It is not possible to accept invitation link on Lab entironment

Original Publishing Date:
2020-01-22

Question

There is an attempt to purchase Office 365 subscription with the option Use an existing Microsoft account on the Lab environment.

However, it is not possible to accept invitation link in the Microsoft Online Portal.

Following error message is displayed:

Failed to accept delegated administration offer.

TIP (Test-in-produtcion) Microsoft account is used for provisioning on Lab environment.

What causes this error?

Answer

It is not possible to use TIP Microsoft account to establish reseller relationship due to limitation on Microsoft side.

Please review a Microsoft article which describes the case:

    Integration Sandbox

    The integration sandbox, sometimes referred to as the TIP (test in production) tenant, is a reseller account that you can utilize to test custom integration with the Partner Center APIs. As of December 2017 you cannot utilize the TIP tenant to establish reseller relationships. This is not allowed for numerous reasons, including the fact changes and transactions made will not appear on your invoice for this reseller. If you attempt to establish a relationship with the TIP tenant, or a customer that was created in this environment, you will receive an error stating it failed to accept the delegated administration offer.