Transfer DNS Zone from one subscription to another

Question

I created a DNS Zone within a personal Azure subscription and am looking to move this DNS Zone over to another Azure subscription. I am the global admin for both subscriptions and have added my source login account as a guest on my target subscription and assigned him as a Contributor there for the resource group as well as an Owner. I can see the target tenant within the Azure portal change tenant option and can login there without issue.

When I look at the screen for my DNS Zone I perform these steps:

1. MOVE
2. Move to another subscription

From here I am presented with option of selecting a target subscription to move the DNS Zone to, but the target subscription does not show up in the list.

And that's the problem. Apparently this is something that should be available, but it just isn't. Is there another way to perhaps do this?

Answer 1

Hello @Charlie McCracken , Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A forum.

As per my understanding from the question above, you are trying to move the Azure DNS zone to another subscription as shown below.

I think the probable cause for this issue is due different Tenant ID of the Azure Subscriptions. As per this Checklist before moving resources step 5 The source and destination subscriptions must exist within the same Azure Active Directory tenant. If the tenant IDs for the source and destination subscriptions aren't the same, use the following methods to reconcile the tenant IDs:

• Transfer ownership of an Azure subscription to another account
• How to associate or add an Azure subscription to Azure Active Directory

This information is currently documented in Azure DNS FAQ

Another approach you can explore here is try to Import and export a DNS zone file. Azure DNS supports importing and exporting zone files via the Azure CLI.

Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any additional concerns, I will be glad to continue with our discussion. Thank you!