Azure for Students Activation Blocked - Empty School Dropdown & Engage Center Loop

Bilal Faisal 0 Reputation points
2026-08-28T18:50:06.96+00:00

I am trying to activate my Azure for Students benefit, but I am stuck in an endless loop due to bugs on the Microsoft portals.

  1. My GitHub Student Developer Pack is already approved (******@umt.edu.pk).

When I go to the Azure verification page, the "School Name" dropdown is completely empty/broken. It will not load any universities.

Because I bypassed the broken field, the system locked my session with a "You do not have access" error.

I cannot submit a support ticket because all links redirect me to the Engage Center, which blocks me because I don't have an active tenant yet.

Tier 1 consumer support (Case #7107952742) just tells me to call a US 1-800 number, which I cannot do from Pakistan. I need an Azure engineer to manually validate my session and attach the subscription to my account (******@outlook.com).

Error Details:

SessionID: e883b636-57e1-4826-a245-f6bdcc138c05

TimeStampUTC: 8/28/2026 11:42:32 AM

Can someone please send me a secure DM or manually provision the tenant?I am trying to activate my Azure for Students benefit, but I am stuck in an endless loop due to bugs on the Microsoft portals.

My GitHub Student Developer Pack is already approved (******@umt.edu.pk).

When I go to the Azure verification page, the "School Name" dropdown is completely empty/broken. It will not load any universities.

Because I bypassed the broken field, the system locked my session with a "You do not have access" error.

I cannot submit a support ticket because all links redirect me to the Engage Center, which blocks me because I don't have an active tenant yet.

Tier 1 consumer support (Case #7107952742) just tells me to call a US 1-800 number, which I cannot do from Pakistan. I need an Azure engineer to manually validate my session and attach the subscription to my account (******@outlook.com).

Error Details:

SessionID: e883b636-57e1-4826-a245-f6bdcc138c05

TimeStampUTC: 8/28/2026 11:42:32 AM

Can someone please send me a secure DM or manually provision the tenant?

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  1. Bilal Faisal 0 Reputation points
    2026-09-01T07:07:36.18+00:00

    Just following up on this. My Azure for Students verification is still completely blocked by the empty school dropdown bug, and the Engage Center loop prevents me from opening a standard ticket. Can an engineer please review Case #7107952742 or send a secure ticket link?

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