How to get a Microsoft 365 demo tenant

Antonio Soto
1 min readJan 25, 2022

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If you’re looking to have a Microsoft 365 tenant for testing, the best way to do this is through the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, accessible in the Microsoft 365 Developer Center. With it, you get a free and renewable subscription of 90 days, of Microsoft 365 E5, for 25 users, and also with sample packages to load data (users, emails, etc …) and thus be able to simulate all the scenarios that we come up with, without having to disburse money, and in a controlled test environment. The only requirement is to have a Microsoft account, with which to join the program.

The step by step process would be:

  1. Join the program on the https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program page
  2. Once in the profile go to the Option Set Up Subscription
  3. In the provide dialog box: user, domain and password. This account will be the global administrator of your subscription.

From that moment, we will be able to access the Microsoft 365 Administration Center in https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/homepage with the credentials generated in the previous point, and start with our tests!

This is the easier and powerful way to start your journey to create Power BI environments, Power Apps aplications and any other Microsoft platform applications or add-ins. Let´s rock!

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Antonio Soto

After more than 20 years managing information systems, mainly in Microsoft environments, with special focus on Business Intelligence systems and data management