Difference between Azure Owner role and Co-Administrator

Question

Our subscription has 5 resource groups. Based on Microsoft documentation, the older "co-administrator" role is equivalent to the newer RBAC role of "Owner" when set at the subscription level.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/rbac-and-directory-admin-roles

The Service Administrator and the Co-Administrators have the equivalent access of users who have been assigned the Owner role (an Azure RBAC role) at the subscription scope.

I'm not seeing this behavior. When my account role is set to owner at the subscription level, I cannot see any resource groups. When I set that same account to co-administrator, I can see all 5 resource groups.

How can I use the newer RBAC roles to allow owners to see all resource groups within a subscription?

Answer 1

You can use Azure AD PowerShell to create a user them grant the "Owner" role to the user. For more details, please refer to the document .

#create user
Connect-AzureAD
$PasswordProfile = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Open.AzureAD.Model.PasswordProfile
$PasswordProfile.Password = "Wdsr199545!"
New-AzureADUser -DisplayName "test User" -PasswordProfile $PasswordProfile -UserPrincipalName "test@hanxia.onmicrosoft.com" -AccountEnabled $true -MailNickName "testuser"

#grant access 
Login-AzureRmAccount
$sub = Get-AzureRmSubscription
$scope = "/subscriptions/" + $sub.Id
New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -SignInName test@hanxia.onmicrosoft.com -Scope $scope -RoleDefinitionName Owner