Azure B2C tenant deployment fails in Europe. Why? - azure

Question

I have this bicep file that deploys an Azure B2C tenant in location: 'Australia'
resource b2cDirectory 'Microsoft.AzureActiveDirectory/b2cDirectories#2021-04-01' = {
location: 'Australia'
name: 'tenantname1.onmicrosoft.com'
sku: {
name: 'PremiumP2'
tier: 'A0'
}
properties: {
createTenantProperties: {
countryCode: 'AU'
displayName: 'tenantname1 B1Cd223'
}
}
tags: {
Department: 'Dev'
}
}
This works fine. but it doesn't work for location: 'Europe' even though they say they support it.
This is the error I'm getting when I try to deploy this in location: 'Europe'.
Is this a temporary thing or am I missing something?

Answer 1

I tried in my environment and got below results:
Initially, I got same error in my environment.
{"status":"Failed","error":{"code":"Deployment Failed", "message":"Atleast one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deployment-operations for usage details.","details":[{"code":"InternalSer verError", "message":"{\r\n"error"; {\r\n" "code":
"ResourceDeploymentFailure",\r\n"message": "The response for resou rce had empty or invalid content."\r\n }\r\n}"}]}}_
I tried with some changes in bicep code as below :
test.bicep:
resource b2cDirectory 'Microsoft.AzureActiveDirectory/b2cDirectories#2021-04-01' = {
location: 'europe'
name: 'demotenant326.onmicrosoft.com'
sku: {
name: 'Standard'
tier: 'A0'
}
properties: {
createTenantProperties: {
countryCode: 'DE'
displayName: 'demo1tenantv B1Cd223'
}
}
tags: {
Department: 'pro'
}
}
In the above bicep file I changed sku, country code = 'DE' indicates **Germany**and it deploys an Azure B2C tenant with location: 'europe' successfully.
Console:
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -TemplateFile test.bicep -ResourceGroupName <your resource grp>
WARNING: /home/venkatesan/test.bicep(2,15) : Warning no-hardcoded-location: A resource location should not use a hard-coded string or variable value. Please use a parameter value, an expression, or the string 'global'. Found: 'europe' [https://aka.ms/bicep/linter/no-hardcoded-location]
DeploymentName : test
ResourceGroupName : <your resource grp>
ProvisioningState : Succeeded
Timestamp : 2/17/2023 8:08:56 AM
Mode : Incremental
TemplateLink :
Parameters :
Outputs :
DeploymentDebugLogLevel :
Reference:
Region availability and data residency - Azure AD B2C | Microsoft Learn