FAQ: How to know when a customer has purchased and deployed a VM offer?

Q: I'm looking to publish a VM offer and want to know when a customer has made a purchase and deployed the VM. My questions around this are: 1) Is there any kind of automated notification that is sent when a customer deploys a 3P offer from the store, and 2) If they just used their own IP to "call home" when the VM starts, is there any way to inject information from the purchase which can be used in that call, like Tenant ID for example but without requiring an identity to make Azure calls from within the VM?

 

A: 

1.  There is no automatic notification to the publisher for deployed VMs, but the publisher can use the Partner Center API to retrieve information about the current deployments or use the Partner Center - Insights report to view the current deployments.
2. The publisher can deploy their own code to send notifications and use the metadata services available to all VM Offers to get information about the offer, plan, regions, etc. Learn more here:
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/instance-metadata-service