Grant user access to Azure MSDN subscription
For old MSA-originated MSDN / Visual Studio subscriptions, we might not be able to grant user access to the subscription. The subscription is linked to your personal account, and there is a portal-side RBAC picker defect caused this issue.
To grant access to the subscription to other users created in your directory, using following Azure CLI (Cloud Shell) and grant the user contributor role.
az role assignment create \ --assignee-object-id <USER_OBJECT_ID> \ --assignee-principal-type User \ --role Contributor \ --scope /subscriptions/<SUBSCRIPTION_ID> Subsitute <USER_OBJECT_ID> with the Object ID for the user in Microsoft Entra ID, and <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> for the subscription in question.
Posted by John Liu Friday, January 23, 2026