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>> Hello, there. My name is Esteban Herrera,
and I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Subscriptions team.
Thank you for joining me today as I share some tips and
tricks on how to get the
most out of your Visual Studio Subscription.
Did you know that with your Visual Studio Subscription,
you get so much more than the IDE itself?
In 2016, MSDN Subscriptions became Visual Studio Subscriptions.
Even though we had a name change,
we continued to include
all the great things that came with MSDN Subscriptions,
from Azure benefits that helped you explore Cloud development,
to Pluralsight, and LinkedIn
learning benefits so you can grow your skills.
You can check out everything included with
your subscription at my.visualstudio.com.
Benefits vary depending on your subscription level.
If you're a member of a program like
Dev Essentials and have
a page subscriptions or multiple subscriptions,
you can use this picker to select
your specific subscription and
see which benefits are included with that.
For example, with this Visual Studio
Professional and GitHub Enterprise Subscription,
I get a portal site,
three month subscription included.
There are Azure monthly credits that I can use,
and a plethora of other benefits available to me.
You have up to $150 credit each month to spend on
learning and experimenting with
your DevOps test workload on Azure,
or developing a proof of concept.
You can use the credits to create
your first static website on Azure or
incorporate speech recognition or
other AI tools into your existing apps.
You can discover more ideas of how to use
your Azure credits at ak.ms\vssazurescenarios.
That is this website.
You'll get lots of ideas and
inspiration on how you can use these credits.
To access your Azure credit,
just sign in to that benefits site,
and click on the Azure benefit title and you'll be
directed to log in and activate your whole credits.
There's no payment required, no credit card.
If your credit runs out during the month,
your Azure services will be automatically
suspended until the beginning of the next month.
You always have the option to re-enable
those services with a payment method.
You also have several learning benefits like Pluralsight.
Again, you activate that by going to the benefits site,
finding the benefit, and clicking "Activate".
Pluralsight has a plethora of expert offered video courses,
skill assessments, and other tools to help you expand your skills.
In addition to those benefits and the Visual Studio IDE,
subscriptions can include access to
an extensive library of
Microsoft software available for
download that's found here on the downloads page.
You can pick one of the most commonly downloaded products listed,
or if you're looking for something specific,
you can use the search.
Once you find it, you follow the directions to download.
Depending on the product you are looking to use,
you can either sign in using
the e-mail address your subscription is assigned to,
or claim a product key.
To get a list of all the available product keys
and products without the download,
go over to the product keys page out here.
The Get Help page is filled with
resources to help you get started and
troubleshoot issues with Visual Studio or your subscription.
Visual Studio Subscriptions support assist with
sale subscriptions of account and billing issues.
If you have [inaudible].
If your issue is related to installations,
then quickly get help
by chatting with our team on Visualstudio.com.
We also have extensive IDE documentation
showing you tutorials in troubleshooting guys.
Like I said before,
your subscription comes with so much more than just Visual Studio.
I encourage you to explore
this benefits page found on my.visualstudio.com.
Thank you again for joining me today.
I highly encourage you to check out
my.visualstudio.com to dig into
what comes with your Visual Studio Subscription,
so you can get the most and explore all the offerings we have.
I'm excited to hear your feedback. Thank you for your time.