Unable to assign owner to Enterprise Application

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Unable to assign owner to Enterprise Application

Lianpeng Sun 80 Microsoft Employee

Hello Azure Support,

We have an Enterprise Application in our tenant with Client ID:<PII REMOVED>

Currently, this application does not have any owners, and under Roles and Administrators, there are no users assigned. Because of this, we cannot add a new owner or manage the application's properties.

Could you please advise on the correct procedure to assign a new owner to this Enterprise Application?

Thank you for your assistance.

Shubham Sharma 17,925 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-03-23T07:21:55.7366667+00:00

Hello Lianpeng Sun

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

I will be connecting with you on teams shortly.

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Shubham Sharma 17,925 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-03-23T07:21:55.7366667+00:00

Hello Lianpeng Sun

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

I will be connecting with you on teams shortly.

Answer 1

Hello Lianpeng Sun

As discussed over teams, Check your role

• You must be one of these built-in roles in Microsoft Entra (AAD): – Cloud Application Administrator – Application Administrator • If you’re not in one of those roles, ask a Global Admin to assign you one, or to do the owner-assign step for you.

Assign via the Entra admin center (portal) • Sign in at https://entra.microsoft.com/ with your Cloud Application Administrator or Application Administrator account • Navigate to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > All applications • Select your application (you’ll need the Object ID – the “Client ID” you mentioned is the appId, but you can also grab the service principal Object ID from the overview page) • Click Owners (on the left blade) then Add • Search for and select the user you want to make an owner, click Select

Sign in to the Azure portal

https://portal.azure.com

Go to Microsoft Entra ID

Select Roles and administrators

Click Global Administrator

You will see the list of users who are assigned the Global Administrator role in the tenant

Microsoft Azure

Direct Entra admin center path (new portal)

You can also go directly via:

https://entra.microsoft.com

Identity → Roles & admins → Global Administrator

Microsoft Entra admin center

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