Ability to Change Default Subscription for Existing Nerdio Accounts

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Aaron Hanney

Hi Nerdio Product Team,

Following a recent support interaction, I’d like to formally request the ability to change the default Azure subscription associated with an existing Nerdio Manager account.

In my current scenario, a customer was initially deployed using a donation subscription, but has since been migrated to a CSP subscription. Although I’ve removed all resource group links from the old subscription, Nerdio still references legacy components (such as VNets and automation accounts), preventing me from running tasks successfully in the new environment.

The only workaround appears to be recreating the account again in Nerdio with the new subscription. 

Suggested Feature:

  • Ability to update the default subscription and resource group targets for existing Nerdio accounts.

This feature would greatly improve flexibility and reduce administrative overhead for partners managing customer transitions between Azure subscriptions.

Thanks for considering!

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Dave Stephenson

Welcome to the community, Aaron Hanney 🙂!

That's a great idea.
We have the ability to link multiple subscriptions, but no way, currently, to change the default subscription.
There might be some technical reason(s) behind not changing the default subscription, but if we can add the ability, it would be nice if/when subscriptions change.

Out of curiosity, are you fighting this limitation with the majority of your customers or is this more for your internal environment where you may be working from multiple subscriptions with Azure Partner Credits?

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Aaron Hanney

Hi Dave,

It’s just a handful of customers we’re transitioning off donation subscriptions — mainly because it’s not a cost-effective way to run AVD environments at scale. That’s how this issue came up.

But you make a great point about Partner Credits — I can definitely see this becoming a potential stumbling block there as well.

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Dave Stephenson

Great point, Aaron.

I didn't even think about the non-profit/donation subscriptions.


At NerdioCon 2025, I was in a conversation about possibly adding the ability to easily move a customer's environment from one partner (NMM install) to another partner.
Maybe if we combine that idea with this one, they can help each other along?

Ideally, we can find some kind of API way to utilize the Azure Resource Mover to move resources or modify the subscription for existing items and not have to change a lot of the underlying functionality of NMM. However, our Product Team is great and will trying to find the best solution.

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Rob Jefferies

Had the same issue via a support request, it was fixed with an update to the sql tables. 

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