reserved-vm-instance.md#change-the-reservation-scope).
 
 ### How to view reserved instance usage details
 

articles/cost-management-billing/manage/enterprise-api.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ ms.author: banders
 # Overview of Reporting APIs for Enterprise customers
 The Reporting APIs enable Enterprise Azure customers to programmatically pull consumption and billing data into preferred data analysis tools. Enterprise customers have signed an [Enterprise Agreement (EA)](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/enterprise-agreement/) with Azure to make negotiated monetary commitments and gain access to custom pricing for Azure resources.
 
+All date and time parameters required for APIs must be represented as combined Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) values. Values returned by APIs are shown in UTC format.
+
 ## Enabling data access to the API
 * **Generate or retrieve the API key** - Log in to the Enterprise portal, and navigate to Reports > Download Usage > API Access Key to generate or retrieve the API key.
 * **Passing keys in the API** - The API key needs to be passed for each call for Authentication and Authorization. The following property needs to be to the HTTP headers