Microsoft Entra ID

Create New Tenant

22 August 2026Doc update+2 / −2 lines

In brief

The Governed Workforce tenant creation guidance now links the Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement and related billing agreement references.

What Entra admins need to know

Administrators troubleshooting tenant creation can follow the links to review the referenced billing agreement details.

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If you're unable to create a Microsoft Entra ID or Azure AD B2C tenant, review your user settings page to ensure that tenant creation isn't switched off. If it isn't enabled you must be assigned at least the Tenant Creator role.

This article doesn't cover creating an external tenant configuration for consumer-facing apps; learn more about using Microsoft Entra External ID for your customer identity and access management (CIAM) scenarios.

If you're unable to create a Governed Workforce tenant, verify that you have either an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Pay-As-You-Go subscription. Both ~~Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA)~~Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA) and ~~Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)~~Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing accounts are supported. You also need the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role. To identify your billing account type, see View your billing accounts in the Azure portal.

To create a new tenant

Select your desired cloud subscription and resource group for storing the Microsoft Entra ID Free billing asset for your new tenant.

Select Next: Review + Create. Review the information you entered and if the information is correct, select Create in the lower left corner.

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ After you sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com), you can creat > > - If you're unable to create a Microsoft Entra ID or Azure AD B2C tenant, review your user settings page to ensure that tenant creation isn't switched off. If it isn't enabled you must be assigned at least the [Tenant Creator](../identity/role-based-access-control/permissions-reference.md#tenant-creator) role. > - This article doesn't cover creating an *external* tenant configuration for consumer-facing apps; learn more about using [Microsoft Entra External ID](~/external-id/customers/overview-customers-ciam.md) for your customer identity and access management (CIAM) scenarios.-> - If you're unable to create a Governed Workforce tenant, verify that you have either an [Enterprise Agreement (EA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-ea-roles) or [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/offers/ms-azr-0003p?cid=msft_learn) subscription. Both Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA) and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing accounts are supported. You also need the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role. To identify your billing account type, see [View your billing accounts in the Azure portal](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts).+> - If you're unable to create a Governed Workforce tenant, verify that you have either an [Enterprise Agreement (EA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-ea-roles) or [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/offers/ms-azr-0003p?cid=msft_learn) subscription. Both [Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts#microsoft-online-services-program) and [Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts#microsoft-customer-agreement) billing accounts are supported. You also need the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role. To identify your billing account type, see [View your billing accounts in the Azure portal](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts).  ### To create a new tenant @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ In order to automatically establish governance relationships with add-on tenants    - Select your desired cloud subscription and resource group for storing the Microsoft Entra ID Free billing asset for your new tenant.     > [!NOTE]-   > Use either an [Enterprise Agreement (EA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-ea-roles) or [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/offers/ms-azr-0003p?cid=msft_learn) subscription. Both Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA) and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing accounts are supported. You also need the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role. To identify your billing account type, see [View your billing accounts in the Azure portal](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts).+   > Use either an [Enterprise Agreement (EA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-ea-roles) or [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/offers/ms-azr-0003p?cid=msft_learn) subscription. Both [Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts#microsoft-online-services-program) and [Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts#microsoft-customer-agreement) billing accounts are supported. You also need the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role. To identify your billing account type, see [View your billing accounts in the Azure portal](/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/view-all-accounts).  1. Select **Next: Review + Create**. Review the information you entered and if the information is correct, select **Create** in the lower left corner.