I want to delete an AD B2C Tenant and all associated resources with it (applications, b2c policies, users etc). Is it possible to delete the tenant and associated resources with powershell?
No, this is not possible. You can delete your resources using Powershell but the tenant/directory itself needs to be deleted through the Azure Portal.
View these instructions for detailed information:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-delete-howto
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureadb2c/2017/06/23/delete-b2c-tenant/
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I have a structural question on the Azure portal. When I create a new Azure Active Directory B2C Tenant, it forces the creation of a new directory, with new org name, paired to the subscription ID from the directory where I created the tenant. This feels incredibly disjointed to me since my Active Directory is in my parent directory. So my questions are
Is this the standard model for using Azure Active Directory B2C?
Main Directory w/ subscription
-> B2C Tenant 1 (dev)
-> B2C Tenant 2 (staging)
-> B2C Tenant 3 (prod)
If so, does that mean that I should create all resources for the environment in the B2C Tenant directory?
Can I make multiple Azure Active Directory B2C tenants in my main account, and just separate them into different resource groups for dev, staging, and prod?
Reading the documentation, everything seems to show either creating a new Tenant which creates a new directory, or "Linking" and existing Tenant. The issue with that is when you create a tenant, you MUST specify a subscription, and to "Link" a Tenant, it can not have a subscription.. and since you can't remove a subscription from a Tenant, how is this option even possible?
Any help or guidance on these points would be greatly appreciated. I've spent days reading documentation and trying to get this set up along the lines of option 2 since that's the model that exists in a client account I need to replicate, but nothing has worked.
EDIT
I see that I can click on the B2C Tenant from my main Azure Active Directory account and see it's subscription status as
An Azure subscription is required to continue receiving SLA support for External Identities```
but when I click that it takes me to the Azure AD B2C directory and I'm confronted with this image
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but when I look at the resource in the main Azure AD directory, I see I can move subscriptions but there is **already a subscription assigned** so what does it want me to do?
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It seems like the answer is "An Azure AD B2C directory is ONLY meant to manage the B2C tenant, and nothing else" but the only person to reply to this so far is saying that you should create all your resources in the B2C tenant directory, not the Azure Active Directory Account which has the resource group referencing the created B2C tenant.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3dMY.png
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/72sH7.png
• When you create an Azure B2C tenant in your existing subscription, a new Azure AD directory with the name of the given Azure AD B2C tenant is created and related to it, a separate Azure AD B2C tenant/directory is also created. That is, by the name of the Azure AD B2C tenant, a normal Azure AD B2C directory is available as well as an Azure AD B2C directory/tenant is also available.
• Thus, when you create an Azure AD B2C tenant, it will be shown under you resource group in which it is assigned. Also, if you want to create a new resource in this new Azure AD B2C tenant, then you will need to link it with an existing subscription or add a new subscription to it as it functions as full-fledged separate tenant with an existing Azure AD default directory to take care of the Identity and Access Management requirements.
If so, does that mean that I should create all resources for the environment in the B2C Tenant directory?
Yes, you can separate your ‘dev, staging and prod’ B2C tenants for your convenience and create resources in it for your management purposes but you will have to link every B2C tenant with an active subscription plan so that the billing costs of the resources deployed in it are taken care of.
Can I make multiple Azure Active Directory B2C tenants in my main account, and just separate them into different resource groups for dev, staging, and prod?
Yes, you can as per the above given explanation.
Thus, for creating a new B2C tenant, you need to have an existing subscription of Azure and an existing Azure AD tenant through which you can surely create an Azure AD B2C tenant and further if you want to deploy Azure resources in it, then you can add a subscription or link an existing one.
Please find the below snapshots for your reference: -
I want to deploy an application on Azure. I want users to be able to authenticate in my app without a Microsoft account. This guided me to use the AAD-B2C service. I followed the tutorial shown here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/tutorial-create-tenant expecting that this will create a new AAD-B2C Directory in my existing Directory and tenant. I had in my mind something like the following tree:
Subscription: Pay-As-You-Go
Directory: Default
Resource Group: Default-EU
Tenants: Default, Application
User Pools: Default(Internal Users), Application(External Users)
I'm not sure I understand how this works and I'm very confused. Is it possible to use external sign-ins from users that don't have a Microsoft account without creating 2 tenants and 2 directories under my subscription?
When you create a B2C tenant, there are two completely different entities that get created - B2C Tenant Resource and B2C Tenant/Directory itself.
The B2C Tenant Resource gets created in the subscription linked to your standard Azure AD tenant (Default Directory e.g., contosocorp.onmicrosoft.com) you used to create the B2C tenant from. This resource is primarily used to change your Azure AD B2C tenant's pricing tier.
A separate tenant for your B2C directory gets created (e.g. contosob2c.onmicrosoft.com). This is an independent tenant/directory than your Default Directory and is not stored in the default tenant.
The way subscription is linked to standard Azure AD tenant is different than the B2C tenant. A subscription in B2C is required for Support, Billing, Custom Policies, and using the Identity Experience Framework. You cannot create resources for Static Web App or Function App, or Cosmos DB in the B2C tenant and you will have to use your Default Directory for this purpose.
Azure AD B2C is different from Azure AD. So, when you create Azure AD B2C, it creates another tenant
You need to create Azure AD B2C Tenant in the same subscription in which your application is deployed
Create an App Registration in your Azure AD B2C Tenant
Go to your web application and select Authentication. You can add your app registration details in the identity provider
Reference: Azure App Service Authentication (Ez Auth) with Azure AD B2C - DEV Community
I know that we can migrate a subscription from one Azure AD to another AD, and move a resource from one subscription to another subscription. Wondering can we clone the Azure active directory (tenant) as well? like moving all/part of the AD roles, groups, settings, subscriptions and resources from one tenant to another?
Thanks,
There is no way to Migrate azure AD settings to other tenant.
you may submit your feedback here https://feedback.azure.com/forums/34192--general-feedback
I’d like to use scopes in our Azure B2C instance, however all our resources are residing in a different active directory. Can I somehow also select the API instance from another Resource? Or is it possible to upgrade our main AD to an Azure B2C one? Or can we somehow move our subscription and all resources to our Azure B2C AD?
At this point in time, Azure AD B2C does not support multi-tenancy. You can vote and keep track of the feature in the Azure AD B2C UserVoice forum:
How to use Multitenant Applications Based on B2C
Without multitenancy, you will not be able to access resources from other tenants. It is also not possible to upgrade your main AD to an Azure AD B2C tenant, or have subscriptions within your Azure AD B2C Tenant.
Not entirely sure what your scenario is, but the recommended way to do this is by adding Azure AD as an identity provider. This currently can be done using custom policies, but I would encourage waiting until the feature is available through built-in policies.
I am trying out ad-b2c and boy even the first step is turning out to be extremely frustrating. Anyway here's my problem:
I have an existing subscription with a default directory which has its own mydefaultdirectory.onmicrosoft.com domain
According to instructions here: I should be able to create an ad-b2c tenant, and then go into the portal B2C features blade.
I created the tenant, which included me creating a custom ad-b2c directory. I had to choose another domain such as myadb2ctest.onmicrosoft.com.
I go to the portal under b2c blade, but now I have no subscription. This is because now I am logged in to the myadb2ctest directory rather than mydefaultdirectory which has my subscription.
I DO NOT want to create a new subscription. I just want this directory associated with my already existing subscription so I can try this thing out.
An Azure AD (and B2C) is a higher level object than a subscription in the portal user interface. That's why you lose your subscription view when selecting B2C.
Internally this will be linked to your subscription, otherwise Microsoft couldn't send you a bill. if you go to the B2C dashboard, there is text containing the linked subscription:
Subscription status
If there is no subscription linked, there is a warning in the B2C Dashboard:
No Subscription linked to this B2C tenant or the Subscription needs your attention.
And then you will need to take these actions:
This B2C tenant must be linked to an active Azure subscription for communication, support and billing.
If your Subscription status is No Subscription, please link this B2C tenant to an Azure subscription,
Switch Directories to the location of your target Azure subscription
Under Marketplace, search for and select 'B2C'
Select Create to link this B2C Tenant to a subscription
Unfortunately today B2C features cannot be turned on in an existing tenant.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/active-directory-b2c-faqs
Please make your B2C directory a default directory for an Azure Subscription. You could think of a B2C directory as a normal AAD during this process.
This process of switching the default directory can only be done through Azure Classic Portal using Service Admin (live account ONLY) for the subscription.
You could refer this article for further steps:
https://ballance.in/default-directory-of-an-azure-subscription/