How to modify Azure Arc (or any) Service Principal scope after creation

A thought struck me one day when I was working with onboarding machines to Azure Arc. If you want to onboard multiple servers at scale to Azure Arc, you would need a Service Principal with Azure Connected Machine Onboarding role in the respective subscription or resource group where you want to create Azure Arc-enabled servers. An interesting thing here is: what if you would like to re-use the same service principal in order to onboard more Azure Arc resources but to another subscription and/or another resource group? ...

January 4, 2023 · 3 min · Kristina Devochko