Create a free Azure Active Directory developer tenant

Updated: July 2, 2020

There are 2 easy ways to create a free Azure Active Directory with a P1 or P2 trial license so you can install the Verifiable Credential Issuer service and you can test creating and validating Verifiable Credentials:

  • Join the free Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free sandbox, tools, and other resources like an Azure Active Directory with P2 licenses. Configured Users, Groups, mailboxes etc.
  • Create a new tenant and activate a free trial of Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 in your new tenant.

If you decide to sign up for the free M365 developer program you need to follow a few easy steps:

1
Click on the Join Now button on the screen

2
Sign in with a new Microsoft Account or use an existing (work) account you already have
3
On the signup page select your region, enter a company name and accept the terms and conditions of the program before you click next
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Click on set up subscription. Specify the region where you want to create your new tenant, create a username, domain and enter a password. This will create a new tenant and the first administrator of the tenant
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Enter the security information which is needed to protect the administrator account of your new tenant. This will setup MFA authentication for the account

At this point you have created a tenant with 25 E5 user licenses. This includes Azure AD P2 licenses. Optionally you can add sample data packs with users, groups, mail and SharePoint if you need these for your development environment. For the Verifiable Credential Issuing service, these are not required.

For your convenience you could add your own work account as guest in the newly created tenant and use that account to administer the tenant. If you want the guest account to be able to administer the Verifiable Credential Service you need to assign the role 'Global Administrator' to that user.



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