Office365 subscription now wanting to use Azure services

Question

Our company has been using Office 365 for years. It seems this subscription has given us also an Entra subscription - i see all our users (including me) listed therein. We now want to start using Azure services, create and a VM.
What to do? Do we use somehow use this Office365 subscription? OR do we need to create a new Azure subscription? If we do latter does it automagically connect to our existing Entra subscription so that we have single sign on / single set of creds?

We can't possibly be the first company on planet earth to be doing this, yet I find no information on instructions. Can anyone advise?

Answer 1

Hi Rick,

You can sign in to the Azure portal using the owner/admin Entra ID account for your Office 365. Next, scroll down and click on Subscriptions, then click Add button.

Below screenshot shows Azure portal Home page when the current default tenant doesn't have an associated Azure subscription. If you don't see Subscriptions under Azure services scroll down and there will be Subscriptions icon under Navigate:

After clicking on Subscriptions on the portal Home screen, it takes you to below, where you click Add:

On the Create a subscription screen, the Plan box will likely be empty, so click on Add a different type of subscription, select Free Trial or Pay-As-You-Go and follow the prompts, entering information as requested. In screenshot below, I blanked out Billing account/profile/section for privacy reasons:

Depending on your specific situation you may want to choose one of the offers under "All other offers", but for company that wants to use Azure for production and doesn't have Enterprise/Customer agreement Pay-As-You-Go is most common.

Once you get your Azure subscription set up it will use same Entra ID tenant as your Office 365, so if you want to grant certain users access to Azure you can.

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Thanks.

-TP