Let me set the stage first:
I am an Action Pack subscriber - without really understanding what I was doing, I activated my Office 365 benefit (5 E3 seats) and manually created user accounts, etc. The directory in use for Office 365 is not synced or associated with any other on-premises
directory, and it has two domains added to it, both of which I own. Let's say "example.com" and "example.net". Then I went out and created an Azure subscription, again using my Action Pack benefits to get the $100/mo credit. When I created
this account, I created it using a Microsoft account. Things are running happily - my mail is flowing through Office 365 and my Azure subscription is running a couple VMs, etc. They are in no way associated. It should be noted that there is an Organizational
Account in the Office 365 directory with the same account name (let's say,
azure@example.com) as the Microsoft Account used to create the Azure subscription. Perhaps this is where I've screwed up.
What I want to do is associate the Office 365 directory with the Azure subscription. I've seen several places that all list the same way to handle this association. Here's an excellent link:
http://blogs.c5insight.com/Home/entryid/524/how-to-add-existing-office365-users-to-an-azure-subscription but in general:
- Log in to Azure portal using the Microsoft account used to create the subscription (azure@example.com)
- Click New --> App Services --> Active Directory --> Directory --> Custom Create
- Select "Use Existing Directory" and then click "I am ready to be signed out now."
- Sign back in to the Azure portal using the global administrator account of my Office 365 directory (let's say, gadmin@example.com)
- Click continue when prompted to (in this case) "Use the "Example" directory with Microsoft Azure"
- Sign back out of the Azure portal, and sign back in with the original account used to create the Azure subscription (azure@example.com)
At this point, I'd expect to see two directories associated with the Azure subscription - the default directory created with the subscription, and the directory associated with my Office 365 account. But that's not what happens. The directory is never created,
never associated, and I receive no error messages or failure notifications. When I log in to Azure as the account used to create my subscription (azure@example.com), I am prompted to log in as either my Microsoft account
or my organizational account - if I select Microsoft account, I see all my azure objects, no problem, and if I select organizational account, I see what's basically an empty Azure subscription. If I log in as my Office 365 global admin account (gadmin@example.com),
then I see that same empty Azure subscription. I've tinkered with permissions, created co-admins, etc, but nothing seems to resolve the issue.
What seemed to happen was that a brand new (and empty) Azure subscription was created, with my Office 365 global administrator account (gadmin@example.com) as the administrator, and whichisassociated with the Office 365 directory.
So, what I want is to have my Office 365 directory associated with my Azure subscription, so that I can log in to my Azure subscription with my organizational accounts. Is this not possible with the way that I originally set things up? I can't figure out
any way to submit any kind of support ticket (short of paying by the incident, which I don't feel I should have to do when this appears to be a functionality issue with the product...).
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
Andrew Topp