Partner Center submission API to onboard Azure apps in Partner Center

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Use the Partner Center submission API to programmatically query, create submissions for, and publish Azure offers. This API is useful if your account manages many offers and you want to automate and optimize the submission process for these offers.

API prerequisites

There are a few programmatic assets that you need in order to use the Partner Center API for Azure Products:

  • a Microsoft Entra application.
  • a Microsoft Entra access token.

Step 1: Complete prerequisites for using the Partner Center submission API

Before you start writing code to call the Partner Center submission API, make sure that you've completed the following prerequisites.

How to associate a Microsoft Entra application with your Partner Center account

To use the Microsoft Store submission API, you must associate a Microsoft Entra application with your Partner Center account, retrieve the tenant ID and client ID for the application, and generate a key. The Microsoft Entra application represents the app or service from which you want to call the Partner Center submission API. You need the tenant ID, client ID and key to obtain a Microsoft Entra access token that you pass to the API.

Note

You only need to perform this task once. After you have the tenant ID, client ID and key, you can reuse them any time you need to create a new Microsoft Entra access token.

  1. In Partner Center, associate your organization's Partner Center account with your organization's Microsoft Entra directory.
  2. Next, from the Users page in the Account settings section of Partner Center, add the Microsoft Entra application that represents the app or service that you will use to access submissions for your Partner Center account. Make sure you assign this application the Manager role. If the application doesn't exist yet in your Microsoft Entra directory, you can create a new Microsoft Entra application in Partner Center.
  3. Return to the Users page, click the name of your Microsoft Entra application to go to the application settings, and copy down the Tenant ID and Client ID values.
  4. Click Add new key. On the following screen, copy down the Key value. You won't be able to access this info again after you leave this page. For more information, see Manage keys for a Microsoft Entra application.

Step 2: Obtain a Microsoft Entra access token

Before you call any of the methods in the Partner Center submission API, you must first obtain a Microsoft Entra access token that you pass to the Authorization header of each method in the API. After you obtain an access token, you have 60 minutes to use it before it expires. After the token expires, you can refresh the token so you can continue to use it in future calls to the API.

To obtain the access token, follow the instructions in Service to Service Calls Using Client Credentials to send an HTTP POST to the https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenant_id>/oauth2/token endpoint. Here is a sample request:

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POST https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenant_id>/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: login.microsoftonline.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8

grant_type=client_credentials
&client_id=<your_client_id>
&client_secret=<your_client_secret>
&resource= https://api.partner.microsoft.com

For the tenant_id value in the POST URI and the client_id and client_secret parameters, specify the tenant ID, client ID and the key for your application that you retrieved from Partner Center in the previous section. For the resource parameter, you must specify https://api.partner.microsoft.com.

Step 3: Use the Microsoft Store submission API

After you have a Microsoft Entra access token, you can call methods in the Partner Center submission API. To create or update submissions, you typically call multiple methods in the Partner Center submission API in a specific order. For information about each scenario and the syntax of each method, see the Ingestion API Swagger.

https://ingestionapi-swagger.azureedge.net/#/

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