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Use Your MSDN Benefit to Convert Your Office 365 Developer Preview

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The easiest way to get started developing SharePoint apps with LightSwitch is to sign up for a free trial of an Office 365 Developer account at dev.office.com. Because Office 365 has moved from preview to release, if you signed up for a preview account, you have until May 31st to convert it to a paid subscription. Doing so will save all your content.

You can use your MSDN subscription benefit to get a year free. Here’s a step-by-step slideshare by Randall Isenhour (@SharePointDev) from the Office content team.

Convert Office 365 Developer Preview to paid subscription using MSDN benefit from Randall Isenhour

I just converted mine and it took about 5 minutes.

For more details see the Apps For Office and SharePoint Blog:
Convert your Office 365 Developer Subscription Preview to a General Availability subscription to save your content

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2013
    I am fairly sure that Office has a spel chekker.  Is "singed up" korrek?

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2013
    Is there any news on what will happen after a year is up, assuming I buy another years MSDN will I be able to redeem that for another year of the developer subscription?  Otherwise I'll just save it up in-case I need it in future :)

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2013
    @LS - LOL. I'll ask if we can move our blogs to Office 365 ;-) @Simon - I'm not sure, good question. I'd ask in the apps forums: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../appsforsharepoint And if I find out, I'll post back here.

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2013
    @Beth, thanks for having a sense of humor.  I appreciate all that you do.

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2013
    Hi Beth, Where should I look for help if the steps in the slide deck go sideways? I had a trial Office365 Dev account and MSDN Premium and when I got to slide 19 in the conversion from trail to MSDN subscription, I got slapped in the face, and rejected sadly at the front door. Here is what I got, instead of the nice message inviting me to add the subscription to an existing account. Where to go??? We're sorry, this offer is not available The offer you requested may not be available for one of the following reasons. •The subscription you want is no longer offered by Microsoft. •You can sign up for a trial only once and this is the second time that you are trying to sign up for the same trial. •You are requesting a beta or trial that has expired. •The invitation code has already been consumed or is no longer valid. For more information, contact the Microsoft partner that gave you the link to this offer.

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2013
    @DRGleason - Sorry you're having trouble. I would ask in the official office apps forums here: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../apps If you're not getting a response there let me know and I'll try and track down someone here to help. -Beth

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2013
    @DRGleason -- Thanks for the support! I'm not quite clear on the problems you're having with SharePoint though. Can you start a thread in the LightSwitch forum explaining what you're trying to do and the result you're having and I'll make sure our SharePoint guys have a look.  social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads Cheers, -Beth

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2013
    Office 365 Executive ML