Acquire Microsoft Accounts for Testing

Question

Hello, I am from the Microsoft Search, Assistant, and Intelligence (MSAI) team. I work on the FrisBEE platform which handles all of the end-to-end testing needs of our team and our internal Microsoft partners.

As part of the end-to-end testing, we provide accounts for our partners to use to simulate actual users interacting with their services. Currently, we own three (3) Azure tenants where we can create any number of sdfv2, sip, or ww accounts for use in testing. We are, however, unable to create MSIT accounts. This is causing a gap in our coverage. Our internal Microsoft partners require full coverage as they roll out features to external customers. Their deployment rings are sdfv2, msit, sip, ww.

Now, my question: How can our team acquire MSIT accounts on-demand for testing purposes? Can we be granted permission in the Microsoft tenant to create test-only accounts? Is there a separate tenant that mirrors the MSIT one that can be used to plug this gap?

Answer 1

Hi Ryan,
Do you have access to demo.microsoft.com?
That's what I use to get access to demo accounts.
It's available to Microsoft partners so it might be an option to you?
The accounts expire after 90 days or 1 year depending on your choice but I find it very helpful.
You will still need to provide a subscription and associate a credit card with that subscription but in my experience it costs me about $3 CAD per month.
If I need VMs i just run them on my home workstation to save cost.
Good luck!