Sign in to Visual Studio with Organization account instead Microsoft account

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Hrvoje Kusulja picture Hrvoje Kusulja · Jul 25, 2014 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

Nowadays it is possible to use Visual Studio Team Services from Microsoft Azure with Organization account, without having to have Microsoft Account. This is nice feature and we use it in our organization. However it seems that we are not able to activate / use Sign in to visual studio button and login with Organization account, because only Microsoft account prompt is shown.

Is it possible, and if so, how to login/sign-in/activate Visual Studio 2013 desktop program with Azure Organization Account instead Microsoft Account ?

Answer

astaykov picture astaykov · Jul 25, 2014

Visual Studio Team Services is different service from VIsual Studio Desktop.

As of Today I am not aware of the possibility to sign-in to Visual Studio Desktop with OrgID. However, you absolutely will have no problems signing in to your Team Services using OrgID and use the Team Services from within the Visual Studio Desktop IDE.

Last but not least, Sign-in to Visual Studio IDE provide service that is absolutely different and has nothing to do with the Team Services.

Just one of all the features the "Visual Studio Sign-in" provides, is to automatically sign you in to your Team Services account. But if your Team Services account is an OrgId, then you will have to use the OrgId when accessing the Team Projects. That's it. There is no restriction on accessing the team projects.

UPDATE

Almost two years after the original answer, it is now possible to login to Visual Studio Team Services using Organisational Accounts. Check more here.

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