I am setting up some simple Azure services for a company that does not have an IT team yet. My three goals are
The company has to use the Azure portal minimally. The owner is not tech-oriented.
The company can add billing information for the subscription themselves without having to give me all that information.
I can eventually transfer ownership of the azure entity (directory? tenant?) to an IT team.
I cannot find the answer online because all the documentation is oriented towards an IT that works for the company as opposed to freelancer. I am currently using my personal Microsoft account but am able to get a company Microsoft account if needed via their parent organization (which does have IT). Using my personal account, I've created a new tenant then switched to that directory. In that directory I've attempted to add a subscription but it switches me back to my default directory. If I switch to the new directory again, I get the error "In order to view your eligible offers, please click here to switch your directory to {my account}.onmicrosoft.com"
I would appreciate an in-depth answer as I am not familiar with the administration side of Azure.
In the past there was both the separate website AND the Azure classic portal for managing Signin Apps. In the Classic portal it would give you the ability to edit the ReplyUrls.
In the new portal no matter how you create an app (Enterprise or Application Registration) you can't edit your ReplyUrls from the UI. (With Application you can set them the first time but then they don't show up in the Application list from then on so it's impossible to edit them)
Meanwhile these same apps can have their replyUrls updated using Powershell without any problem.
To me this is a blocker bug, but maybe I'm doing something wrong? I've successfully gotten only 1 application to show up under application registrations. All others including ones created back in the Azure Classic day show up in Enterprise applications without even the Sign On Option showing up in the list of options for the application per the instructions on Microsoft's website.
I can private message an app Id as an example.
The user experience of the Azure portal changed for the worse (in my opinion).
I also had trouble finding my old apps... turns out they are now "hidden" by default.
they don't show up in the Application list from then on so it's impossible to edit them)
You will find them under "all apps".
I'm trying to get a DropDown list in my PowerApps app to connect its Items to a specific group of users, with help of Azure.
In other words: populate the DropDown with a list of names, e.g. the members of the Economics group I have created elsewhere.
Apparently, following the link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Import-a-List-of-users-from-Azure-AD-Group/td-p/54160 ,
in PowerApps this is not working as-is:
Items = AzureAD.GetGroupMembers("xxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx").value
(Error: "Calling an unknown or not supported function").
I suspect I have to go to the Azure portal and enable something in Azure AD to get it to work, but I feel a bit intimidated before the sheer amount of settings and options
available here. Could anybody please give some guidance?
EDIT: I must not necessarily have Azure doing this (someway it feels like calling the fire department to fill a glass of water for me). If I could do it some other way, feel free to tell me!
Before the AzureAD.GetGroupMembers will be recognised in your app, you have to:
Add Azure AD to your connections in the PowerApps portal
Add the Azure AD connection to your app
I'm following this tutorial here
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/get-started/#nextsteps
I'm at step 3. I click import, I can see I'm signed in with my MSDN ultimate account (I get $150 per month to spend on Azure). I then click New, and when the dialogue opens I cannot enter anything (all boxes are disabled), along with an error message in red:
http://gyazo.com/17eb15f07d54e2867cd5f21d377f04aa
Why is this? It is something with my MSDN account?
You can get also this problem if your MS account is registered with more than one Azure subscription. It appears Visual studio gets confused if your account is attached to more than one subscription and tries to use the wrong one for accessing the Azure API.
If it occurs you need to ignore the advice from #Dev Trails and instead do the following:
In Server Explorer, right-click Windows Azure node > Manage Subscriptions
In the Certificates tab Import a new subscription certificate (this will take you to the current link on the Azure portal to download your
certificate)
In the Subscriptions tab, on the specific subscription that fails,
select the drop-down and choose the certificate instead of the
username.
Refreshing the Azure explorer should now show your databases etc without error.
This is a bug in Visual Studio 2013. Found an answer posted here:
To workaround the issue, you can try the following:
In Server Explorer, right-click Windows Azure node > Manage Subscriptions
If you are signed-in to Azure, you will see the same subscription show up both in the Accounts tab and in the Certificates tab. Remove the one in the Certificates tab.
VS 2015: delete all MS Account from VS. Add once again.
I had a free trial with windows azure, I was out of the country and it ran out.
I have now upgraded to a pay-as-you-go account. All good.
However, my previous websites still run off my old subscription, is there any way to reactivate these websites using my new pay-as-you-go subscription?
If you upgraded the existing free account versus opened a new pay-as-you-go account, this should have been a seamless transition.
You can contact support - use the Billing Questions option and then select Transfer Subscription, and they should be able to help you.
Alternatively, of course, you could redeploy your assets to the new subscription.
I created a "Billing" ticket with microsoft. There is a type of ticket as you go through their wizard specifically for this. They were able to upgrade my "Free Trial" to the pay as you go AFTER i had let the free trial expire. The downside was that all my virtual machines were deleted. It did however give me access to my websites and storage without any problem. I was able to recreate all the VM's using the storage vhd's.
My experience on this is that I just redeploy to a new website I created under new subscription. I didn't find a way to move them over to new subscription.
You can move SQL Azure to new subscription, but not website. To move SQL Azure to new subscription, you will need to use old Azure portal management. Follow this step:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/07/moving-sql-azure-servers-between-subscriptions.aspx
Note that you are moving the server where the database lives. So, if you have more than one DB in the same server, everything will be moved.
You can move Azure SQL DB from one subscription to another on https://manage.windowsazure.com
Both subscriptions should in the same Default Directory. If they are in different directories then select:
Subscriptions
Manage subscriptions/directory
Select subscription and click "Edit" at the bottom.
Choose directory where other subscription and click "Next".
When both subscriptions in the same directory.
Choose "SQL Databases"
Select proper server
and in Quick Glance you should see "Change subscription"
The documentation in the link stack247 posted is now outdated. To change the target subscription for a database, you have to change the target subscription of the server for the database. There are several ways to navigate to the server, but here is just one example:
Click on the database tab
Click on the name of the database you want to change
In the dashboard view, click on the link to the server in the quick glance section. This is on the bottom right corner of the view.
In the dashboard view, click on the Change Subscription link in the quick glance section. This is on the right side of the view.
Change the Target Subscription, and click the check button.
As far as changing the subscription for a website or cloud service, I would do what is recommended above; and republish the website or cloud service. When you publish, change the settings to target a different subscription by clicking on the previous button.
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If you have a bunch of assets that need to be moved to another account, create a ticket with the Azure helpdesk. You will have to do the above and switch out the accounts for the databases/servers, but Microsoft is able to run a script on their end that moves everything. Depending on the size of your assets, it may take a little longer. Fortunately for me, it was only a day to move everything. I would recommend doing this instead of publishing everything a second time.
https://manage.windowsazure.com/?getsupport=true
All the solutions mentioned above are now outdated.
In the https://portal.azure.com/,
For SQL Servers, go in the "SQL Servers" menu, select the server to change. In the Overview, click on the Edit button, located right to the name of the subscription.
For WebApps, go to the "App Service plans" menu, select your plan, click on the Resource Group and in the Overview, click on the Edit button, located right to the name of the subscription.