Setup Free Developer Office365 Account

Divya Goyal
Nov 4 · 3 min read

Whether you want to test your Office 365 or Azure application or you want to play around with Office 365 applications & admin center, you can setup this developer account for absolutely free in 4 simple steps.

Benefits of Developer Account:

  • Get free 25 E5 user licenses for 90 days without giving any credit card or billing information. Sometimes 90 days period is extended by Microsoft.
  • Use these licenses for testing Office 365 applications like OneDrive, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.
  • Hands-on with Office 365 admin center and Azure portal.

Setting Up Developer Account:

Step 1:

Step 2:

Either sign in to your existing Microsoft Account or create a new one using your phone number or new email address. Proceed to Step 3 if you have used an existing Microsoft account or are not getting below error on the creation of a new account.

Do not worry! Just close it. Click on Profile Icon(1) and then click on “Add your name”(2).

Fill the required details in the form:

Go to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/profile.

It might take some time to reflect from the Microsoft side. Wait for some time. You can also try to sign out and sign in again to this account. It worked for me.

Step 3:

Now you will get a form like below. Fill the required details and accept the terms and conditions.

Complete the next form as per your wish. Prefer checking personal projects.

On clicking next, a screen like this will be shown:

Close this dialog.

Step 4:

Click on setup a subscription. A pop-up will appear:

Fill the required details. It is very likely that the domain name might exist so choose a unique name.

Click Continue. Add a working phone number for security to get OTP.

After verifying the OTP, click the Set up button.

Congrats! You now have a developer subscription.

Additional Option:

You can get 16 sample fictitious users and their mail & events using the Sample data packs option. This option is useful for testing purposes.

Admin Center:

You need to sign in using your Global Administrator account you created in step 4 to manage users, groups and your domain. For example, I will use divya@off365sample.onmicrosoft.com for managing my account.

Call to Action

If this article helped you do not forget to clap and share it with your friends. In case of issues while following the steps, write to me in the comment section below.

In the upcoming article, I will be writing about working with the Office 365 admin center which will include the creation of users, guest and external users, groups and other options.

Divya Goyal

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