Tag: Subscriptions

Can’t swap Azure subscriptions

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So I have a situation where an Azure subscription expired and was then disabled (through no fault of my own I might add).

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The status shows as disabled. Problem is now a new valid subscription has been added but I can’t move the resource groups from the old (and disabled) subscription to the new one because:

Error type

The subscription '8a6d2938-80eb-43bf-XXXX-142XXXX1ab90' is disabled and therefore marked as read only. You cannot perform any write actions on this subscription until it is re-enabled. (Code: ReadOnlyDisabledSubscription)
 (Code: ReadOnlyDisabledSubscription)

In a nutshell the disabled subscription is now read only and I can’t shift resources if it is read write. That means I’d have to somehow re-enable it (typically converting it to PAYG), just to move to a new subscription.

So, the moral of this story seems to be, don’t let an Azure subscription expire and become disabled because migrating stuff out of it may not be possible!