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Overview of the various portals needed to create an offer for the Marketplace | Microsoft Docs |
Overview of the various portals needed to create an offer for the Marketplace |
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Before you start the process of publishing an offer, let’s get you introduced to the various portals that you will need. Below is the short summary about the portals--Developer Center, Azure Publishing Portal, and Azure Portal--in the order that you will interact with them.
http://dev.windows.com/registration?accountprogram=azure
Creating your Microsoft Developer Center account is a one-time task. Make sure that the company does not already have a Developer Center account before you attempt to create one. During the process, we collect bank account information, tax information, and company address information.
Note
If you are publishing only free offers (or bring-your-own-license offers), we do not require tax and bank information.
Ideally, this is a distribution list or a security group (e.g., azurepublishing@partnercompany.com). The distribution list or security group must be registered as a Microsoft account.
Tip
We recommend using a distribution list or a security group because it removes the dependency on any individual, although an individual account can be used as well.
https://publish.windowsazure.com
This is the portal that you use to work on the offer and to publish it (marketing, pricing, publishing, certification if applicable, etc.).
The above distribution list or security group must be used for the first time to sign in to the publishing portal. Later, other users can be added as co-admins. This is how it gets mapped to the Developer Center registration data.
This is the portal where you can view your staged and published offers in the Azure Marketplace (applicable for VMs, solution templates, and Azure Resource Manager-based developer services).
While you're staging an offer from the publishing portal, a subscription ID needs to be whitelisted. The same subscription (there is a user name and password associated with it) needs to be used for signing in to this portal to test the staged offer.