I have Azure developer role within my organisation's tenant that is very limited in what I can do.

For this reason, to dive in full access and try different unlimited Azure resources you would need to enrol in a Microsoft 365 Developer Program with your personal or work email if you have such opportunity.

I had a Visual Studio Subscription at work from before which I used to create a personal dev account once. But somehow I f***ed that up and was no longer eligible for that.

When it comes to the dev program, Microsoft will never give you a second chance if any of these assets were used before for this purpose:

• e-mail address


• phone number


• credit card

If you want to register again with some you get a polite FO message:

Thank you for joining. You don't current qualify for a Microsoft 365 Developer Program sandbox subscription.

What to do to re-join

I tried copies times to re-join creating dummy emails but all in vain. When navigating back and forth I finally stumbled upon a chat bot somewhere, maybe here...

I started writing some bollocks and finally was offered to talk to a human. I explained my situation and the agent was humble enough to offer me a new sign-up and send a personalised link. But for that I would need an email that I didn't previously use for the dev program.

To succeed you would want to:

1. Create a fresh email, gmail suits perfect.


2. Use the phone number that was never used for the dev program. A fried's phone will do as well as it's used only once during the registration process for code confirmation.


3. Have a bank card that was neither used for the same.

I provided new email address and got back an email with subject Access to a New Azure Free Trial

The link with custom-made URL params would take me to https://signup.azure.com/ where in steps I provided email, phone number, bank card details and finally registered.