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Getting a Power BI Pro License
Hello v-shex-msft,
After several attemps to get a Power BI Pro License I finally did it. This is what I did.
1- I contacted the Microsoft customer service and I exposed my issue and then I was directed to the sales department
2- There I explained to the sales team that I wanted to get a License and that I wasn't able to get one due to my lack of an organization/school email account.
3- They helped me by creating a username that was able to sign up to get the Power BI license (AT firm'sname.onmicrosoft.com)
4- with my new user name I was able to buy the license and now I'm getting all the benefits.
Thanks for your suggestion I hope my experience helps other people.
I know that they used to support getting Power BI Pro without an Office 365 tenant and this would end up creating what was called a "shadow tenant" behind the scenes. So, that may still work and you could sign up using something like an outlook.com address perhaps. If not, maybe just go out and stand up a new tenant with an Exchange Online Plan 1 license ($4/month):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/compare-microsoft-exchange-online-plans
Or an F1 license, also $4/month.