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Advocate IFabric Trial not working
Thank you for the feedback. There can be many reasons why a Fabric trial capacity does not start which is why we recommend working with support. You do NOT need a paid license to get support for Fabric trial capacities. You can reach support from the '?' help menu or Microsoft Fabric Support and Status | Microsoft Fabric.
Common reasons why a Fabric trial capacity cannot be started include
- Fabric or Power BI Admin disabled trial on their tenant using Help and support admin settings - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
- the limit of trial capacities for the tenant has been reached and the user should share existing trial capacities with other users as per Fabric trial capacity - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
There is additional information in Fabric trial capacity - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn.
Now given the timing of this thread I suspect what many of you have been experiencing is the fact that we have stopped supporting Fabric trial capacities on newly created Entra and M365 tenants which many users have been used to spinning up for testing and learning. Unfortunately the ease of creating these tenants and these trial capacities led to significant abuse and we are unable to support further trial capacities on this class of tenant. We recommend all users initiate their Fabric trial capacities on the tenants associated with their work or school organization and NOT spin-up new tenants. Trial capacities continue to be available on longstanding tenants where there is material multi-product usage of Microsoft products. If you feel your case is exceptional please work with support.
Advocate Irubayatyasmin thanks for reponding. the answer is NO as that option is greyed out. see the screenshots
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Community ChampionWithout assigning the trial capacity to a workspace, you won't be able to create fabric items.
1. Can you show me the screenshot of your top right section, where the user photo email is shown? I want to see the license type for your user. Just to make sure.
2. Anyone in your organization has the trial license? If yes, ask them to assign the trial capacity to the workspace. This way you should be able to create a fabric items.
- mrinmoygupta1
Below are some screenshots. I'm the only one requesting a trial so far.
- pallavi_r
Super User
Hi mrinmoygupta1 ,
As rubayatyasmin has mentioned in his response, did you start fabric trial capacity. From your screenshot it seems, you have not yet initiated fabric trial capacity, otherwise it would not be showing the option to 'Start Fabric Trial Capacity'. It might have happened that Power BI free trial is activated.
So, the next step is you can go ahead and click on start fabric trial capacity as shown in below screenshot and please let us know if that works for you.
Thanks,
Pallavi
- mrinmoygupta1
Hi Pallavi
See the error I'm getting is exactly at this point. As soon as I click on "Start Fabric Trial Capacity" it comes back with error. Please see below screenshots
1. Step-1: I click on "Start Fabric Trial Capacity"
Step-2: Clcik on "Activate" button
It says your "Power BI Trial has started". Below it says "We cannot assign you a free Microsoft Fabric trial capacity due to an error. Learn more"
Do I need to deactivate "Power BI" trial and then activate "Fabric Trial"? If so please can you guide me through the right steps?
Thanks for helping out.
- rubayatyasmin
Did you try start fabric trial capacity? This should work. If not, then ask your colleague who has fabric trial license to create a workspace and set the license to fabric trial.
- mrinmoygupta1
When I try starting fabric trial I get below message. see below screenshots of the steps I''m following. Also I run a small company and there is no other colleague requiring fabric 😞
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