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So when I sign in to my Azure Portal I have an option to switch directories.
On the list of directories is one for an old client that no longer exists.
How do I remove that old directory from my list of available directories?
Is this a B2C (business to customer) directory?
@Tony Nicholls
Thank you for your post!
Any additional information or screenshots would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.
@Tony Nicholls
I just wanted to check in and see if you had any other questions or if you were able to resolve this issue?
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Hi @Tony Nicholls ,
Thank you for your post!!
You can follow the steps on the below documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/directory-delete-howto
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Thanks,
Akash Chopra
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Unfortunately this doesn't address my issue. I'll try to be more explicit with the use case :)
I have an Azure/Office directory, let's call it GI.com. Within that directory I have an AD User, let's call that ******@GI.com.
A few years ago I had a client who invited me as a guest to do some work in their Azure AD domain, let's call that C.com which I joined using my ******@GI.com account.
So signed in as ******@GI.Com I could go to the Azure portal and switch directory to C.com to do some work on their AD account. At the end of the engagement I used the Office portal's "My Organizations" to Leave C.com. That seemed to go well and C.com was no longer showing up on my list of organizations in the office portal.
However, what I couldn't see was that the guest account wasn't removed from my list of guest directories in the Azure portal. So if I sign into the Azure portal and go to switch directories, I can still see the entry for C.com. I can even switch to that directory but as they have removed my guest account I can no longer do anything in c.com.
So far this has just been an mildly annoying glitch in the data for my AD user. The thing that has now made it painful is that when I try to sign into the Visual Studio application the authentication is trying to route to the C.com directory - which is of course failing. VS isn't giving me an option to route to my actual home account ******@GI.com. So I either need a way to remove the bad data from my Azure AD user (without destroying my user account) or a method for specifying how I want VS to authenticate bypassing the bad data.
@Tony Nicholls
Thank you for the detailed follow-up on this!
When it comes to your Azure AD user ******@GI.com, it sounds like you've already left the organization via the Office/ MyAccount's Portal - https://myaccount.microsoft.com. However, when a B2B collaboration user leaves an organization, the user's account is "soft deleted" in the directory. By default, the user object moves to the Deleted users area in Azure AD, but permanent deletion doesn't start for 30 days.
Since you're trying to remove this tenant, and the Azure AD tenant is for an old client that no longer exists, you should be able to remove it from your user's Azure Active Directory under the Manage your Tenants tab.
Additional Link:
Leave an organization as an external user
I've also added the Visual Studio tag to this thread to see if their community can look into Visual Studio authenticating to a specific tenant during sign-in to hopefully help resolve your issue.
If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.
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Hi @JamesTran-MSFT ,
Thanks for taking the time to help out with this but unfortunately the old account doesn't show up here either :(
It shows the same accounts as I see on the office portal in "my organizations" blade.
The bad data isn't on the list I see when I go to manage tenants.
Any other options for purging this? Is there a powershell command to kill it?
Cheers, Tony
@Tony Nicholls
Thank you for following up on this and I apologize for the delayed response!
Can you share a screenshot of what you're seeing so I can gain a better understanding of your issue?