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My (unused) tenant is about to be deleted. Will this also remove my outlook/microsoft account?

Stefan De Machtige 20 Reputation points
2025-06-07T10:35:46.31+00:00

Greetings All,

I received an e-mail stating:

"Complete a purchase by July 8, 2025 to keep your account active

You are receiving this email because your associated Microsoft Entra ID tenant (tenant ID ********) has been inactive for more than 200 days.

Required action: To continue using your tenant, make a purchase before July 8, 2025. If you don’t make a purchase before this date, your next purchase with Microsoft will require a new Microsoft Entra ID tenant to continue using Microsoft services."

I just found out i created an azure account in 2020 and never used it. It can be deleted for my part... but my concern here is for my microsoft/outlook email.

If this tenant ID is deleted, my standard outlook.com/microsoft account will not be deleted and remain active as it is now?

I would think this would not be the case, but would like to sure. Just in case.

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  1. Nathan Roberts (SN) 5,381 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-06-07T13:55:42.8966667+00:00

    Hey there, Stefan De Machtige

    This will depend on whether you are using a domain email address with Outlook. If you have a personal domain email address that is tied to the tenant, and have a Microsoft 365 business plan, then deleting the tenant could delete the email address.

    However, if you have a personal Microsoft account that you have used to create your tenant on Azure. Deleting this tenant won't affect your Outlook account as the account is different. When you sign into Azure using a personal account, it takes the email address and makes it into a business email. For example, it may be that your email address is @hotmail.co.uk which will be given a examplebobjones_hotmail.co.uk#@yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com which is how your account is able to access Azure.

    You can find out more about tenants being removed/deleted here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/inaccessible-tenant

    You can find this question someone asked about their personal account being removed/deleted when they delete their tenant here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2258321/how-do-i-remove-a-tenant-and-permanently-delete-my

    Hope this helps,
    Nathan

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