Microsoft Entra ID
Fundamentals

Create New Tenant

In brief

The documentation refreshes troubleshooting guidance for creating Governed Workforce tenants, including paid Azure subscription and billing-account requirements.

What Entra admins need to know

Administrators troubleshooting tenant creation should verify the associated subscription uses Enterprise Agreement or pay-as-you-go billing.

This editorial summary was generated by AI from the documentation changes. Verify important details in the full Microsoft Learn article.

Documentation change

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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 a paid Azure subscription associated with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or pay-as-you-go billing account. Legacy and modern billing experiences 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.
  1. Select Next: Review + Create. Review the information you entered and if the information is correct, select Create in the lower left corner.
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