Fabric 60 days trial but no access to items

[plshlp]

Hello,
I've spent most of the day trying to get access to Fabric Items, with a new tenant and trial.

Trial Status: 59 days left, users can create Fabric items: Enabled for the entire organization.

I've tried with several new tenants,  and my developer account and I always get the same message:

"To create a Lakehouse/Notebook/Spark Job Definition/data warehouse/etc, you need a free Microsoft Fabric trial capacity. Unfortunately, your Microsoft tenant has reached the maximum number of available free trial capacities."

I don't understand why I would the message "..reached the maximum number of available free trial capacities" when I'm just getting started.
Is there something, I'm overlooking?

Thank you

[Bashisero]

I'm going through the same problem, I started a Microsoft Learn course but I can't create anything, I set up the tenant configuration as the documentation said but nothing happens and when I go to "capacity settings" everything is empty even though I have already activated the free trial.
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[cheresier]

Chiming in to say that I am in an exact same situation.
Enabled trial:

But when I go to create any of the Fabric objects (lakehouse, pipeline, warehouse), I get the following message:

I tried several different tenants, all of them never used Fabric before, and the behavior is exactly the same.

Creating a new workspace, the Trial option is grayed out:

Looking at capacity settings of the default workspace ("My workspace"), it is grayed out there as well:

In https://portal.office.com/account, I see the following license being assigned:

Could it be that the free trial license created according to the instructions provided at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/fabric-trial no longer includes all of Fabric features, and is now only limited to those three products (Power BI, Exchange Foundation, Purview Discovery)?

[plshlp]

Same experience.  I created another demo tenant, but unfortunately, I received the same message.  I tried with and without the pro license. Something peculiar is going on with the trial.

Very frustrating!

[ibarrau]

Interesting. I didn't test it exactly with a free user, I have pro. It probably will only create content with a PRO account like Premium. Free can view, but pro are the users that can create. I guess Fabric works like that too. You might need a pro trial to test it. I'll try reading more docs but I don't remember seeing an specification for that.

I hope that make sense

[cheresier]

Thank you for looking into it! Regarding this bit though: "You might need a pro trial to test it."

It seems that my workspace is set to Pro license (see the screenshot in my previous message). Is that not what you mean?

[ibarrau]

Hi. I mean the user logged should have pro. If you check your first picture it says Free Account under "License type". The workspace is pro, but the user logged it isn't.

@plshlp  if you have tested this scenario and still not working, I'm not sure what's going on in there. Maybe we should recap the docs to check if the Fabric Trial can be tested by a free user or pro trial.

I hope that helps,

[ibarrau]

Hi. That's weird. Assuming you have enabled the creation of fabric items for the whole organization at tenant settings. If you already created one (you mention you can see the "59 days left"), you just need to assign the capacity to a workspace to let the pro users members in the workspace create fabric items. 

You can check the considerations of this doc just in case you are missing something: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/fabric-trial#considerations-and-limitations

I hope that helps,

[Anonymous]

Looks like MS doesn't want developers to use up trial capacity during the holidays.

Good time to introduce a bug and put people off trial.

[gdas3]

Hi All,

One of my colligue too facing same issue created two days ago.

Although my old Trial version is working fine created around 1 month ago.

So I compared between the two Trail version old (mine) and new one (my colligue's)  I found following points missing in new , due to which colligue could not create lake-house or perform any other operation.

1. By default when we create a new workspace in it will automatically configure to Trial one  but in new version Trial option  got  greyed out and Pro got selected by default and we could not configure  it to Trial one from pro

      Find my old trial version which is working  - by default Trial option selected :

Find New trial version (Of my colligue) which is not working – Trial option got greyed out and default got selected to Pro which I could not change even to Trial .

1. Due to point no 1 Capacity setting which is showing allotted capacity in old trial is showing blank in new trial

Old Trial  showing Capacity allotted :

New  Trial  showing Capacity Blank under Trial Tab :

I tried all option but could not succed .

[RaTheMigty]

Landed on the same problem. Creating everything step by step as guided on microsoft learn. Trying to test Fabric with developer free 60 day trail. But I have the same problem. Trial goes but no option to create an item or trial workspace.