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Hello,
I think the following video can help anyone who wants to try Microsoft Fabric by using azure trial:
Fabric cannot be used with 'personal' email account
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I have a non-business email account setup for Azure so I can learn, simple eh?
WHY do I need a 'business' email account to learn Fabric??
Microsoft: WHY do you have to be sooooooooooo annoying????
How do developers 'learn' new tech if you have blockers like this? It's stupid!
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T10:02:22.9566667+00:00 Sure: Create Power BI personal user account and/or create Fabric free trail account
For personal email account: you need an office 365 subscription and then you can't find how to get a free trail (I don't want O365 or to pay for it for Fabric!) and you have to setup payment plan etc....
I just want to learn Fabric/Power BI!
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T12:31:18.6866667+00:00 I have given up!
Fabric support ticket raised and a morning wasted trying to navigate a world of rubbish created by Microsoft.
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Bhomik Takhar 55 Reputation points2024-01-02T18:28:10.7266667+00:00 It's asking still for a business/org email.
My org email doesn't open outside my work pc.
What a demotivating experience, I was starting myself with Azure applied skills but first thing came as a blocker.
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2024-01-02T19:52:09.7033333+00:00 Haha! Demotivating: Yes!
(tried to respond on my iPhone, but guess what: I couldn't on an iPhone and had to comment from a laptop lol)
Consider yourself lucky that you couldn't get an account setup.....
I managed to get an account setup, couldn't link it to my Azure 'personal' email account, closed my Azure 'personal' email account - took ages as you had to delete all the resources etc... jump through hoops and now there's a 3 days wait before it can close....
I created a new onmicrosoft.com account in azure, then created the power bi and fabric 'free trail' account.... Haha! And guess what again??
ERROR!
Half a day wasted before I gave up and created a support ticket... Microsofts response: There's a bug with creating new tenants which the engineers are looking into, the resolution time is unknown....
WTF! :)
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Neha Agrawal 35 Reputation points2024-03-06T18:13:59.82+00:00 Hey, I am unempleyed at this moment and I was doing the self paced Azure data fundamentals course on Microsoft learn. Today when I tried accessing Microsoft Fabric it is not allowing me to login with my personal microsoft account. It is asking for either a work or school email. That's BS.
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Tamas Illes 0 Reputation points2024-03-20T23:44:52.99+00:00 Did you find a solution in the end?
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DataWise 5 Reputation points2024-12-17T16:50:00.9233333+00:00 Hi, I found a solution.
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Johnz Par 0 Reputation points2025-04-17T22:00:35.2533333+00:00 Can you tell us how you made it ??
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Melchicédec NDUWAYO 35 Reputation points2024-04-08T14:50:53.1966667+00:00 -
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Tushar Dwivedi 0 Reputation points2024-06-18T23:38:19.47+00:00 If you have an account in Azure, this link will work. Thank you for sharing. It worked for me.
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Chad You 0 Reputation points2025-02-28T04:49:01.57+00:00 Thanks for sharing! I created a business email using my personal account in Azure following this tutorial.
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T10:46:13.7833333+00:00 Wow, what a pain and annoying Microsoft implementation. Do they still teach UX in uni?
Here's the work around for anyone else struggling to compete with Microsofts bad UX:
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T12:07:36.25+00:00 And now I cannot use the 'Free Trail' as it is greyed out due to tenant issues.... WTAF!
It shouldn't be this stressful creating a FREE TRAIL!!!!
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Rob Thompson 0 Reputation points2025-01-06T02:33:20.2766667+00:00 Youtube video is too old. There isn't a free trail available for Microsoft 365 E5 (no Teams) that has power BI and MS Azure is really different now than what is was 4 years ago and what he is showing isn't the same.
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ANDREW CAREY 5 Reputation points2024-12-06T13:49:26.7766667+00:00 It’s the very first step of trying to create a free Fabric account and work through exercises. https://microsoftlearning.github.io/mslearn-fabric/Instructions/Labs/01-lakehouse.html
This directs user to open the account here:
https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/home?experience=fabric
This website won’t accept a personal email, but requires a work email, which is impossible if you are not presently working. Irony: I was hoping to get this certification and use it to get work.
It’s my first Learn challenge, so IDK whether the lab is required. I do know it is impossible, as-is!
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DataWise 5 Reputation points
2024-12-17T16:36:06.9933333+00:00 If you have a trial (or paid) Azure account, you get an onmicrosoft.com e-mail address for every user profile you make, and it works for Fabric sign-up. See this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHV7jZqc_tEIt includes how to sign up for an Azure account for free, which you can skip if you already have an account.
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DataWise 5 Reputation points
2024-12-17T16:53:55.48+00:00 I see Melchicédec NDUWAYO already posted this answer back when the video came out.
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Johnz Par 0 Reputation points
2025-04-17T22:48:21.25+00:00 thanks , it worked
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Vahid Ghafarpour 23,385 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2023-12-31T02:21:41.07+00:00 Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.
Based on the following article, may I ask which step was blocked and asked for a business email account?https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/fabric-trial
** Please don't forget to close up the thread here by upvoting and accept it as an answer if it is helpful **
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T10:06:44.8233333+00:00 Sure: Create Power BI personal user account and/or create Fabric free trail account
For personal email account: you need an office 365 subscription and then you can't find how to get a free trail (I don't want O365 or to pay for it for Fabric!) and you have to setup payment plan etc....
I just want to learn Fabric/Power BI!
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Me_Learning 125 Reputation points
2023-12-31T10:10:01.18+00:00 Sure: Create Power BI personal user account and/or create Fabric free trail account
For personal email account: you need an office 365 subscription and then you can't find how to get a free trail (I don't want O365 or to pay for it for Fabric!) and you have to setup payment plan etc....
I just want to learn Fabric/Power BI!
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