This article was originally published on my old blog.
Did you ever want to play around with Office 365 platform without making any money investment? Here I will show you how you can do that. You can create an Office 365 tenant with prefilled demo content like demo users, documents, emails, etc. Then you can request an 90 days demo tenant from Microsoft in which you can evaluate the features and functions of Office 365.
Where to start?
You need to go to the following website.
Microsoft Office 365 Demo Tenant Creation:
If you are a Microsoft Partner, you can click on the blue box “Microsoft Partner” as shown in Figure 1. You will have to log in with an account that is linked to your Microsoft partnership.
Once you have login successfully, you will be on the home page of Microsoft Office Division Demos. In the top menu as shown in Figure 2 click the menu item “GET DEMO”.
On the Get Demo page, you have various options to set up different types of Office 365 tenants.
As shown in Figure 3 you have the following options:
- Create a new demo environment
- Refresh an existing demo environment
- Bring your own tenant
- Create an empty Office 365 tenant
Once you select your setup type, you need to follow the wizard steps provided. Please be aware that these Office 365 Demo tenants are only available for 90 days. After that, you will need to pay money if you want to keep the tenant. The provisioning of a new Office 365 demo tenant can take hours to 3 days. You need to be patient, and you can always come back to this website to monitor the progress of the tenant setup.
When the demo tenant’s setup is completed, you will receive a mail with the login details to your tenant.
Summary
Microsoft has made it easy for you to create an Office 365 Demo tenant who allows you to view and experience the latest features that are provided on the platform. Take action now and create your demo tenant. Let me know about your experience or if you have any questions.
