Delete a tenant

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Delete a tenant

Kris Hahn 40

I'm trying to access my Key Vault I setup but I'm not connecting from my laptop. I have some other tenants on my machine from previous jobs and I'm trying to delete them but it errors when I try to delete the tenant. It says I don't have access.

{"sessionId":"7a2a204f9ec2447c8ac1a61ff71feb02","subscriptionId":"","resourceGroup":"","errorCode":"401","resourceName":"","details":"You don't have access to this data."}

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Michele Ariis 7,215 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi, you can’t delete those old tenants because you’re not an admin in them anymore. If they came from previous jobs, your account is still listed in those directories, but you don’t have the permissions needed to remove the tenant, so Azure shows “You don’t have access”. Only someone who is a Global Admin in those organisations can either delete the tenant or remove your account from it.

This doesn’t affect your Key Vault; you just need to make sure you’re signed into the correct tenant in the Azure portal (top-right → Switch directory). Once you’re in the right directory, your Key Vault should be accessible. The old tenants will stay there until their admins remove you.

Kris Hahn 40 Reputation points

2026-01-14T17:04:07.2933333+00:00

What said makes sense but I thought the tenant might have been my problem is why I was looking to delete it.

I have logged into Azure and create my key vault and given Key Vault Secrets User access to my user, but it isn't getting logged if I use either VS 2026 or the CLI.

When I try the CLI and do an az login it pops up for my selection and I select the account I am logged into Azure with but it comes back and states "No subscription found for XXXX.com" Which is the email I'm logged into Azure with.
Michele Ariis 7,215 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2026-01-15T07:07:38.3766667+00:00

The issue isn’t the old tenants. The CLI error “No subscription found” means you’re signing into a tenant that your account belongs to, but that tenant has no Azure subscription assigned. Since your email exists in multiple directories, the portal may be using the right tenant while the CLI logs you into a different one. After az login, run az account list to see all tenants, then select the one that actually contains your subscription with az account set --subscription "<ID>". Once the CLI is pointed to the correct tenant, your Key Vault access will work normally.

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