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How To Get An Azure Active Directory Tenant

To obtain an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant, there are four main options: 1) use an existing Office 365 subscription, 2) use an existing Azure subscription associated with a Microsoft Account, 3) use an existing Azure subscription associated with an organizational account, or 4) start from scratch by creating a new Azure AD tenant directly. A tenant represents an organization and houses its users, applications, and security information.

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How To Get An Azure Active Directory Tenant

To obtain an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant, there are four main options: 1) use an existing Office 365 subscription, 2) use an existing Azure subscription associated with a Microsoft Account, 3) use an existing Azure subscription associated with an organizational account, or 4) start from scratch by creating a new Azure AD tenant directly. A tenant represents an organization and houses its users, applications, and security information.

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How to get an Azure Active Directory

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In this article

1. Use an existing Office 365 subscription


2. Use an MSA Azure subscription
3. Use an organizational Azure subscription
4. Start from scratch

In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), a tenant is representative of an organization. It is


a dedicated instance of the Azure AD service that an organization receives and owns
when it signs up for a Microsoft cloud service such as Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Office
365. Each Azure AD tenant is distinct and separate from other Azure AD tenants.

A tenant houses the users in a company and the information about them - their passwords,
user profile data, permissions, and so on. It also contains groups, applications, and other
information pertaining to an organization and its security.

To allow Azure AD users to sign in to your application, you must register your
application in a tenant of your own. Publishing an application in an Azure AD tenant is
absolutely free. In fact, most developers create several tenants and applications for
experimentation, development, staging, and testing purposes. Organizations that sign up
for and consume your application can optionally choose to purchase licenses if they wish
to take advantage of advanced directory features.

So, how do you go about getting an Azure AD tenant? The process might be a little
different if you:

 Have an existing Office 365 subscription


 Have an existing Azure subscription associated with a Microsoft Account
 Have an existing Azure subscription associated with an organizational account
 Have none of the above & want to start from scratch

Use an existing Office 365 subscription


If you have an existing Office 365 subscription, you already have an Azure AD tenant!
You can sign in to the Azure portal with your O365 account and start using Azure AD.

Use an MSA Azure subscription


If you have previously signed up for an Azure subscription with your individual
Microsoft Account, you already have a tenant! When you log in to the Azure portal, you
are automatically logged in to your default tenant. You are free to use this tenant as you
see fit - but you may want to create an Organizational administrator account.

To do so, follow these steps. Alternatively, you may wish to create a new tenant and
create an administrator in that tenant following a similar process.

1. Log into the Azure portal with your individual account


2. Navigate to the “Azure Active Directory” section of the portal (found in the left
nav bar, under More Services)
3. You should automatically be signed in to the "Default Directory", if not you can
switch directories by clicking on your account name in the top right corner.
4. From the Quick Tasks section, choose Add a user.
5. In the Add User Form, provide the following details:

o Name: (choose an appropriate value)


o User name: (choose a user name for this administrator)
o Profile: (fill in the appropriate values for First name, Last name, Job title,
and Department)
o Role: Global Administrator
6. When you have completed the Add User Form, and receive the temporary
password for the new administrative user, be sure to record this password as you
need to login with this new user in order to change the password. You can also
send the password directly to the user, using an alternative e-mail.
7. Click on Create to create the new user.
8. To change the temporary password, log into https://login.microsoftonline.com
with this new user account and change the password when requested.

Use an organizational Azure subscription


If you have previously signed up for an Azure subscription with your organizational
account, you already have a tenant! In the Azure portal, you should find a tenant when
you navigate to "More Services" and "Azure Active Directory." You are free to use this
tenant as you see fit.

Start from scratch


If all of the above is gibberish to you, don't worry. Simply visit Azure portal to create a
new Azure AD directory. Once you complete the process, you get your own Azure AD
tenant with the domain name you chose during sign-up. In the Azure portal, you can find
your tenant by navigating to Azure Active Directory in the left-hand nav.

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