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Hello everyone. I have a Mac laptop and therefore cannot use Power BI without a virtual machine. I tried downloading Azure (free) VM, and I was successful in downloading the tool, but any time I try to run the Instance I get an error message. Has anyone else run into this issue?

 

Also, I'm interested in taking Power BI courses through Udemy. Are there any suggestions? Thanks!

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vanessafvg
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what error are you getting?

 

sqlbi is one of the best for the dax courses and data modelling  www.sqlbi.com

datacamp is apparently good too for more general overall,   but its probably similar to udemy





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Anonymous
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My apologies. I downloaded AWS, not Azure. I created a Root user profile because I believe that was the free version. The message says: Failed to connect to your instance. Error establishing SSH connection to your instance. Try again later. 

 

It's kind of annoying because I followed the setup instructions (at least I think I did), but I continue to get the same message. Thank you for responding to my question.

what reference have you used to do this installation, can you share it?





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Anonymous
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I'm not sure I understand your question. What do you mean when you say reference? This is the website I used: Learn How to Create and Deploy a Virtual Machine on AWS | Middleware, but I had to remove the link because I couldn't send this message. I got flagged: "Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body."

 

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