The last year i have been using demos.microsoft.com to create Office 365 demo tenants for workshops and speaker sessions. The page have recently gotten a huge facelift/upgrade, so i thought i woudl give you a short overview.

If you go to My Environments you now have two choices. Create a Tenant or Virtual Machine.

We choose to create a tenant first. You can select Quick Tenant or 90 Day.
It does not say how long a Quick Tenant last, but my guess is 24 hours. We create a 90 day tenant, and select our region.

You can choose from a wide variety of tenant content. Press Create Tenant on your choice of tenant type.

Accept agreement, and the demo tenant completly populated with users will be provisonised.

Now you should under My Environments get a box like this. Open to see your demo tenant username and password.

Log in to Office 365 Admin Portal and confirm that your tenant is now created and populated.

Now we are going to create a demo VM. Go back to My Environments and select Create a Virtual Machine. You can choose to create a Tenant-joined or Standalone VM. I you choose Tenant Joined, you get the option to create a Windows 10 Pro VM. If Standalone VM is selected, you get the option to choose from Windows 10 Pro and Windows Server 2016.

We create a Tenant Joined VM. You need a Azure subscription. I created a trial subscription that gave me 200$ in credits for 30 days.  Enter subscription ID and press Grant Access.

Press Create a Virtual Machine. Create a pin code.

If you now go back to My Environments, you should see a computer icon on your demo tenant.

Open it, and you should now see a Connect button, username and password for that VM.

When Connect is pressed, a RDP file is downloaded.
Open it and connect.

Log in with your VMs username and password.

Remember to shut down the VM before disconnecting, as this uses from your Azure credits. Remember that it still consumes credits when powered down. Not that much, but a bit.

You can deleted the VM from demos.microsoft.com, but you cant boot it if its powered down. To power it on, you need to go to the Azure Portal.

Thats it. You now have a easy to use demo environment. It even fill Teams with channels and content.

It is required to be a registered Microsoft partner to get access.