Can we have multiple tenants under single Azure subscription

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Can we have multiple tenants under single Azure subscription

lakshmi 816

I have a subscription in azure account and I wanted to create resource group for the sales team and a IT service desk group with different tenant.

Can I create more than 1 tenant in single subscription

SilverAndR 0 Reputation points

2023-07-21T10:36:31.8766667+00:00

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SilverAndR 0 Reputation points

2023-07-21T10:36:31.8766667+00:00

Having my own app, my main task is to attract customers and provide them with the best conditions, as well as quality content. Especially the one that comes with a subscription. In many ways, articles like How to integrate In-App Purchases (IAP) in Unity application help me, with the help of which it is easy to understand new technologies and use them for monetization.

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Vedant Desai 656

No, you cannot create more than one tenant in a single subscription. A subscription can only be associated with a single Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

If you need to create resource groups for different tenants, you will need to create separate subscriptions for each tenant.

Here are the steps to create a new subscription:

Go to the Azure portal.
In the left navigation pane, select "Subscriptions".
Click "Create subscription".
In the "Create subscription" blade, enter a name for your subscription and select a subscription type.
Click "Create".

Once you have created a new subscription, you can create resource groups for different tenants.

Here are the steps to create a new resource group:

Go to the Azure portal.
In the left navigation pane, select "Resource groups".
Click "Create resource group".
In the "Create resource group" blade, enter a name for your resource group and select a subscription.
Select a region for your resource group.
Click "Create".

Once you have created a new resource group, you can create resources in the resource group for the different tenants.

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lakshmi 816 Reputation points

2023-05-17T06:32:30.18+00:00

@Vedant Desai ,

Thanks for your response,

In this scenario, can we share the resources across subscriptions. (application gateway, app service and language service or azure search service)

We already have an setup for sharing application gateway for 2 resource group under same subscription .

Can we implement the same across the subscription.
Vedant Desai 656 Reputation points

2023-05-17T07:10:56.4966667+00:00
Yes, you can share resources across subscriptions in Azure. However, there are some limitations and considerations that you need to be aware of.

For example, you can share Application Gateways, App Services, and Azure Search Services across subscriptions. However, you cannot share Language Services across subscriptions.

To share resources across subscriptions, you need to create a resource sharing policy. A resource sharing policy allows you to specify which resources can be shared, and with whom.

Once you have created a resource sharing policy, you can then add resources to the policy. When you add a resource to the policy, you need to specify the subscription that the resource belongs to.

Once you have added resources to the policy, you can then share the resources with other users or groups. To share a resource, you need to specify the user or group that you want to share the resource with.

When you share a resource, the user or group will be able to access the resource in their own subscription.

Here are the steps on how to share resources across subscriptions in Azure:

Go to the Azure portal.

Click on the "Resource groups" blade.

Select the resource group that contains the resources that you want to share.

Click on the "Settings" tab.

Click on the "Resource sharing" blade.

Click on the "Create policy" button.

In the "Create resource sharing policy" dialog box, enter a name for the policy.

Select the resources that you want to share.

Select the subscriptions that you want to share the resources with.

Click on the "Create" button.

Once you have created the resource sharing policy, you can then add resources to the policy. To add resources to the policy, follow these steps:

Go to the Azure portal.

Click on the "Resource groups" blade.

Select the resource group that contains the resources that you want to add to the policy.

Click on the "Settings" tab.

Click on the "Resource sharing" blade.

In the "Resource sharing" blade, select the policy that you want to add the resources to.

Click on the "Add resources" button.

In the "Add resources" dialog box, select the resources that you want to add to the policy.

Click on the "Add" button.

Once you have added resources to the policy, you can then share the resources with other users or groups. To share a resource, follow these steps:

Go to the Azure portal.

Click on the "Resource groups" blade.

Select the resource group that contains the resource that you want to share.

Click on the "Settings" tab.

Click on the "Resource sharing" blade.

In the "Resource sharing" blade, select the policy that contains the resource that you want to share.

Click on the "Share" button.

In the "Share resource" dialog box, enter the email addresses of the users or groups that you want to share the resource with.

Click on the "Share" button.

Once you have shared a resource, the user or group will be able to access the resource in their own subscription.please do let me know if you have any other doubt
lakshmi 816 Reputation points

2023-05-18T04:51:59.3866667+00:00

@Vedant Desai , we are not seeing the "Resource sharing" blade in resource group settings tab. We have checked all the tabs under settings and we couldn't see any option for resource sharing
lakshmi 816 Reputation points

2023-05-23T10:24:56.52+00:00

@Vedant Desai , is there any update on this , is it a preview feature or do we have the same functionality in the azure

Answer 2

JamesTran-MSFT 36,911 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@lakshmi

Thank you for your post!

I understand that you have a question regarding Azure Subscriptions and whether or not you can associate another Tenant with a single Azure Subscription. Unfortunately, this isn't possible since Subscriptions can only trust a single directory while one Azure AD may be trusted by multiple subscriptions. For more info.

When it comes to your issue of creating a Resource Group within different Azure tenants for the Sales Team and IT Service Desk group, you'll have to use two separate Subscriptions in order to accomplish this.

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If your organization needs an efficient way to manage access, policies, and compliance for your Sales and IT service desk subscriptions, you can look into leveraging Management groups.

I hope this helps!

If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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JAVIER BRYT 0 Reputation points

2024-06-23T10:06:41.66+00:00
It sound logical but in Microsoft documentation we have contradicting information:

in Microsoft learn Learn

Training >Browse>Understand Microsoft Entra ID UNIT 2

"Within an Azure subscription, you can create multiple Microsoft Entra tenants"
And then , immediately after it is written : "At any given time, an Azure subscription must be associated with one, and only one, Microsoft Entra tenant"
JAVIER BRYT 0 Reputation points

2024-06-23T10:14:12.58+00:00

I just realize that what it means is that u can create additional tenants within a subscription but u cannot link to the subscription more than one

Answer 3

Chen, Yongrui (Ray) 0

Sales team and a IT service desk group can't be under one active directory?

thanks

Ray

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