How to delete tenant "Default Directory"

Question

I am trying to delete (or exit) my only Organization.

after pressing "Delete":

The problem is, I don't have any Licenses or Subscriptions. Also, I am the only one in the Organization.

What do I do? Help

Answer 1

Hello Martin Almeida,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A Community.

From my understanding, you are not able to delete your subscription due to some errors being flagged.

To be able to resolve this, elevate your access to be able to manage all the resources and subscriptions. Kindly click on properties blade in your Entra ID and under the Access management for Azure resources, set the toggle to Yes. Click on the link to get more information about how to elevate access

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/elevate-access-global-admin?tabs=azure-portal#perform-steps-at-root-scope

Once you have been able to do this, this should resolve the issues.

If you still have the License-based issue after doing this, kindly access the Microsoft admin by visiting admin.microsoft.com and sign in with your Global Admin account. Please note that you might need to create a work account in the tenant and assign a Global Admin role to this account. The reason for this is that the External account cannot access the Admin Portal.

Once you have been able to access, go to License blade under billing to see if there is any License. If you find any, you need to cancel this license to be able to proceed.

Follow this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/users/directory-delete-howto to get more information on how to delete an Entra ID tenant

Let me know if further assistance is needed.

Babafemi

Answer 2

@Martin Almeida

Thank you for posting this in Microsoft Q&A.

If you want to remove the tenant from your managed list then you can follow below steps,

You can follow below steps to leave the organization that you want.

You're using a personal account, you'll need to use a My Account URL that includes your tenant's name or tenant ID. For example: if you tenant name is contoso.onmicrosoft.com then you will have to go to URL https://myaccount.microsoft.com?tenantId=contoso.onmicrosoft.com. You might need to open this URL in a private browser session.

Click Organizations from the left navigation pane or select the Manage organizations link from the Organizations block.

Home organization: Your home organization is listed first. This organization owns your work or school account. Because your account is managed by your administrator, you're not allowed to leave your home organization. You'll see there's no link to Leave. If you don't have an assigned home organization, you'll just see a single heading that says Organizations with the list of your associated organizations.

Other organizations you collaborate with: You'll also see the other organizations that you've signed in to previously using your work or school account. You can decide to leave any of these organizations at any time.

You can click on leave button in front of the organization which ever you want to leave.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

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