Is "Free Trial" licence available only once?

[RizC1E]

Hello Fabric community!

I'm trying to complete the Ignite 2024 Challenge for MS Fabric, but unfortunately, I used up my free trial licence last year. I read on this page for "End a Fabric Trial" that "Microsoft limits the number of trial capacities available per tenant". Is that limit just one? I'm wondering what I can do to get another trial licence so that I can complete the labs in the challenge modules.

[RizC1E]

Hello @uzuntasgokberk and @v-huijiey-msft . Thank you kindly for your comments and additional suggestions. 

It would seem that my trial has indeed been extended, as the "You have 0 days left" message no longer appears. At the top it shows that I have 59 days left as of today.

Yang, thanks for your suggestion about marking the post as answered, but I can't seem to be able to find where on this page I can do this? Can you point it out please?

[v-huijiey-msft]

Hi @RizC1E ,

Thanks for the reply from uzuntasgokberk .

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear that your previous Fabric trial is still active and that you're making progress on the challenge.

It looks like you have found a solution. Could you please mark this useful post as “Answered”?

This will help others in the community to easily find a solution if they are experiencing the same problem as you.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

[uzuntasgokberk · Accepted solution]

Hello @RizC1E ,

Normaly free fabric licence has 60 day. But when almost, end of the reach of free fabric licence, it can be asked would you like to buy fabric or extend fabric licence. You can choose what is suitable for you. Assume that you have no free licence, you can create another developer user and to get another free licence for your new user.

Best Regards,
Gökberk Uzuntaş

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[RizC1E]

So here's an update. For some reason, my Fabric trial from last year was still active, and my single Workspace was still there, along with my Lakehouses. To get going on the challenge, I just started created a new Lakehouse here and started going through the modules. 

In the second module in the collection, the very last section before cleanup is to create a PowerBI report. But upon clicking on "New report", instead of being presented with the report designer, I got a pop-up dialog asking me to buy a license, or "Try free". When I clicked "Try free", another dialog box popped up offering to extend the trial for another 60 days. Then the report designer opened up.

I'll post another reply to let folks know if indeed the Fabric trial was extended.