A scope within a Microsoft Customer Agreement, sitting beneath the billing account, that generates a separate monthly invoice paid by its own payment method. Each one holds at least one invoice section.
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Terms in this definition
- Scope
Where an access or policy assignment takes effect. It can be set on a single resource, a resource group, a subscription or a management group, and settings flow down from higher levels.
- Microsoft Customer Agreement
Under this Microsoft agreement, the billing account is divided into billing profiles, which each get one invoice, and those are divided again into invoice sections. Enterprise MCAs allow subscriptions to be created by code, with a ceiling of 10,000.
- Billing account
The highest scope under a Microsoft Customer Agreement or Partner Agreement. Billing profiles sit inside it and invoice sections inside those; the roles granted here cover invoices and creating subscriptions, never Azure resources.
- LEAST
Pass up to 254 expressions to this T-SQL function and it hands back whichever is smallest. Both Fabric Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints support it.
- Invoice section
A way of splitting the charges on a Microsoft Customer Agreement billing profile's invoice, for example by team, department or project. When an Enterprise Agreement transitions to MCA, its departments turn into invoice sections.
Related terms
- Microsoft Partner Agreement
The agreement Cloud Solution Provider partners use to manage Azure plan subscriptions for their customers, with one billing profile for each currency. Subscriptions can be created through code under it, but the DevTest offer is not available.