Microsoft Azure free trial student: No access to Active Directory

I am an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee teaching Cloud Computing for the first time this semester. In order to follow what my students are experiencing in the course I am teaching, I signed up for an Azure for Students account using my uwm.edu email address. Using this account, I am encountering the same problems that are defined above. I cannot access the Active Directory with my Azure for Students account. Because of this, I cannot register an application for API access (ie. cannot get a client ID), so neither I nor my students can access their Azure resources using the Python SDK.

I'm assuming that Microsoft's intent is not to prevent students from using Azure for Students to access their resources via the SDKs. Please correct me if I am wrong. (I will need to redesign my course.)

I read the instructions above and it says I need to contact my Global admin in order to try to get AAD access. I have no idea who this might be. I see that there is a directory for uwm.edu, but unfortunately UWM is a large institution with over 20,000 students - a large bureaucracy. Can you provide me a means to contact my Global admin? After I get access myself, I will need to ask for access for the 41 students in my course as well.

Any advice on how to get this done efficiently would be much appreciated.

Hi Mattia,
are you sure your school email gives you access to Azure or just office.com?
Your Azure admin would need to provide those permissions.

Hi Mattia,
It's possible your account is associated with another Azure tenant?
If so, try opening an anonymous/incognito browser before you sign up for your azure account.
This will ensure that Azure does't find any browser tokens that are associated with another tenant.
Good luck.

@boilermatto

As I understand, you have signed up for Azure with your school email address and you are unable to access active directory once you login to Azure portal.
Looks like your school email address was already part of Azure and now you signed up for free Azure trial to which you should be the owner.

When you login to Azure portal by default it is taking you to your old directory.
You can use switch directory option to access the new directory that you have signed up recently.

1. Login to Azure portal with your school account
2. Click on the account on top right corner and click on "switch directory"
3. you will be able to see all the directories to which you are part of.
4. Select the directory that you recently created and now you should have access to active directory.

If this still doesn't fix the issue, I have also read your comment stating you are already owner of the subscription.

If you are owner of the subscription, you will be able see and manager Azure resources groups and resources. Access Azure active directory can still be blocked if you are not being assigned any role in Azure active directory. You will have to contact your Global admin of this directory and ask them to provide you admin access to the active directory.

NOTE: Subscription roles are different from Azure active directory roles

Do let me know if you have any further questions.

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