Assigning contributor role for subscription to new user (with company email address) fails

Question

I want to add a new team member to my Microsoft Azure Sponsorship subscription as a Contributor.

On portal.azure.com, I

• clicked on Subscriptions
• Selected the Microsoft Azure Sponsorship
• Clicked Access control (IAM)
• By clicking on View My Access, verified that I have the Service Administrator role
• Clicked on Add role assignment
• Under Role -> Privileged administrator roles, selected Contributor
• Clicked Members -> Select members and typed the company email address of the new team member
• Selected that user (with "Guest" behind the email address), noting the following: "This user will be sent an email that enables them to collaborate with Kodex AI GmbH."
• Clicked on Review + assign
• Got the following error message: "Failed to invite

Answer 1

Hi @Claus Lang

Thank you for posting this in Microsoft Q&A.

I understand that you are trying to add a new team member to your Microsoft Azure Sponsorship subscription as a Contributor, but you are receiving an error message "Failed to invite".

Service Administrator role is not a built-in role in azure, it is a custom role. Can you please check the permissions on the role.

To assign Azure roles i.e. contributor role, you must have: Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write permissions, such as Role Based Access Control Administrator or User Access Administrator on your subscription.

For your reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-external-users

If you still encountering issue, please respond via comments section.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

Thanks,

Navya

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