{"id":96962,"date":"2023-05-24T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=96962"},"modified":"2024-09-03T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:15:19","slug":"microsoft-fabric-enabling-your-free-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/microsoft-fabric-enabling-your-free-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Fabric: Enabling your Free Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the great announcement of Microsoft Fabric this week, it&#8217;s time to get a trial and start playing with this great product.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Fabric is a very broad product, so it requires some additional configuration for the start of a trial.<\/p>\n<h2>Configuring the Tenant<\/h2>\n<p>By default, the Power BI tenants are disable for Microsoft Fabric. All tenants will be automatically enabled on July 1st.<\/p>\n<p>This is configured this way to allow tenant administrators to adapt themselves to the new technology. Did you imagine how would it be if a lot of lakehouses start to appear everywhere in the company?<\/p>\n<p>On the Power BI configuration settings in the portal, tenant admins can change this configuration. The first step is to decide if they want to follow Microsoft default configuration or not.<\/p>\n<p>As you may notice on the image below, this configuration is a simple checkbox called <em>\u201cAccept Microsoft\u2019s default selection (Off for the entire organization)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1019\" height=\"577\" class=\"wp-image-96963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/interface-grafica-do-usuario-texto-aplicativo-e-5.png\" alt=\"Interface gr\u00e1fica do usu\u00e1rio, Texto, Aplicativo, Email\n\nDescri\u00e7\u00e3o gerada automaticamente\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The administrators may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uncheck the checkbox in order to not have Microsoft Fabric automatically turned on in July 1st. They want more time to plan for it.<\/li>\n<li>Uncheck the checkbox in order to immediately enable Microsoft Fabric.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Controlling who Access Microsoft Fabric<\/h2>\n<p>Once the tenant administrator decides to enable Microsoft Fabric, they can decide who will have access to it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The entire company<\/li>\n<li>Only some groups of users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides that, they also can create exclusions, defining groups who should never have access to Microsoft Fabric features.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"737\" class=\"wp-image-96964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/word-image-96962-2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Enabling your account<\/h2>\n<p>Once the tenant is enabled, it&#8217;s time to enable your account. Checking your account in Power BI portal, you may find a button called Start Trial. This button will allow us to start a Microsoft Fabric trial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"306\" class=\"wp-image-96965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/interface-grafica-do-usuario-texto-aplicativo-c-1.png\" alt=\"Interface gr\u00e1fica do usu\u00e1rio, Texto, Aplicativo, chat ou mensagem de texto\n\nDescri\u00e7\u00e3o gerada automaticamente\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"154\" class=\"wp-image-96966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/interface-grafica-do-usuario-texto-aplicativo-d-4.png\" alt=\"Interface gr\u00e1fica do usu\u00e1rio, Texto, Aplicativo\n\nDescri\u00e7\u00e3o gerada automaticamente\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to my tests, multiple trials don&#8217;t work together. If you already have a trial of PPU, the trial for Microsoft Fabric will not be available for you.<\/p>\n<p>The possible combinations here are huge. Provide your feedback on the comments if you discover more details.<\/p>\n<h2>Creating a Workspace<\/h2>\n<p>Once you enabled the Microsoft Fabric trial, you need to create a workspace enabled for Microsoft Fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Fabric uses Premium per Capacity. However, for the trial, you have a special trial option in the advanced configurations of a workspace.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is providing to you a special capacity to test the features of Microsoft Fabric.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"793\" class=\"wp-image-96967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/interface-grafica-do-usuario-texto-aplicativo-e-6.png\" alt=\"Interface gr\u00e1fica do usu\u00e1rio, Texto, Aplicativo, Email\n\nDescri\u00e7\u00e3o gerada automaticamente\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s Time to Start<\/h2>\n<p>Once Microsoft Fabric is enabled and the workspace is created, you can use the Experience menu to start from the Experience you prefer to create a lakehouse or data warehouse<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"286\" class=\"wp-image-96968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/interface-grafica-do-usuario-aplicativo-word-de-1.png\" alt=\"Interface gr\u00e1fica do usu\u00e1rio, Aplicativo, Word\n\nDescri\u00e7\u00e3o gerada automaticamente\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Discover More<\/h2>\n<p>You can check more about Microsoft Fabric on these links:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OwigzO3ssU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/cloud\/azure\/data-intelligence-on-light-speed-microsoft-fabric\/\">Data Intelligence on light speed: Microsoft Fabric<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Data Intelligence on light speed: Microsoft Fabric&#8221; &#8212; Simple Talk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/cloud\/azure\/data-intelligence-on-light-speed-microsoft-fabric\/embed\/#?secret=OMCtKSJuNg#?secret=OwigzO3ssU\" data-secret=\"OwigzO3ssU\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/microsoft-fabric-data-warehouse-ingestion-using-t-sql-and-more\/\">https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/microsoft-fabric-data-warehouse-ingestion-using-t-sql-and-more\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft Fabric depends on Premium per Capacity, but Microsoft enabled a new trial so everyone can test its features. Some additional steps are needed, but they are not so difficult to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the great announcement of Microsoft Fabric this week, it&#8217;s time to get a trial and start playing with this great product. Microsoft Fabric is a very broad product, so it requires some additional configuration for the start of a trial. Configuring the Tenant By default, the Power BI tenants are disable for Microsoft Fabric&#8230;.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,159164,159166],"tags":[123645,158998,158997,101611,124953],"coauthors":[6810],"class_list":["post-96962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-microsoft-fabric","category-powerbi","tag-data-warehouse","tag-lakehouse","tag-microsoft-fabric","tag-power-bi","tag-synapse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96969,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96962\/revisions\/96969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=96962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}