Azure Classic Subscription Administrator: guest user (… and why you should care)

Published Monday, March 6, 2023

This blog contains important reminder about removing the guest user’s classic co-administrator access to subscriptions and upcoming classic cloud service deprecation on August 31^st, 2024.

Who will be affected?

This blog post serves as an important reminder to Azure Active Directory administrators who manage guest users’ classic co-administrator access to subscriptions. To remove a guest user’s classic co-administrator access to a subscription, Azure Active Directory administrator must follow the instructions provided in the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/classic-administrators#remove-a-co-administrator.

How will customers be affected?

Azure Active Directory administrators who manage guest users’ classic co-administrator access to subscriptions should know that removing a guest user from the Azure Active Directory does not remove the guest user’s classic co-administrator access to subscriptions. Azure Active Directory administrator must follow the steps in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/classic-administrators#remove-a-co-administrator to remove a guest user’s classic co-administrator access to subscriptions.

Action required

To remove a guest user’s classic co-administrator access to a subscription, Azure Active Directory administrator must follow the instructions provided in the official documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/classic-administrators#remove-a-co-administrator