Following on from this question, I don't understand what the difference between an Azure Tenant, Azure Directory and Azure Active Directory.
When I log in to Azure and click my profile it lets me Switch Directory.
In my case I can switch to my company directory and also to the directory of another company where I have guest credits.
Does Directory in this context mean the same as Azure Active Directory?
The documentation says a tenant is:
Azure tenant: A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD that's
automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft
cloud service subscription, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune,
or Office 365. An Azure tenant represents a single organization.
So is Tenant the same as Directory in this case as well?
Yes, in this case the tenant is the same as an Azure AD. In the Azure portal you are changing Azure Active Directories when you use the Switch Directory feature. You can currently only be in the context of a single directory at a time; however, as the previous question you pointed to indicates, multiple subscriptions can be tied to a tenant/directory. So when you are in the context of a directory you'll see all the subscriptions under that tenant to which you have access to one or more resources based on security.
To be fair, I use Azure AD Tenant/Azure AD Directory interchangeably. The Portal UI calls them directories; however, the properties on resources, REST APIs, CLI commands, etc. all refer to it as a tenant.
Directory == Tenant.
When you utilize azure services, the TenantId will be requested. The TenantId is non other than the DirectoryId which can be found in the Properties tab within Azure Active Directory.
Furthermore, as answered in the link you provided:
"Subscriptions are tied to tenants. so 1 tenant can have many subscriptions, but not vice versa."
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources
Tenant is a digital representation of the organization.
Azure Active Directory creating a directory objects in the form of tenant name. Azure Active Directory and tenants are interrelated.
In total, the Azure AD Tenant provides identity and access management (IAM) capabilities to applications and resources.
Link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/education/deploy/intro-azure-active-directory#what-is-an-azure-ad-tenant
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Microsoft says, "In Azure Active Directory a tenant is an instance of Azure Active Directory that an organization receives when it signs up for a cloud application like Microsoft 365."
Could anyone explain what it means for a tenant to be an instance of the Azure Active Directory?
I know that an instance is basically a virtual machine. However, I'm failing to see how that definition applies in this particular context.
In your context, Instance of Azure Active Directory means Azure tenant.
I agree with #Peter Bons, Azure tenant is a dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD.
Tenant refers to a single instance of Azure Active Directory.
Please note that tenant will be automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription.
To make it simple, you can consider it as parent group that includes users and groups along with the access control to application and resources.
A tenant is associated with a single identity and can have one or several subscriptions.
Based on your requirement, you can have single tenant or multitenant.
Every tenant is linked to a single Azure AD instance, which is shared with all tenant's subscriptions.
Azure AD Tenants are globally unique and have scopes with a domain name ending with ‘onmicrosoft.com’ and has a Tenant ID in the form of UUID/GUID.
For more in detail, please refer below links:
Understanding Tenants, Subscriptions, Regions and Geographies in Azure – siliconvalve
What is Azure Active Directory Tenant and How to create (azurelib.com)
If I created a new tenant (of type Azure Active Directory, not B2C) using the Azure Active Directory as shown in the screenshot, is the tenant in any way linked to my existing tenant or organization? Do they share any policy or setting, or is the new tenant completely independent from the one I originally logged into with the Azure portal?
Of course, the tenants you create in Azure Active Directory are completely independent. The official document has a clear explanation:
In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), each Azure AD organization is
fully independent: a peer that is logically independent from the other
Azure AD organizations that you manage. This independence between
organizations includes resource independence, administrative
independence, and synchronization independence. There is no
parent-child relationship between organizations.
I am failing to understand the difference and use of Azure Active Directory and Tenant. Subscriptions are services running under a tenant. But I can't understand the relationship between multi-tenant subscriptions or how directories are related to tenants Please help.
A tenant is a dedicated instance of an Azure AD directory that your organization receives when it signs up for a Microsoft cloud service such as Azure or Office 365. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-whatis
Each Azure tenant has a dedicated and trusted Azure AD directory. The Azure AD directory includes the tenant's users, groups, and apps and is used to perform identity and access management functions for tenant resources.
I started learning Microsoft Azure but I'm stuck
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between Microsoft account vs tenant vs Subscription in detail?
When you say "Microsoft account", this usually refers to personal Microsoft accounts (outlook.com/live.com/hotmail.com).
But it could also refer to organizational Azure Active Directory accounts.
They are both kinds of user accounts, both types can exist as members in an Azure Active Directory "tenant".
This tenant is basically an instance of Azure AD for your users, in your control.
When you log in to Azure, you are logging in to Azure AD.
An Azure subscription is where you deploy your services, create resources like databases etc.
A subscription is always linked to an Azure AD tenant.
The users in this linked tenant can be given roles in the subscription to access/modify resources.
If anyone wants access to the subscription, they need to be added to the Azure AD tenant first.
This can be done by creating them an account there, or by inviting them by their email as a "guest".
microsoft account: the one used to log in
tenant: your azure active directory (usually the default is [account].onmicrosoft.com
subscription: your microsoft azure subscription, the one used to create services/ deploy your applications
Getting error You are currently signed into the 'Azure AD B2C tenant' directory which does not have any subscriptions. when I try to create a resource in Azure AD B2C.
Please help I am new to Azure
Switch back to the directory where you have your subscription and create the resources there.
Don't take my answer as definitive, since I'm still a newbie, but at this point my understanding is this: B2C needs a new tenant because of the way it is designed (it isn't just an add-on for AD) and you link it to your subscription for billing purposes. But that's it. You don't need to create the resources for your app there, although I guess you could do it if you get a new subscription or transfer another one.
I already created a mobile app in my default tenant and successfully used the linked B2C tenant for authentication and I guess you've done that already. But since this was one of the few results that I got when I googled the message you quoted, I think it's worth sharing.
Have you done this ?
The Azure subscription has a trust relationship with Azure Active
Directory (Azure AD), which means that the subscription trusts Azure
AD to authenticate users, services, and devices. Multiple
subscriptions can trust the same Azure AD directory, but each
subscription can only trust a single directory.
Following link might help (check To associate an existing subscription to your Azure AD directory)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-how-subscriptions-associated-directory
Azure AD B2C needs a Microsoft Azure Subscription for billing purposes. You're going to need 3 things to make that message go away:
Azure AD Tenant
MS Azure Subscription
Associate your Azure AD B2C tenant to the MS Azure Subscription
It's a bit strange as Azure AD B2C tenants feel very similar to Azure AD (and run on a lot of the the same infrastructure behind the scenes) ... but from a billing standpoint, they are almost treated like MS Azure resources (e.g. VM, App Service, etc)