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How to transfer free Azure account to a different tenant

vanja pandzic 40 Reputation points
2023-01-17T20:34:41.8933333+00:00

Hi everyone!

I'm facing a peculiar situation - I decided to sign up for a free Azure account today, and successfully completed a registration with my current account (on which I'm already paying for Microsoft 365 subscription). Put down a credit card and everything.

Lo and behold, my free Azure subscription got a assigned to an old tenant that I have apparently unknowingly created and have certainly forgotten about when I was employed at my old employer and we were testing MS Teams as an official chat tool. I have no idea how that got created, since I was completely new to the platform (still am).

The problem is, that tenant is completely fake / random - location is set to Bangladesh and I cannot change it, its name is a random keyboard mash (yyfsfs or something similar), and although I can change both the domain name that is used and the name of the tenant, it's still listed (yyfsfs) as an original domain that I cannot delete.

The biggest problem is that my free account is apparently tied to Bangladesh and servers in Asia.

I would like to rectify this, but quite frankly I'm close to giving up. I already tried creating a new tenant with the correct info - which I can, and I can even successfully transfer the subscription to that tenant!

Except the payment method is still stuck on the Bangladesh one and I am not sure if I can move it. I cannot delete a tenant while a payment method / subscription is linked to it, which I would prefer to see deleted since it simplifies management for a beginner.

Currently the Azure subscription is cancelled, to not incur additional costs, but I would like to reactivate it.

Is there a manageable way to accomplish what I need to?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Alfredo Revilla - Upwork Top Talent | IAM SWE SWA 27,461 Reputation points
    2023-01-18T16:43:48.46+00:00

    Hello, in order to fully move the desired Azure subscription without leaving it linked to any biilling element from the old tenant you will have to Transfer billing ownership of an MOSP Azure subscription to another account, one preferibly from the new tenant. Take a look to Transfer an Azure subscription to a different Azure AD directory for complete instructions. Be aware some resources may have to be re-created.

    Let us know if you need additional assistance. If the answer was helpful, please accept it so that others can find a solution.

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