MS Developer Registration - Sandbox Subscription - Registration Closed

PowerDeveloped,

We're excited that you will be joining us for the Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack!  The M365 Developer Program has undergone recent updates that now require a paid Visual Studio subscription in order to enable Sandbox features.

However, I have confirmed a workaround can be achieved by following steps here: Sign up for Power BI with a new Microsoft 365 Trial - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Note: This will require providing a payment method and will enable recurring billing after 30 days (which can be disabled with additional steps).  This will be mentioned during the registration process:

Upon activation, you can disable the recurring billing manually by logging into https://admin.microsoft.com/ with the newly created organizational account, then navigate to Billing => Your Products and select the 3 dots next to the newly created Office 365 subscription.  From there you can turn off recurring billing as shown:

At this point you should now be able to proceed with activating the Fabric Trial by navigating to https://app.fabric.microsoft.com, logging in with the newly created organization account, then selecting "Start Trial" by selecting the account manager icon in the upper-right of the Power BI / Fabric UI.