Please note that you have to login to my.VDMA only the first time accessing my.OE-A. Its mandatory to login to my.VDMA to create a connection to the VDMA tenant, where the information of my.OE-A is stored. When the connection to my.VDMA has been successfully established, you can access my.OE-A simply by opening this link.

Your Microsoft account is a combination of your email address (=username) and the password you use to log in to services such as OneDrive, Outlook or MS TEAMS. If you use any of these services in your company, you already have a Microsoft account.

To log in my.VDMA, you usually use the same login data that you use for your existing company Microsoft account. However, the username of your Microsoft account may be different from your company email, e.g. it may consist of a combination of your staff number and company domain (1234@JaneDoe.com).

Please do not use a general company address such as info@companyxy.com for your registration, but your personal email address linked to a Microsoft account. 

For more information on your Microsoft Account login please see the next question “How to get your username for the Office 365 account?”

If you have forgotten your Microsoft account username (email address) or have signed in and received the error message “The Microsoft account does not exist”, please follow the steps below in this order to find your username:

If you already have a myVDMA account
Please write an e-mail to patricia.seizer@oe-a.org and we will create a Microsoft Office account for you at the VDMA cloud. Please note, that this may take some processing time. You will receive a notification by e-mail with your access data as soon as the account is created.

Example of your username: Jane.Doe_company.com@vdma.cloud
The password is an initial password which should be changed with your first login.
If you do not have a my.VDMA account, yet:
Please go briefly through our registration process at https://vdma.org/registration to create an account.

Since the GDPR, stricter conditions and obligations for the processing of personal data came into force. To ensure legally compliant processing of your personal data, VDMA/OE-A decided to use the Microsoft services to handle access to its member areas.  Hence, VDMA/OE-A chose a system that complies with the current security guidelines and legal requirements.

In addition, using Microsoft Teams gives the opportunity to implement new collaboration possibilities.

Your registration is checked in your company network via a service from Microsoft. The VDMA/OE-A has no access to this and thus no access to your data.

Please contact your internal IT department with this error message. VDMA/OE-A does not have access to the Microsoft accounts of its members.

If you use a vdma.cloud account please write an e-mail to patricia.seizer@oe-a.org.

This error message may have various causes. Please send a screenshot of the error message to patricia.seizer@oe-a.org.

This error message is caused by a bug in reading the VDMA tenant address, and occurs usually when also using MS TEAMS within your company. Please open my.OE-A in the web app instead of the desktop app.

This error message usually comes up if you have just registered at my.VDMA and your data has not been processed in the background yet. Please try to access the my.OE-A TEAMS channel at a later time. If you still receive the error message, please contact patricia.seizer@oe-a.org.

This error message may have various causes. Please send a screenshot of the error message to patricia.seizer@oe-a.org.

This error message comes up if you have not yet created an account at my.VDMA. Please follow the steps above in the section “How do I get access to my.OE-A?” or download the step-by-step instruction “Members-Guide-to-myOE-A-registration” above.

Please contact your internal IT department with this error message. VDMA/OE-A does not have access to the Microsoft accounts of its members.

If you use a vdma.cloud account please write an e-mail to patricia.seizer@oe-a.org.

Sometimes Microsoft will not accept your password even if you have followed the password policies. In this case, your password may be on a global list of blocked passwords. Solution: Assign a password until it is accepted. Please note, that VDMA has no influence on password assignment. These are security guidelines from Microsoft.

Password policies:

The following Azure AD password policy requirements apply to all passwords created or changed for login to myVDMA: