Category: tenant
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Tenant Switching From Bookmarks
When you are an Entra ID admin of more than one tenant you can use the “Switch Directory” link under your profile picture. But if you are doing this often, you might find that an entry in your browser favourites (or bookmarks) is better. To do this, craft a URL in the following format: https://entra.microsoft.com/auth/login/@tenantdomain.onmicrosoft.com…
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Decommissioning Old Tenants
I had a domain associated with an unused Microsoft 365 tenant. I had not used this domain in years, but needed it for a demo environment. The old tenant it was associated with had (presumably) been “fixed” by Microsoft as it has not been used in so long. So when I tried to delete Distribution…
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Broken Multi-Tenant Organization Sync Settings – How To Fix
I saw this issue in July 2025 for the first time and worked around it but did not document it here. By November I had the pleasure of staffing the Microsoft Entra stand at the massive Microsoft Ignite conference in San Francisco answering any and all questions pass my way (that is good fun, and…
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Removing Cloud Service Providers (CSP) In Entra/M365
The time comes to change or remove a CSP. So you go about your directory removing configuration that allows the CSP to have remote admin access to your tenant. You might do this anyway, even if the CSP is still a current partner, because there is the inherent risk that the CSP is a backdoor…
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B2B Collaboration and Easy Multifactor Authentication in Microsoft 365/Entra ID
A couple of conversations this week, including this prompt by Daniel Glenn – https://x.com/DanielGlenn/status/1812952597759992149 have led me to write up this quick guide to making your cross-tenant, resource account, guest, B2B Collaboration users (note, these are all the same thing) multi-factor authentication easy. If you don’t do this, then the user needs to set up…
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Restricting OneDrive To Multiple Tenants
You can use GPO or Intune/MDM settings to restrict a number of settings with OneDrive. One of the documented settings is called “Allow syncing OneDrive accounts for only specific organizations”. Notice how it is a title in the plural – more than one organization. But if you look at all the documentation and examples others…