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>> As a Visual Studio Subscriptions admin,
you hold the unique role of ensuring your developers
are taking advantage of all the benefits
that Visual Studio subscriptions has to offer.
By assigning subscriptions,
you're unlocking services and benefits for your developers
allowing them to create better and higher quality apps,
be more productive,
and to accelerate their individual growth.
Depending on which subscription levels
your organization has purchased,
your developers can have up to $150 monthly credit
to use towards learning and experimenting
on any Azure service,
spinning up Windows 10 virtual machine images, and more.
Organizations with Visual Studio subscribers
can also take advantage of discounted Azure dev/test rates
for a variety of Azure services,
enabling cost-efficient, ongoing development and testing.
For more information about the benefits of developing
and testing on Azure, visit aka.ms/DevTestSolutions.
If your organization has Visual Studio subscriptions
with GitHub Enterprise,
assigning subscriptions to your developers' email ensures
that they can receive and accept their invitation to GitHub.
GitHub Enterprise empowers your developers
to innovate collaboratively
with the power of open-source code,
code-to-cloud automation, and end-to-end security.
Visual Studio subscribers have access
to all Microsoft software for dev/test,
including older versions of Visual Studio.
However, if you need more control
over how your developers utilize their subscriptions,
you also have the option to disable downloads,
so they can still use their benefits,
while not accessing downloads.
Additional benefits your subscribers
can take advantage of include training from Pluralsight
and LinkedIn Learning to further their developer education.
Not only is there training available,
but there are technical support incidents available
to them to help them with their tough projects.
All the benefits connected together provide
a valuable offering, and as the admin,
you can help them get started on this journey.
If your organization has both Visual Studio Enterprise
and Visual Studio Professional subscriptions,
be sure to assign Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions
first to take advantage of its additional components.
Visual Studio Enterprise comes with more testing,
debugging, and cross-platform development features,
enabling developers to deliver code with quality,
accuracy, and speed
while shifting development left
to catch security vulnerabilities as early as possible.
The subscription also includes more Azure credits,
software licenses for dev/test purposes,
and longer training subscriptions to support innovation
for a variety of platforms.
To make assignment even easier
for those who can over-assign subscriptions,
the Visual Studio Subscriptions admin portal
is now integrated with Azure Active Directory groups.
Automate your subscription assignment
by creating groups in Azure AD,
add them in the admin portal
and choose a subscription level.
Make sure your subscribers are added to this group
as part of their onboarding
so they're automatically given a subscription.
This helps you increase governance and keeps you compliant
because once they're removed from that group,
they no longer have access to subscriptions.
To find out more about using Azure AD groups
in the admin portal, visit aka.ms/VSSAADgroups.
By assigning subscriptions
you empower your team with possibilities,
so don't hesitate and start assigning subscriptions today!