diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e92dc67bf3d95d76dc9f2b3ef7c4736a34efa623..f9093e5af99de1ed9a0a1cbe1b500c7a01f87e89 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,3 +65,17 @@ You need to connect to our feed on [Azure DevOps](https://slb-swt.visualstudio.c
     </dependencies>
 </project>
 ```
+
+## Changes to support newly Added transaction logger and slf4jlogger
+The consumer service might run into multiple logger bindings error on start up
+which can be fixed by excluding some of the logger dependencies.
+
+Note: Below are reference PRs for exclusion and might change from service to service
+
+Refer this [MR](https://community.opengroup.org/osdu/platform/security-and-compliance/entitlements-azure/-/merge_requests/13) as reference on how to exclude dependencies along with how to enable the 
+Enabled transaction logger and slf4jlogger
+## Environment variables to be added in application.properties to consume the TenantFactoryImpl
+| name | value | description |
+| ---  | ---   | ---         |
+| `tenantInfo.container.name` | `TenantInfo` | cosmos container name |
+| `azure.cosmosdb.database` | ex `dev-osdu-r2-db` | cosmos databse name |
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c4e11784bdac94c5d19348ee61f56d79a037b919..e8cfd97bbc4b92ae3837ad28b1f630ad1d11b929 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <groupId>org.opengroup.osdu</groupId>
   <artifactId>core-lib-azure</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>0.0.17</version>
+  <version>0.0.18</version>
   <name>core-lib-azure</name>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/di/CosmosDBConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/di/CosmosDBConfiguration.java
index 1f90097fd3e32d58f45ff25b21de295252b2a152..792f2ec855a20d1165a22f88f4c682854a7ba586 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/di/CosmosDBConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/di/CosmosDBConfiguration.java
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ package org.opengroup.osdu.azure.di;
 import lombok.Getter;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
 
 /**
  * A configuration bean class to set up CosmosDb variables.
  */
 @Configuration
 @Getter
+@Lazy
 public class CosmosDBConfiguration {
 
     @Value("${tenantInfo.container.name}")
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index d817f227c62398260efe79c3a1446363c18c94d7..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright © Microsoft Corporation
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-# Azure CosmosDB configuration
-tenantInfo.container.name=TenantInfo
-azure.cosmosdb.database=${cosmosdb_database}
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