Support Needed - Disassociated Xamarin account still thinks it is associated - xamarin

I have an account that was associated with another business, but has been disassociated. I have recently purchased Visual Studio Enterprise w/MSDN, and I am unable to redeem the Xamarin benefit because it tells me that my account is still associated with the previous business one.
I have verified that in the business account, my account is no longer associated and the seat it as using is not available (although the subscription has expired).
Can someone from Xamarin please help me correct this condition, I have been round and round with both microsoft telling me I need to contact Xamarin and Xamarin only pointing me back to microsoft.

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I going to login xamarin account in VS 2017
what is this an error?
At this time it is generally no longer necessary to use the old Xamarin account login, so it is recommended to move away from that old login mechanism as soon as you can.
If you are attempting to log in to use the Xamarin Component Store, note that it is recommended to migrate to corresponding NuGet packages at this time: https://blog.xamarin.com/hello-nuget-new-home-xamarin-components/.
If you are logging in to use Xamarin features, note that starting with the Xamarin versions released in March 2016, you no longer need to log in to a Xamarin account to use Xamarin features. Visual Studio will automatically provide Xamarin features based on your Visual Studio subscription level.
If you have a special case where those 2 pieces of information don't resolve the issue, you can reach out via a support incident for further assistance.

How does one associate Visual Studio subscriptions with a company Azure subscription?

I have a Visual Studio subscription.
I'm trying to implement Application Insights in a Web API application in Visual Studio.
The wizard is trying to associate AI with my Visual Studio subscription. Rather, I want to integrate with my company's Azure subscription.
So, how is this done? Do I have to contact the Azure admin and add me to Azure? I have seen responses like "add you as a co-administrator". This is pretty dumb, when you're a developer.
Our company Azure subscription has Active Directory integration. So what. How do I register with the company Azure subscription that I want to implement services as a developer in the company??
Can someone provide some insight or references? The documentation is ponderous on this point.
If I understand your question correctly, you need to obtain an Instrumentation Key from a resource that is created in your company's Azure portal. Then, you can install application insights in your project and use that instrumentation key.
If, on the other hand you are asking why you have to be a co-administrator then you are correct. This was the case for a while but not anymore.
Account admin can now assign new users to specific resource groups. Each resource group can contain one or multiple resources. Read more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/role-based-access-control-configure

Visual Studio 2013 unable to sign in for license

After Update 4 I am experiencing the following error message:
I am not even able to sign in to my Microsoft account but it was working ok before the update. Please let me know what I have to do to get it working again.
Licensing / Purchase
I signed into the IDE, but it’s still telling me that the trial will expire. What’s going on? The odds are that the account you signed
in with doesn’t have an MSDN subscription or Visual Studio Online
subscription associated with it. Sign in with an account that does and
the license should be issued automatically or apply a product key
Community Edition is telling me my trial has expired. Do I have to pay for Community edition? No, Community edition is free to use. We
use the same infrastructure that allows you to unlock VS w/ an online
subscription to manage the requirement of signing into Community
edition so some of our strings overlap cross these scenarios. Trial
here means the period you can use the community edition before you
must sign in to fully unlock the IDE.
Source
Emphasis is mine. Does your account have a MSDN or Visual Studio Online subscription?
The most common cause is having the system clock out-of-date. Make sure your date and time are set correctly, and sync them online if you have to. This should fix your issue.

how to reset Xamarin license

I am using Xamarin with Visual Studio 2015.
A few days ago I upgraded my Xamarin-account from the standard/free license to a trial-business license, however since then I decided that I don't need the business license. So now I want to return my account to the normal/free version/license (because the apps built with the trial-business-license only work for 24 hours).
However it is not clear to me at all how to reset the license of my Xamarin-account.
I guess a solution would be to make a new Xamarin-account, however this seems a unsatisfactory solution to me.
Just log out of your Xamarin Account and you should automatically be using the community edition.
If you need your Xamarin account to get components from the component store and this trial stuff is giving you problems. I advise you to contact Xamarin and have them help you clear out your issues.
Make sure that your Visual Studio is up to date.

Can't sign in to Azure to publish with Visual Studio 2013

I'm trying to test Azure by publishing a basic web app. After signing in to Azure from Visual Studio, I'm met with the following message:
Sorry but we didn't find any Windows Azure subscriptions associated with your account.
You can sign in with a different account or sign up for a Windows Azure subscription.
I use Windows 8 with an attached ecu account, and have signed up to a trial Azure account under the same credentials (which I can log in to normally fine).
Results[1] from a similar problem suggest the accounts are mixed up, and to contact an admin with the ticketing system to rectify[2]. However selecting "Having issues with sign in or signing up for an account?" links me to a page, which quickly redirects me to another broken page and I am unable to proceed.
What is the best course in action in either:
publishing the app to Azure
contacting Microsoft about fixing my trial Azure account
Thank you
[1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1b61b9a9-e763-4893-acc1-aa60a7d0b03d/msdn-subscriition-free-access-to-windows-azure-cannot-setup-account?forum=windowsazurepurchasing
[2] http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
Found the answer on social.technet.microsoft.com
I found this article first, so I hope this helps others that find this before the MS article.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/40ac7a3d-12f0-47c5-9cee-97dd5867ddf0/unable-to-sign-in-when-trying-to-publish-web-role-to-azure?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
I know this is an old thread, but I was recently having a problem with visual studio 2015 where I could not sign in to Azure. I came across this SO entry. It was not helpful, but I eventually did find the answer.
The answer was to repair Visual Studio. It takes awhile to run but once it finished I was back in business with Azure in Visual Studio.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa983433%28v=vs.90%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

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