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Mrtnkbg

Make it possible to opt out of starting an evaluation of Fabric

Submitted by Advocate I on ‎04-16-2025 11:48 PM

Yesterday I saw an interesting menu option in the Power BI Service that I clicked on in order to see what it was.
Clicking on it triggered the start of an evaluation period of Fabric, no option to opt out/cancel, just a message that informed me of the fact that it started. Now there is a ticker in the top right corner of the Power BI Service that shows me how many days are left of an evaluation that I didn't mean to start, and that might be good to have sometime in the future, but not now.
We are as an company very far from moving to Fabric, and it is therefore not time to make an evaluation of Fabric.

- Please make it possible to opt out of starting a Fabric evaluation.

- Please inform/mark menu options that are Fabric specific so I as a Power BI user can see what is for me/new to me and what is not.

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Mrtnkbg
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎06-23-2025 10:38 PM
Still ticking, and no response.
Mrtnkbg
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎09-01-2025 11:12 PM
Today when opening our Power BI Service, a message shown with a tickbox that had to be checked before clicking Ok, that said something like "The trial period of Fabric is coming to en end in x no. of days. I understand that I may have total data loss (yada yada) if I don't buy Fabric.". How do I know what Microsoft may or may not have presumed should be included in the unwanted trial? As I said in my original post, I did not intentionally start a trial period, I just clicked an icon in the service one day "were there", I presumed that it was a new feature included in Power BI, nothing stated that it wasn't. How on earth can I as a user know that clicking an icon in a service that the company I work for pay for, starts a trial of something that we do not consider buying (yet or ever)? Regardless if nothing will happen to (any of) our data, this is so poor treating of a customer.
Mrtnkbg
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎09-25-2025 12:44 AM
Same reminder again today. Even if I haven't knowingly added "anything Fabric" to our Power BI tender, having a message regarding "possible permanent data loss", and with mandatory tick-box just to get into the (Power BI) tender and keep working is not something you want to happen unknowingly. What might have be included in my work because of this Fabric-trial that I didn't consent to start? Anyone from Microsoft..?
Mrtnkbg
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎12-10-2025 10:57 PM
Microsoft reminded me today that there are 7 days left on the Fabric trial that I never wanted to start. This means that when it is time for us to make the step into Fabric, or evaluate if we should, Microsoft has wasted my possibility to do that via a click on an icon in the Power BI Service portal that did not say clearly that it was a "Fabric feature", neither before nor after "the clicking", and there was certainly no question if I would like to start an evaluation... Sigh.