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Published: August 2025
This article is part of a series on: Configuring Azure static web apps.
  1. Create a new Static Web App
  2. Use a custom domain
  3. Authorisation configuration
  4. Blocking an authentication provider
  5. Become co-owner of a subscription
  6. API configuration

Become co-owner of a subscription

I already had an Azure subscription as a professional before I started using it for personal projects. For some personal/hobby projects it is best to have a separate subscription. But it is quite inconvenient to login/logout all the time just to access the Azure portal to access a different subscription. Especially as I'm currently the only person who is managing the personal/hobby subscriptions. There is no need for that: you can manage all subscriptions using the same account.I discovered this by chance when I used my regular email address for both the professional and personal subscription.

If you have a subscription using one (in my case personal Microsoft) account and want to manage that using another (personal Microsoft) account, three steps are required:

  1. Create the user in the subscription:

    • Open the Azure portal and log in using the one account that owns the subscription.
    • Go to the Entra ID overview
    • Click Add | User | Invite external user
    • Enter the Email , select (in the properties) Member (not sure if that is needed) and send the invite.

  2. Accept the invitation.

    • Open another browser or an incognito tab, or log out of the one account.
    • Click the invitation link and log in with the other account.
    • Click all accept/OK buttons required to accept the invitation.

  3. Make the user co-owner.

    • Open the Azure portal and log in using the one account that owns the subscription.
    • Go to the Subscriptions overview and select the subscription.
    • Go to the Access control (IAM) overview
    • Click Add | Role assignment
    • On the first page, Role, select Privileged administrator roles and then Owner
    • On the next page, Member, select Select members and select the invited other account.
    • On the next page, Conditions, select the highest privilege (Allow user to assign all roles). This is probably not necessary to for the management of static web apps, but just in case…
    • Assign the role.

If you now open the Azure portal and log in using the other account, you can click on your account logo and switch directories.