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The current consumption of an Azure Plan is also available to the BSS users from the "Usage Records" tab which resides beside the subscription's "Basic Information" tab. 

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For more details, please check Viewing the Consumption of an Azure Plan Subscription.

New API Methods for getting Azure Plan Usages

The following methods are now available for the version 2.2 of our API:

Azure Plan for Tenant Resellers

In this release we completed the last pending issue for fully supporting the Azure plans for the tenant resellers: The margin / markup a reseller defines in his BSS for the Azure plan subscription is applied to his cost (what he pays to indirect CSP) and not to Microsoft's cost (what a indirect CSP pays to Microsoft).

Microsoft Provisioning Mechanism - Handling of Microsoft API timeouts

There are cases where Microsoft Partner Center API returns the error "The operation has timed out" as a response. In such situations our system returns the subscription to failed status and it is unaware if the provisioning action has been completed successfully or not in Microsoft systems. This error usually happens because of latency issues from Microsoft side. 

For better managing these timeout incidents, we decided to introduce a retry process where we will do up to 3 attempts for getting a valid response from Microsoft API. Only when all attempts fail, we will then return the status of the subscriptions to failed. Also, for protecting our system for creating duplicate subscriptions in MS partner center, we have introduced the use of MS-requestId in each retry call in order to ensure id-potency. Microsoft ensures that using the same RequestId for each retry call you will not get duplicate results for this request.

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