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Register app details for Partner Center for Microsoft National Cloud through the Azure portal

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Applies to: Partner Center for Microsoft Cloud for US Government

Developers must register details about their app with Microsoft Entra ID through Microsoft Azure portal. This helps ensure that only specified apps are able to connect to partner and customer data.

For Partner Center for Microsoft Cloud for US Government, you currently must manage apps through PowerShell. For more information, see the Azure PowerShell reference documentation.

The Partner Center PowerShell module can be used to manage Partner Center resources. It's an open-source project maintained by the partner community and not officially supported by Microsoft. You can get help from the community or open an issue on GitHub if you experience a problem.

Be aware of the following additional requirements when you create an app for Partner Center for Microsoft Cloud for US Government.

Add a new web app in Partner Center

For web apps, use the following procedures to register your application ID.

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Partner Center.
  2. Navigate to Account settings > App Management.
  3. In the Web App section, select Add new web app. You’ll be redirected to Microsoft Azure Government.

Native apps

Native apps don't need to be registered to Partner Center, however, these apps need to be configured to provide access to Partner Center APIs.

Note

Before creating a native app in the Azure portal, log in into Partner Center using the admin user credentials from the partner tenant. This creates the settings on the tenant to enable app permissions.

Create native app

  1. Go to the Azure portal - App registrations page to register your app. Sign-in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account or a personal Microsoft account.
  2. Select New registration. For more information, see Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform.

Configure API access permissions for native app

  1. Select your app. Go to Settings.

  2. In API Access, select Required permissions.

  3. Select Windows Entra permissions. In Delegated permissions, select these permissions:

    • Sign in and read user profile
    • Read directory data
    • Access the directory as the signed-in user
    • Read all groups

  4. Save the permissions.

  5. Select Add in Required permissions.

  6. Select Select an API. In the search box, enter Microsoft Partner Center and select it from the results list.

  7. Select Done.

Important

Note the application ID in the Properties of your app.

You don't need to register native apps in Partner Center, however the native app must be admin consented.