Share via

Subsidiary Tenant

Anonymous
2023-05-15T01:27:46+00:00

I have two small businesses and I would like each to be able to represent themselves as distinct entities when I communicate to clients. I'd prefer to avoid the headache of setting up a wholly separate tenant with different accounts for management, licensing, billing, etc. Is there a way to do that? If I simply pull in a second domain, I can make email and Teams work, but Organization Name is still and only ever Tenant 1. I think with a trust setup I can tackle management, but will that allow me to assign an M365 license from Tenant 1 to a user in Tenant 2? And if I do assign a license from T1 to T2, will things like Teams & Sharepoint show the original tenant organization name or the new one?

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For business | Other

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-15T03:20:54+00:00

    Dear mongojimmy,

    Good day!

    Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are glad to assist.

    As per your mentioned description about "Subsidiary Tenant". Based on my knowledge if tenants 1 and 2 are separate, settings and licenses will be separate and cannot be mixed use unless like they have 1.com and 2.com. they can merge into one tenant. Yet same tenant cannot be distinct entities.

    However, you may check with Azure AD B2B collaboration overview - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn if it can provide any suitable information about your mentioned concern. Kindly Keep in mind that B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect are designed for collaboration between organizations, and not for merging or consolidating tenants. You will still need to manage each tenant separately, including licensing, billing, and management.

    In the meantime, I would like to share some information with you, Microsoft has specific dedicated support channel for certain different aspect and attributes, would you mind to also post your concern on our specific Microsoft Q&A forum community for certain different support scope? Our relevant community members can further provide you possible information from their side. Here is that dedicated forum community to place your concern: Microsoft Q&A

    Thanks for your understanding! Your patience and cooperation will be highly appreciated. Have a nice day!

    Best regards,

    Inema | Microsoft Community Moderator

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments