Azure-docs: Move Azure AD Enterprise Applications to another Azure AD

[vikaskumawat80]

We have a scenario where we have Enterprise Applications registered in Azure AD. Now we want to move these registered Applications to other Azure AD. Is it possible to do that or do we have start from scratch in the other Azure AD?

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• Content: Managing Applications with Azure Active Directory
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[MarileeTurscak-MSFT]

@vikaskumawat80
Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

[MarileeTurscak-MSFT]

Hi @vikaskumawat80
You can register an application in whichever AAD tenant you like, even if it is published in a resource group located in a separate AD. To move the registration to a new AD all you need to do is delete the app registration under the old tenant and create a new application in the new tenant. Is that what you are trying to do?

If you want to publish the application in a new resource group you can also just delete the app and re-publish it, but it seems like from what you are describing all you need to do is delete the app registration and create a new one.

[MarileeTurscak-MSFT]

We will proceed to close this thread. Please open a new issue or leave a comment if you would like to continue the discussion.

[svrooij]

@MarileeTurscak-MSFT I stumbled upon this issue as well. Let me elaborate some more.

We have 2 Azure AD tenants, 1 that is setup years ago (as a developer Tenant for Office 365) that has some of our multi tenant applications registered. We also have 1 tenant with our new office 365 subscription.

We want to get rid of the old Office 365 developer tenant, but we don't want force our customers to re-approve our new applications. So we want to move the current app registrations, and not recreate and re-approve the applications. Would that be something that is possible?

[ValentinVERGEZ]

Hi, @vikaskumawat80 @MarileeTurscak-MSFT,
We have the exact same scenario as @svrooij, could we reopen this issue? Or should we open a new one?

[doeweb]

Hi, @vikaskumawat80 @MarileeTurscak-MSFT,
We have the exact same scenario as @svrooij, could we reopen this issue? Or should we open a new one?

Did you get a direct response regarding this?

[svrooij]

I never got a response about moving applications to a new tenant. This is still something we want.

[GMartinez-Sisti]

Sorry for updating a closed issue, but this might be helpful:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/change-azure-account-profile#update-your-countryregion

[kharemohit786]

@GMartinez-Sisti We have been facing the same issue in our org we have many users connected the old app which is with the older tenant account, now we want to move the apps to new tenant without them reapproving it.
Was above link somehow helpful or were you able to solve this issue with any other way.

Thanks.

[GMartinez-Sisti]

@kharemohit786 I got in touch with support and they were able to move the subscription with all the resources, except the apps :( those are tied to the azure directory in the account so they aren't able to migrate.

[7cfourie]

@kharemohit786 I got in touch with support and they were able to move the subscription with all the resources, except the apps :( those are tied to the azure directory in the account so they aren't able to migrate.

Hi, so after the subscription move, did you need to recreate the Enterprise apps AND re-register the apps? or only re-register the apps? also what exactly did you do? Thanks

[GMartinez-Sisti]

@kharemohit786 I got in touch with support and they were able to move the subscription with all the resources, except the apps :( those are tied to the azure directory in the account so they aren't able to migrate.

Hi, so after the subscription move, did you need to recreate the Enterprise apps AND re-register the apps? or only re-register the apps? also what exactly did you do? Thanks

The apps were left on the original subscription. From what I read in the docs, they can't be moved without triggering a registration (being a new app), so we decided to leave them untouched to prevent disruption. Our best bet is that eventually Azure creates a migration path.

[7cfourie]

@kharemohit786 I got in touch with support and they were able to move the subscription with all the resources, except the apps :( those are tied to the azure directory in the account so they aren't able to migrate.

Hi, so after the subscription move, did you need to recreate the Enterprise apps AND re-register the apps? or only re-register the apps? also what exactly did you do? Thanks

The apps were left on the original subscription. From what I read in the docs, they can't be moved without triggering a registration (being a new app), so we decided to leave them untouched to prevent disruption. Our best bet is that eventually Azure creates a migration path.

So I am currently doing this migration as it is an HAS TO HAPPEN scenario, I am currently in talks with a Microsoft Support Engineer and still same answer as what the documents state.

We are planning to do this either end of this month or next month so will advise if anything has changed and what worked best for us.