End of Microsoft Fabric Trial

[franckt-Paris]

Dear members and admins

Initialy, I wanted to discover Microsoft Power BI.

So I did download the 'free' Desktop version.

And step by step, learning more and more, I did suscribe for a free Fabric trial which unfortunately cease in few days.

I'm a 'non profesional' user.

And sadly, I can't pay for any subscription plan.

Sadly... because even if I did learn a lot those last 2 months, I still have a lot to learn

And I would like to thank the Microsoft Learning website, with all the documentation and the free courses to follow.

I did successfully complete all modules in the Microsoft Learn Challenge | Ignite Edition: Fabric Challenge.
And may be I'll get a free voucher for the DP-600 exam.

I don't know if I'll be elected for the free voucher but it's quite possible I get the mail about it while my Free Microsoft Fabric trial has ended.

My question is to know what happens when the free trial did end.
I already know that all the workspaces created won't be accessible and deleted.

I have 3 questions :

1) What about my user account and profile ?

I'll still be able to access to my account ?

2) To complete almost all the exercises, I needed a Microsoft Fabric Licence...

That means that all the training courses, achievements etc... done to date (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/francktejera-3829/) will be useless ? And if my user account is deleted, will I also loose access to those pages or there is a way to record all the work done, badges completed ?

3) I do imagine that using another mail address can allow me to get a new 60 free day trial... but there won't be any posibility to link my closed account with the new one, in order to follow my education to all those fantastic Microsoft Tools.

Sincerely yours

Franck (from Paris - France)

PS : I do really expect to get answers and may be solution (ie a way to get a new free period with the same account). I'm currently looking for a job and learning to master these tools is very important and a real asset to add to my curriculum.

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @franckt-Paris,

#1, Your account is still can be used normally. 

What happens to my data and access when my Microsoft 365 for business subscription ends? | Microsoft...

#2, These contents that not required addition license and the size not exceed the free license limits will be stay in the your account storage, and these not match contents will follow the lifecycle policy and fininally be removed.

Subscription lifecycle states - Partner Center | Microsoft Learn

Optimize costs by automatically managing the data lifecycle - Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Learn

Notice: PBI is O365 subscription and fabric capacity is on Azure.

#3, I think sign up new account should not help for your scenario except the new account is hosted in the same organization of the previous account. (you can use new account to assign capacity and take the owner of the old contents)

In my opinion, I'd like to suggest you to sign up O365 trial for test, it will give you a long time trial and some free credit on Azure. Then you can registrat new account and use these same organization account ot test.

Sign up for Power BI with a new Microsoft 365 trial - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng