My Visual Studio Registration

If your organization is a competency partner, please make sure that in your Partner Membership Center you hold the Visual Studio (formely MSDN) privilege (assigned by an administrator of your company) for at least 24 hours. 

If your organization is an Action Pack subscriber, please make sure that in your Partner Membership Center, you hold the role of a technical contact (assigned by an administrator of your company) for at least 24 hours. To access your subscription on the My Visual Studio portal, please follow the steps listed below:

1. Please go to My.VisualStudio.com home page at https://myvisualstudio.com

     2.  Enter the email used as contact email address in your individual profile.  (If this email address is not yet an MS Account, please create one at account.live.com and request for either a technical role for Action pack pr Visual Studio privilege for Competency parnters)  

     3.  Alternatively you may sign in using an email address of any domain you have added to an active cloud subscription (MPN benefit or purchased)

If the sign in email domain exists within Azure Active Directory (AAD), and it also exists as an MS Account, you will get the option to leverage it as aWork Account or Personal (MS) account.  You can select either as the sign in will direct to subscription regardless.

  

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      4. This will bring you to the Visual Studio Subscriptions portal where you can see your subscription level from the top right corner, below the navigation ribbon. 

In order to gain access to the new My Visual Studio portal it is necessary for you to login using your Microsoft account.

1. Please go to the My.VisualStudio.com homepage at: https://my.visualstudio.com 
2. Sign in with the same Microsoft Account (aka Live ID) as used on the legacy MSDN.microsoft.com portal. Note: This may not be the same as used for accessing the Partner Membership Center or the contact email address from your individual profile. 
3. If the sign in email domain exists within Azure Active Directory (AAD), you will get the option to leverage it as a Work/School Account = AAD account or Personal account = Microsoft account. You need to select the Personal Account option since the email was being used as a Microsoft account to access the Legacy portal (https://msdn.microsoft.com) previously.

This will bring you to the Visual Studio Subscriptions portal where you can see your subscription level in the top right corner, below the navigation ribbon.

Learn how to resolve a "maximum allowable individuals" error when attempting to assign Visual Studio Online subscriptions to new users.

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Scenario:

Partners may receive the following message when attempting to assign Visual Studio Online subscriptions to new users, even though the account may contain unused Visual Studio Online subscriptions:

"You have reached the maximum allowable individuals who can be assigned to your organization's Visual Studio Online subscription."

Background Information:

Before solving this issue, you should understand the relationship between Technical IDs and Visual Studio Online subscriptions.

• A Technical ID is an identification number users receive when they:
  • are or were assigned a Technical Contact Role.
  • have or had an Active Visual Studio Online subscription.
• A Visual Studio Online subscription requires a Technical ID number in order to be linked to an individual. You can verify this by viewing the screenshot below which presents you with the Subscription Activation screen seen here. Under Subscriber ID you can see that you need to enter the Benefit Access Number, Subscriber ID, or Microsoft Partner Network Technical Contact ID.

Now that you know the relationship between a Technical ID and Visual Studio Online subscription, you should understand the dynamics of a Technical ID.

If Person 1 becomes Technical Contact 1, he or she will receive a Technical ID. However if Person 1 is removed from Technical Contact 1, the Technical ID will stay assigned to Person 1 as long as Person 1 stays associated to the organization. If in the future Person 2 is assigned to the Technical Contact 1 role, he or she will receive a new Technical ID. Each new person assigned to a Technical Contact role will receive a new Technical ID.

The same concept applies to Visual Studio Online subscriptions. If Person 1 is assigned Visual Studio Online Subscription 1 and later is removed from Visual Studio Online Subscription 1, Person 1 will maintain their Technical ID. However, they will not have an assigned Visual Studio Online subscription. The removal of a Technical ID is not automatic, so the Partner Membership Center will continue assigning Technical IDs until 120% of the Visual Studio Online subscription benefit is met.

The ratio of existing technical IDs to Visual Studio Online subscriptions cannot exceed 120% of Visual Studio Online subscriptions. If the ratio of Technical IDs has reached 120% of Visual Studio Online subscriptions, the Partner Membership Center will not create a new Technical ID because the maximum amount of Technical IDs has been reached, even if all Visual Studio Online subscriptions are not used.

In order to resolve this scenario, the individuals who have a Technical ID and are not making use of a Visual Studio Online subscription should be disassociated and re-associated into the organization. When they are re-associated, they will no longer have a Technical ID and will make way for new Technical IDs to be created and assigned Visual Studio Online subscription benefits.

Solution:

Disassociate and re-associate individuals with an unused Technical ID to free up Technical ID slots:

1. In the Partner Membership Center, select Requirements & Assets and click on Associated People.
2. From the list of all the associated people, collect the names of the individuals who have a Technical ID assigned to them.
3. Go to the Program Contacts tab and collect the First and Last Names of the individuals listed as First, Second, and Third Technical Contacts.
4. Click the Privileges tab and you will be directed to a new section, which has the tabs General Privileges and Visual Studio Online Subscriptions. Click on Visual Studio Online Subscriptions.
5. Collect the First and Last Names of all individuals who have the Premium check box selected. These are the individuals with an assigned Visual Studio Online subscription.

Once Technical ID slots become available, you can then assign Visual Studio Online subscriptions to new users. Please note that after a new Technical ID has been created and assigned a Visual Studio Online subscription, the new user must wait three business days to activate their subscription.

If you have any further questions, contact your Frontline Support by initiating at chat at MPN Portal.

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