Tip: Microsoft 365 Dev Program

Microsoft has a program that you can get a free Microsoft 365 license for Dev purposes.

Include on this program:

• Includes 25 user licenses for development purposes
• Preconfigured for sideloading Teams apps
• Fully loaded sample data with 16 sample users, user data, and content to help you model your solutions.
• Easy access to pre-provisioned core Microsoft 365 workloads and capabilities (Windows not included), including:
  • All Office 365 apps
  • Everything you need for Power Platform development
  • Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
  • Advanced analytics with Power BI
  • Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) for compliance and information protection
  • Azure Active Directory for building advanced identity and access management solutions

Microsoft Docs:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/developer-program/microsoft-365-developer-program

Dev Program:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program 

As long as you are using it for development the licenses do not expire.

Sideloading disabled - Microsoft Teams

 I got this message when I created an App for Microsoft Teams using Teams Toolkit:

 

The process to enable Sideloading is simple, just go to the Teams admin center and enable the "Upload custom apps", I did for the entire Org, but my Tenant is just for the test it is not production, for production you can create custom policy and apply just for the users that you want.

After I closed the VS and open again: Sideloading enabled.