{"id":1163,"date":"2014-05-27T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2014\/05\/27\/top-things-a-new-visual-studio-online-account-owner-should-know\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T08:22:50","slug":"top-things-a-new-visual-studio-online-account-owner-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-things-a-new-visual-studio-online-account-owner-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Top things a new Visual Studio Online account owner should know"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Visual Studio Online, I realized I have not installed an On-premise Team Foundation Server in a while.\u00a0 The convenience of these online accounts always being available, having the server automatically upgraded, and of course access to services such as Cloud Load Test<\/a>, Hosted Build<\/a> and Application Insights<\/a> takes it from an incredible inconvenience to a must have!<\/p>\n

Regardless if you just created your Visual Studio Online account<\/a> or have been using it for a while here are some tips to help you out:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 **Create a Team Project******<\/p>\n

You now have access to a wide set of developer services, but before you start, most of the Visual Studio Online (VSO) services like source control or project tracking require you to create a team project in Visual Studio Online. You can create a new project from scratch<\/a> or migrate an existing project<\/a>. Other services, like Application Insights and Load Test, can be activated from your IDE. To learn how to start using these services, check out our get started guides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Manage access for your team members<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your VSO account comes with 5 Basic accounts so you can add team members who don\u2019t have an MSDN subscription and ability to add an unlimited number of team mates if they have MSDN Subscriptions\u2026.BUT YOU NEED TO ADD THEM! \u2013and obviously you don\u2019t want use one of your 5 \u201cfree\u201d basic accounts if they have an MSDN subscriptions. To manage users and their user plans in one place<\/a>, go to your account’s Users<\/strong> page: https:\/\/youraccount<\/strong>.visualstudio.com\/_user<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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One of the frequently asked questions we see is:<\/p>\n

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***If I allocated one of my purchased plans to user and later remove that later do lose my purchase?<\/font> ***<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NO!<\/strong> Removing a user doesn’t remove their user plan from your account. You can reuse that plan for another user. If you bought that plan through Microsoft Azure and don’t want to get charged for it at the next billing cycle, go to the Microsoft Azure Management portal<\/a> to remove that plan from your account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Identify eligible MSDN subscribers on your team<\/strong><\/p>\n

If team members have eligible MSDN subscriptions<\/a>, they can use Visual Studio Online as a subscription benefit. This means you don’t have to assign them a user plan, but you do have to help us identify them first.<\/p>\n

When you add team members on your account’s Users<\/strong> page, use the Microsoft account (previously “Live ID”) associated with their subscription and set them to Eligible MSDN Subscriber<\/strong><\/a>. They might have to wait a few hours to get their subscription validated, but after that, they can sign in and start working!<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Free stuff for your account<\/strong><\/p>\n

You get 5 free Basic user plans with each Visual Studio Online account, plus free monthly resources: 60 minutes for automated cloud-hosted builds and 15,000 virtual user minutes for cloud-hosted load testing. Eligible MSDN subscribers don’t need user plans. You can see the use of these resources on your VSO account home page\u2026.A lot of people don\u2019t realize we often make announcements here too!<\/p>\n

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\u00b7 Add backup administrators<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have a big team, it might help to have extra administrators manage projects and collections, configure iterations, and so on. To promote users to administrators, go here:<\/p>\n

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\u00b7 Set YOUR Visual Studio Online owner account to an account you use!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week I received an email from a team member and he was locked out of HIS OWN VSO ACCOUNT. The reason he was locked out is he had created the Visual Studio Online Account with a Microsoft ID, added his work account as an early adopter account forgot all about the ID he had created the VSO Account with. Had he changed the owner to his work account he would have received warning emails AND would have retained access!<\/p>\n

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\u00b7 **Need more user plans or resources? **<\/p>\n

Go to the Microsoft Azure Management portal<\/a> and link your Visual Studio Online account to a Microsoft Azure subscription for billing<\/a>. After you do this, you can buy more user plans, resources, or upgrade users.<\/p>\n

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Hope this helps!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chuck and the Visual Studio Online team<\/p>\n

PS: Don’t see something specific? Please leave us a comment so we can add it. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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