Methods to Renew Microsoft 365 Developer E5 Subscription

Microsoft 365 Developer subscription is good for 90 days and is renewable based on valid developer activity. If you're using your subscription for development, it will be renewed every 3 months and will last indefinitely. 

Check Expiration Date

You can find the expiration date, along with your subscription name, on your Microsoft 365 Developer Program dashboard. (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/profile) 

Check your Microsoft 365 Developer Program subscription using your original account (a personal account: such as [email protected]), not account with onmicrosoft.com domain, such as admin@<Your Site>.onmicrosoft.com. 

You can check your Microsoft 365 E5 subscription from this link: https://portal.office.com/account/?ref=MeControl#subscriptions

For subscription status, check this page: https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home?source=applauncher#/subscriptions

Create Apps Using Templates

One suggestions from Reddit:

• Deploy LookBook templates on SharePoint
• Setup Power Automate flow based on ready template
• Setup Power Apps based on ready template
• Deploy Power BI template from galler

http://office365atwork.com/ gives following steps to renew your subscription every quarter, which will gives you enough development activities on your subscription:

• Deploy at least one SharePoint template using Microsoft Lookbook.
• Create a team in Microsoft Teams.
• Publish 3 Power Apps applications using available templates.
• Publish 3 Power Automate flows using available templates.

1. Lookbook Template

Step1: Visit Microsoft lookbook tempalte website, https://lookbook.microsoft.com/#templates, find the template suits your need, and add it to your tenant.

Step 2: Provide site title and you can keep others as default, click Provision button then wait a couple of minutes, your sharepoint website will be provisioned. 

2. Create a team in teams

3. Publish Power Apps using available templates

4. Publish Power Automation Flows using available templates

5. Publish Power BI from available templates

Create OneDrive Index App

There are many ways to do this:

• Using Heroku: OneManager - Deploy a free OneDrive List App using Heroku and Cloudflare
• Using Cloudflare workers: Fast OneDrive Index - A Serverless OneDrive Index Setup
• Using your own VPS (Php + Web Service)
• Using Free Web+Php hosting service : 000webhost Profreehost

E5 Renew Program

Github project: https://github.com/luoye663/e5

Author's post: https://qyi.io/archives/687.html or Other person's post: https://www.muchunwang.me/?p=179

Auto Renew Site: https://e5.qyi.io/

Using Github Action to Renew

Github project: https://github.com/malaohu/AutoApiSecret

From Github page, you will find all steps you will need. One post about this: https://51.ruyo.net/15646.html

I have not got a chance to verify this since I already used other methods mentioned above to renew my E5 subscription. 

Using MS365 E5 Renew Plus   

Microsoft 365 E5 Renew Plus is a E5 Sub Renew Software By SundayRX.

• Client version: https://e5renew.com/
• Web version: Renew X

References

• Microsoft 365 Developer Program FAQ
• Add Your Own Domain into Free Microsoft 365 E5 Subscription
• MS 365 E5 Advanced Usage: Renew Subscription, One Drive Upgrade to 5T & Create Catch All Exchange Mail Rule