fix: improve register command reliability and error handling

[ragurubhaarath]

Summary

• Add retry with exponential backoff (3 attempts, 2s/4s/8s) for all post-registration Graph API calls (redirect URIs, API permissions)
• Escalate Graph API failures from warnings to errors — no more silent misconfiguration
• Demote ValidateResponseAsync body-level errors to debug so callers control the user-facing message

Test plan

• Build passes with 0 warnings
• All 1344 tests pass
• E2E: fresh registration on preprod succeeds (ext_WikiSearch)
• E2E: duplicate name registration shows friendly red error
• E2E: registration against local MCP Platform service succeeds

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Improves reliability of the register flow by adding retry/backoff and promoting Graph API misconfiguration from warnings to errors, especially around redirect URIs and API permissions.

Changes:

• Introduce a RetryHelper and wrap post-registration Graph API mutations with retries.
• Add additional redirect URIs for the Public Clients Entra app and improve failure handling/log levels.
• Escalate several Graph API failures from warning to error during redirect URI + permission configuration.

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Copilot reviewed 1 out of 1 changed files in this pull request and generated 8 comments.

[sellakumaran]

• id: 1
  file: src/Microsoft.Agents.A365.DevTools.Cli/Commands/RegisterCommandExecutor.cs
  line: 51
  title: "PR summary says '3 attempts, 2s/4s/8s' but code uses maxRetries: 5, baseDelaySeconds: 3"
  body: |
  The PR description states:
  "Add retry with exponential backoff (3 attempts, 2s/4s/8s)"

  The actual constructor call in the diff is:
    ```csharp
    _retryHelper = new RetryHelper(logger, maxRetries: 5, baseDelaySeconds: 3);
    ```
  
  With `maxRetries: 5, baseDelaySeconds: 3`, the effective wait schedule is:
    - Attempt 1: 3s delay
    - Attempt 2: 6s delay
    - Attempt 3: 12s delay
    - Attempt 4: 24s delay
    - Attempt 5: 48s delay (capped at 60s per `CalculateDelay`)
  
  Total maximum wait: 93 seconds. The old behavior was immediate failure (no retry at all).
  
  This is a significant latency increase in the failure case. For a user watching
  `a365 develop register-external-mcp-server` fail on a transient issue, 93 seconds of
  silent retries with only Debug-level messages is a poor UX.
  
  RECOMMENDATION: Either:
  1. Align the code with the PR description (maxRetries: 3, baseDelaySeconds: 2), or
  2. Update the PR description to reflect the actual values, and add at least one
     `LogInformation`-level message on each retry so users can see what is happening
     rather than waiting in silence.
  
  NOTE: The `RetryHelper` already logs at Debug level on each retry. Since `-v` enables
  debug output, verbose mode will show retries. However, the default (non-verbose) output
  is silent during retries, which may look like a hang to the user.
  

  • id: 2
    file: src/Microsoft.Agents.A365.DevTools.Cli/Commands/RegisterCommandExecutor.cs
    line: 777
    title: "Concurrent task fan-out uses abandoned tasks on early exception"
    body: |
    The new ConfigureEntraAppsAsync builds a list of tasks and calls await Task.WhenAll(tasks)
    at the end. However, between the task list being populated and WhenAll being called, there
    is a sequential await for ppmiScopeId:

    ```csharp
    var tasks = new List<Task>();
    // ... tasks.Add(UpdateA365RedirectUrisAsync(...)) ...
    // ... tasks.Add(UpdateRemoteProxyRedirectUrisAsync(...)) ...
    // ... tasks.Add(AddRemoteProxyScopePermissionAsync(...)) ...
    
    ppmiScopeId = await _retryHelper.ExecuteWithRetryAsync(   // <-- sequential await
        async ct => await _graphApiService!.GetOAuth2PermissionScopeIdAsync(...));
    
    // ... tasks.Add(AddPpmiPermissionAsync(...)) ...
    await Task.WhenAll(tasks);   // <-- tasks added BEFORE the sequential await are now running
    ```
    

    The tasks added before the ppmiScopeId sequential await start running immediately
    when Task.Add is called with hot tasks. If the sequential await throws (see CR-001),
    those tasks are abandoned with no await, leaving background Graph API calls whose results
    are never observed and whose exceptions are silently swallowed.

    FIX: Either:

    1. Fix CR-001 (wrap in try/catch) so the exception can't escape before WhenAll.
    2. Restructure so all tasks are added first, then awaited together:

       // Add all tasks without any intermediate sequential awaits, then:
       await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
       // Post-WhenAll: apply ppmi if scope was found

    3. Pre-fetch ppmiScopeId before populating the tasks list, or move the PPMI
       fetch entirely outside the parallel region.

  • id: 3
    enabled: true
    severity: medium
    file: src/Microsoft.Agents.A365.DevTools.Cli/Commands/RegisterCommandExecutor.cs
    line: 640
    title: "LogError with string-interpolated message variable — breaks structured logging"
    body: |
    Multiple new log calls pass a pre-built string variable as the message template:

    ```csharp
    var msg = $"Failed to set redirect URIs on Public Clients app '{publicClientsAppName}' after retries.";
    _logger.LogError(msg);    // <-- string variable as template
    warnings.Add(msg);
    ```
    

    This pattern is present throughout the PR's new code (UpdateA365RedirectUrisAsync,
    UpdateRemoteProxyRedirectUrisAsync, AddRemoteProxyScopePermissionAsync, AddPpmiPermissionAsync,
    and the public-clients section). While it is a pre-existing pattern in some parts of
    this file, the PR introduces ~12 new instances.

    The issue: passing a variable as the first argument to LogError defeats the structured
    logging pipeline — the message template is not a constant, so log sinks cannot index or
    aggregate by template. It also triggers the CA2254 analyzer warning ("The logging message
    template should not vary between calls").

    FIX: Use named placeholders:
    csharp _logger.LogError( "Failed to set redirect URIs on Public Clients app '{AppName}' after retries.", publicClientsAppName); warnings.Add($"Failed to set redirect URIs on Public Clients app '{publicClientsAppName}' after retries.");

  • id: 4
    file: CHANGELOG.md
    line: 7
    title: "Missing CHANGELOG entry for user-visible behavior change"
    body: |
    This PR makes two user-visible behavior changes that meet the ### Fixed threshold:

    1. Post-registration Graph API failures are now escalated from warnings to errors.
       Users who previously saw yellow warning output for failed redirect URI / permission
       configuration will now see red error output. This changes observable CLI behavior.

    2. The register-external-mcp-server command now retries Graph API calls instead of
       failing immediately. This is observable: a registration that previously failed in
       under 1 second now takes up to 90+ seconds to produce an error.

    Per .github/copilot-instructions.md:
    "For user-facing changes (features, bug fixes, behavioral changes): verify
    CHANGELOG.md has an entry in the [Unreleased] section"

    ADD to CHANGELOG.md under [Unreleased] > ### Fixed:
    markdown ### Fixed - `develop register-external-mcp-server`: post-registration Graph API calls for redirect URI and API permission configuration now retry with exponential backoff (up to 5 attempts) to handle AAD replication lag. Failures are now surfaced as errors rather than warnings.

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