fabric trial and power BI free service

[xangetsu21]

i had been using only the free powerbi license to publish a report and update it on regular interval manually. it gives me 60 days trial period and i can reset the trial period to another 60 days before the trial expires when its less than one week left. but today mistakenly i clicked maybe alert or something that automatically started the microsoft fabric trial without asking for confirmation. and now my trial is reset to 59 days which had like 41 days of free power bi trial remaining and its now fabric trial. But now i am afraid that i cant reset the fabric trial before it expires as i dont have any subscription of azure or any microsoft service. my question is that when the fabric trial expires  in 59 days can i use the power bi free license or not? or if i can cancel the fabric trial somehow and go back to the previous power bi free license. i dont need the fabric service nor i can pay for it i only need the simple power bi free license just to publish the changes to the report i have.

[v-sathmakuri]

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[rohit1991]

Hi @xangetsu21

When your Microsoft Fabric (or Power BI) trial ends, your account automatically reverts to the Fabric Free (formerly Power BI Free) license. This means you’ll lose access to any Pro or Premium features that were part of the trial. 

What you can do:

• You’ll still be able to create and publish reports to My Workspace, and access your personal content.

• However, features like sharing reports with others, using workspaces (other than My Workspace), subscriptions, deployment pipelines, and other collaboration or premium tools will no longer be available.

• Any content created under Pro features may become inaccessible to others unless you upgrade your license.

• Microsoft does not charge you automatically once the trial ends upgrading is completely optional and needs to be done manually.

If you plan to share or collaborate on reports, you’ll likely need to upgrade to Power BI Pro, Premium Per User, or consider Fabric capacity-based licensing depending on your use case.

[xangetsu21]

but when i was on free power bi trial, i was sharing a report with a user on my microsoft organization who has a pro license that he needed to access the report. and i need to be able to share the report with this person. cant i do that without buying pro or premium?

[v-sathmakuri]

Hi @xangetsu21 ,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

Once the Microsoft Fabric trial expires:

Your account will automatically revert to the Power BI Free license.

You will lose access to Pro features, including,

• Publishing reports to shared workspaces (i.e., workspaces other than My Workspace).
• Sharing reports with others.
• Scheduled refresh for datasets in shared workspaces.
• Accessing content in shared workspaces, unless you or the workspace is licensed with Power BI Pro or Premium.

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[hnguy71]

I believe you should still be able to do so. Alternatively, you can always create a new profile / account

[xangetsu21]

yes i can still do so but the fabric trial started on the admin account which i use. i am worried that now if when the fabric trial expires and it expires without providing me any option to go back to the power bi free license then i might lose the power bi free license altogether and i wont be able to activate any power bi trial on this account or any new account.

[tharunkumarRTK]

 Check out this article to know more details about fabric free licenses 

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/fabric-trial

  I assuming you are using a shcool account or work account. I am assuming you had Power BI Pro free trail period license. Since you accidentally opted for fabric trail license, after 60 days Microsoft may or may not allow you to extend your fabric trail license. Similarly they may or may not allow you to get pro trail license again. In my understanding its all depends on the acitivites that you are performing and their policies.

  My suggestion to you would be, continue using your fabric trail license for 60 days and then see if you can renew it. If not then buy a Power BI pro user license which costs 10$ per user per month ( it would be increased to 14$ soon). And when you are using fabric trail license, do not create any fabric artifact, or use premium feature of Power BI other wise you might end up loosing your work or end up buing fabric capacity. 

  OR

  If you do not require pro license and if you can live with Microsoft Fabric/Power BI free license then 

  Put all your Power BI content in your "My workspace" (personal workspace). And make sure you are not sharing your content or collaborating with your team for development activities. This way you dont need to buy any license and free user license would suffice.

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[xangetsu21]

yes you assumed correct its a school account and i was using power bi free trial. and all my reports are already in my workspace but the thing is that even with that free trial i was using, i've been already sharing a report with one of the users in the same school account who has a pro license. so do you think i would lose this feature and wont be able to share the report with him anymore even though the report is in my workspace and he has a pro license? he doesn't need permission to edit the report he just needs to be able to view the report