Windows Store for Education - signup fails?

[gshaw]

So now we're moving forward into our next stage of deploying some test Windows 10 devices to users I wanted to get a grip on the Store. Blocking it completely seems to be getting more of a pain in each release and we do actually need some apps from there so I much prefer to use the "Windows Store for Business" \ "Windows Store for Education" that should give us something more controlled and appropriate.

 

So I find this documentation page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-store/sign-up-windows-store-for-business

 

Sounds nice and simple so I go to...

 

https://educationstore.microsoft.com/en-gb/store

 

Try and sign in with the tenant admin account and all I get is a white spinning loading page that eventually crashes the browser. Interestingly at the bottom of the window I can see something along the lines of bsxmaintenancenotifyprod.blob.core.windows.net which suggests there's a technical issue somewhere at MS end?

 

Has anyone managed to sign up for this (or did you use the Store for Business instead) and if so did it work correctly?