Change Azure Website Subscription

Question

I had a free trial with windows azure, I was out of the country and it ran out.

I have now upgraded to a pay-as-you-go account. All good.

However, my previous websites still run off my old subscription, is there any way to reactivate these websites using my new pay-as-you-go subscription?

Answer 1

If you upgraded the existing free account versus opened a new pay-as-you-go account, this should have been a seamless transition.

You can contact support - use the Billing Questions option and then select Transfer Subscription, and they should be able to help you.

Alternatively, of course, you could redeploy your assets to the new subscription.

Answer 2

I created a "Billing" ticket with microsoft. There is a type of ticket as you go through their wizard specifically for this. They were able to upgrade my "Free Trial" to the pay as you go AFTER i had let the free trial expire. The downside was that all my virtual machines were deleted. It did however give me access to my websites and storage without any problem. I was able to recreate all the VM's using the storage vhd's.

Answer 3

My experience on this is that I just redeploy to a new website I created under new subscription. I didn't find a way to move them over to new subscription.

You can move SQL Azure to new subscription, but not website. To move SQL Azure to new subscription, you will need to use old Azure portal management. Follow this step: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/07/moving-sql-azure-servers-between-subscriptions.aspx Note that you are moving the server where the database lives. So, if you have more than one DB in the same server, everything will be moved.

Answer 4

You can move Azure SQL DB from one subscription to another on https://manage.windowsazure.com

Both subscriptions should in the same Default Directory. If they are in different directories then select:

• Subscriptions
• Manage subscriptions/directory
• Select subscription and click "Edit" at the bottom.
• Choose directory where other subscription and click "Next".

When both subscriptions in the same directory.

• Choose "SQL Databases"
• Select proper server
• and in Quick Glance you should see "Change subscription"