Azure AD service limits and restrictions

Important

Please bear with us as we migrate this and other content to the Microsoft Azure site. The content in this topic is not being updated and might be out of date. For the full set of Microsoft Azure service limits (including Azure Active Directory), see Azure Subscription and Service Limits, Quotas, and Constraints

The following table described these restrictions in more detail:

Category Description of limits

Directories

A single user can only be associated with a maximum of 20 Azure Active Directory directories. This limit can be reached in any of the following examples:

  • A single user creates 20 directories.

  • A single user is added to 20 directories as a member

  • A single user creates 10 directories and later is added by others to 10 different directories

Objects

Schema extensions

Currently “User”, “Group”, “TenantDetail”, “Device”, “Application” and “ServicePrincipal” entities can be extended with “String” type or “Binary” type single-valued attributes. These include the following limitations:

  • String type extensions can have maximum of 256 characters

  • Binary type extensions are limited to 256 bytes

  • 100 extension values (across ALL types and ALL applications) can be written to any single object

  • Schema extensions are available only in Graph API-version 1.21-preview. The application must be granted write access to register an extension.

Applications

  • A maximum of 10 users can be owners of a single application

Groups

  • A maximum of 10 users can be owners of a single group

  • Any number of objects can be members of a single group in Azure Active Directory.

Note

There is a limit for the number of objects you can synchronize from your On Premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.

  • If you’re using DirSync the limit is 15K users.

  • If you’re using Azure AD Connect, the limit is 50K users.

Access Panel

  • There is no limit to the number of applications that can be seen in the Access Panel per end user for subscribers to Azure AD Premium or the Enterprise Mobility Suite

  • A maximum of 10 app tiles (examples: Box, Salesforce, or Dropbox) can be seen in the Access Panel for each end user with the Free or Basic editions of Azure Active Directory. 1 This limit does not apply to Administrator accounts.

Reports

  • A maximum of 1,000 rows can be viewed or downloaded in any report. Any additional data is truncated

1 Apps that your organization developed and that were integrated afterward with Azure Active Directory can be seen in the end user Access Panel even if the limit for preintegrated SaaS apps is reached.