I often switch between different Microsoft 365 tenant accounts throughout the day and I'm curious about how others handle session management in their browsers and PowerShell. I currently use Edge and have created a separate profile for each of my tenants. However, I'm not quite sure how session management works in PowerShell or how to easily tell which tenant I'm connected to at any given time. I manage two 365 tenants and have even considered using two laptops—one for each tenant. I'm wondering how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) deal with this situation daily.
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I've found that using PowerShell with Visual Studio Code works really well for me. You can have multiple terminals open in the same VS Code window, which makes it easy to manage sessions across different tenants. Makes life a lot easier!
I rely on GDAP relationships with multiple tenants. This lets me sign in with one account that has admin roles across managed tenants, so I can just switch between management portals seamlessly. I keep security tight since it combines everything in one account.
For web, I use different user profiles in Chrome, but honestly, Firefox containers are even better since you can keep them all in one window. If you have the resources, tools like CIPP could simplify things a lot too!
But don't you run into issues with GDAP? I’ve had errors like "Error trying to get OneDrive settings" when switching to tabs in the admin center.