Moving resources to an Azure Subscription in a different tenant

Question

Hello,

Our company has 2 Azure AD Tenants, we are looking to consolidate and move our Azure resources from tenant A into Tenant B. We have activate subscriptions that we could map from A to B. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this using Azure Resource Mover. It seems to be limited to moving to a subscription within the same tenant.

Any help?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Salim Adamon ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, thank you for posting your query here!

Approach 1: -

In order to achieve this requirement, please follow the below approaches this will fulfill your requirement

Subscription Transfer: If possible, transferring the entire subscription is the easiest approach (check with Microsoft Support) details below

Note Important: Move subscription tenant you have two options below

If you opted for Move subscription tenant to No, Only the billing will be transfer from Personal account to Business account, but all the resources will be in Personal account

If you opted for Move subscription tenant to yes, All the resources and billing will be moved from Personal account to Business account

Before transferring, please download all the invoices and Azure RBAC roles

Except the users, Permissions, App Registrations will not be moved, you need to export and import to the permissions from Personal account to Business account

I Suggest raise a case with Microsoft they will help you to transfer from the backend below is the Support link Refer: below link contact Azure support

Before you proceed, Note

Azure Reservations don't transfer automatically with the subscription. If you want to transfer a reservation, contact Azure support before transferring your subscription.

If you have opted to "Move subscription tenant" above, note that this will not transfer some resources, for example, all Azure role-based access control assignments are deleted (See affected users) and system/user designed managed identities are invalidated and not transferred to target directory. Only the recipient will have permissions to manage Azure resources in the subscription. If you have not opted in, then only the billing ownership is transferred to the recipient while preserving existing RBAC assignments and managed identities. Learn more

• Your email address and subscription usage history will be visible to the recipient after transferring complete

Approach 2: -

1. Take snapshot in the source vm and select target subscription which taking the snapshot
2. Crate a disk from snapshot
3. Use Az copy or storage explorer to transfer the disk from source to target Now If you want to migrate one or two VM's and Copy the Disk for the VM from Tenant A and paste it to Tenant B. You need to repeat this for each disk associated with your VM. Once the new disks are created you can create a new VM in Tenant B by attaching the disks that you already pasted in Tenant B.

Refer: https://www.remotelyrmm.com/blog/how-to-migrate-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-one-tenant-to-another

https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/blogs/move-disks-or-virtual-machines-between-tenants-on-azure/

(https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/storage-explorer/#overview)

If you have one or two VMs, you can follow the above method.

let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.  

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