Read this article for a step-by-step guide on how to extend the default VConnect Operations Templates using a PowerShell script to enable Tenants to configure custom password for the root user account while provisioning Linux VMs.

Here is a step-by-step guide to configure pricing profiles using the Metered Resource Pricing setup wizard.

This blog post explains how Virtual Machine sizing-based pricing can be achieved using our Pricing Profile configuration, even though System Center sends Usage data of individual resources such CPU, RAM, Disk ...etc.

Enable provisioning and management of resources in Microsoft Azure public cloud from private or hosted Windows Azure Pack

Usage and Billing Update 7 release enables key new scenarios and features such as configuring user level credits to support pre-paid plans, view usage by grouping subscriptions at the user level, support for custom formula for computing usage of metered resources, generating invoice PDF documents, and the *hot new* capability to implement custom usage collectors using C# extensions.