Activating Azure Education Software for Students

Problem noticed spring 2025 by some students trying to access Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 from Microsofts Azure DevTools for Education website.

For some reason or another there are students when they go to https://azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools and then to learning resources and software, it doesn’t populate more than 5 tools. For most students, they will see 74 Items within seconds of going to the software page. If you have a student with only 5 items, follow the steps below.

· On your preferred browser, navigate to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students or search “azure for students”

· Click on “Start Free”

· Sign into the Microsoft sign-in with your StarID@go.minnstate.edu and your StarID password. Verify your identity and continue.

· Put Winona State University in the School Name field. Put in your date of birth, then complete the captcha. After that, you should be able to click “Verify academic status.”

· On the next page, you need to fill in personal information about yourself. It is asking for your billing address. Once filled out, make sure to check the first box. The second box is personal preference.

· Microsoft will request that you set up multifactor authentication. Since this should already be done, click next and it will skip this step and open up azure’s education page.

· You should now be on the Azure Education Overview page. This page is what you will navigate to download software. On the left, click on “Learning resources,” then click on “Software.” There should be 74 Items available for you to download now.