Set up your development account - Microsoft Teams Tutorial

- [Bill] Before we can do anything, we need a Microsoft 365 tenant that we can use to experiment in and build our solution. And yes, even if you already have a tenant, I strongly encourage you to get a Microsoft 365 developer tenant so that we can create teams and users to test our apps without impacting anyone else or, heaven forbid, causing some kind of damage to our organization's production tenant. We're going to very quickly set up a developer account that we can use to work in. I recommend that you, first of all, create a Microsoft account, so start an in private browser window in whatever browser you're using and go to outlook.com. And that's Microsoft's consumer offering. And once you get there, it'll say Sign In. And there's a button, Create a free account, so I'm going to choose that. So if you don't use an in private window, there's a good chance there'll be a cookie setup and you'll be logged in with some existing account. So we need to come up with a name. It doesn't really matter what. I'll type something at random in here. That's already been used. Well, maybe we have to go a bit further with this in obfuscating. Right, now we're successful, and I just need to make a note of that, otherwise I'll forget it. And if you can come up with something memorable, so much the better. I've typed in a password. And I can use my real name here. I think I can trust Microsoft. Not going to be quite so open about my date of birth. Just need to make sure it's over 18. And that should now go and set that account up. They'll probably ask you to solve a little CAPTCHA puzzle, which shouldn't be too difficult. And now that I've proved that I'm not a robot, I have a Microsoft account with an email. And some consumer versions of Outlook, and Word, et cetera. So this is the consumer product, of course. This is not Microsoft 365. So now that we've created a Microsoft account, the next thing I want to do is create a Microsoft 365 developer tenant. So I'm going to open another tab in this same browser instance, and this time I'm going to go to dev.microsoft.com. It actually resolves to developer.microsoft.com, and there's a link here to Microsoft 365 that we want. Not this one, Microsoft Teams. That just takes you to the documentation. And on the Microsoft 365 page it says, "Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program. LEARN MORE." And then I can click on JOIN NOW. Now, the design of these pages does vary from time to time, but it should look something like this. And now we need to sign in with that account that we just set up. So I'm going to put in the account name, which was testdev267@outlook.com. And now I can set my region and the name of the company, which we're going to call Picturematic. And I'm going to accept the terms and conditions. And there's a few options here I'm not entirely sure if they really matter, but we'll play along with that. So we now need to set up the subscription so we get an E5 subscription. We will need that as well, or we won't get any applications, like Teams. So I'm going to create a username in here called Bill, and I now need to create the tenant name. So technically this is the tenant name. Again, it has to be unique. It'll tell me if it isn't. I think I'm okay with that one. So that tenant name forms the domain, the default domain, which is picturematic.onmicrosoft.com, and of course you can create custom domains as well, register a domain and use that. We're not going to bother to do that for this course. I'm going to now type in a password, and I'm going to type it in again. And they don't match. Not even the same length. Think I did something wrong with that one. Now they match. Now, it is going to ask me for a phone number and verify it, so I'm going to do this offscreen for a second. So I now have a developer account with an Office 365 E5 subscription, up to 25 users. Going to click Go to subscription. I will probably have to give my password again. And now you can see I have an Office 365 account. Just need to make sure, what if I go to Teams? If I can open Teams, I know I'm set up. And we can add more users and give them licenses later. So I just need to login again. And it signs me into Teams, I hope. And just be aware that the Microsoft 365 tenant provisioning process can take a few minutes, so I need to just... I'm going to ignore this introductory help text. Now, this is the Microsoft Teams client running in the browser. You can see I can also download the desktop app, and I can create a new team in here, actually, to practice with. So there's one called picturematic, but we can create another team. There is buttons to do that. And we'll do it from scratch. They give you a few templates to work with. It will be a public team. Going to call it Another Team. Not bother to do a description. And we can start adding members, or we don't really have anybody to add. We might do that later. So one last thing to check in here is that I can side load apps, so if I go to the Apps control here, I can see I do have an option now to upload a customized app, which is fine. So that seems to be working, but if it isn't for any reason, you'd want to go to your admin pages, and you'll get repeated logins here, which we'll just have to click through, because we're going to different sites. This one's admin.microsoft.com, and we're going to do another jump now to the Teams admin center. And finally, I can go to Teams apps, and then Setup policies. And it's actually, I need to go to the Global settings, and upload custom acts... Is actually disabled here, so I'm going to... It is off. I want to make it on. That's what I want to do, so that's... Set that up. That should allow me to upload or side load applications which we'll be using later.