Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Governance

Create Tenant

In brief

The prerequisite now refers to Enterprise Agreement or Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions and identifies MOSA and MCA subscriptions, replacing billing-account wording.

What Entra admins need to know

Use the updated terminology when checking tenant-creation prerequisites; no configuration change is stated.

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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Before you create a governed workforce tenant, confirm that you meet these requirements:

  • Your organization is a paid customer. Customers using a free tenant or trial subscription can't create additional tenants from the Microsoft Entra admin center. If you need a new tenant, sign up for a free Azure account.
  • Your selected Azure subscription is associated withYou have either an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Pay-As-You-Go subscription. Both Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA) and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing account. Legacy and modern billing experiencesaccounts are supported. To identify your billing account type, see View your billing accounts in the Azure portal.
  • Your Microsoft Entra tenant allows member users to create add-on tenants. If Restrict non-admin users from creating tenants is set to Yes, your account needs the Tenant Creator role.
  • You have the required Azure Resource Manager (ARM) permissions for the selected subscription through the Tenant Contributor or Subscription Owner/Creator role.
  • The governing tenant has a configured default governance policy template. The tenant creation service uses only the default template (ID: default). If the default template isn't defined, the secure add-on tenant creation flow doesn't establish a governance relationship, even if other templates exist.
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