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In this video, I'm going to show you how to sign up for Power BI. If you already are licensed and signed up, just bear with me and hang out while the rest of us do this. We're going to go to either PowerBI.com or PowerBI.Microsoft.com. They both resolve to the same page. There's a Buy Now and a Try Free button here and a Start Free button, but ignore them please. please, what I'd like you to do is click the products link and then slide down to Power BI Pro. That will take you to this page and this try free is a link to sign up for a free subscription to Power BI Pro. So click try free and here you're asked to enter your e-mail so that Microsoft can check and see if you need to create a new account. There's some information below the fine print that talks about using your organization's e-mail, but here's the executive summary. There's a requirement here that you must enter a work or organizational e-mail address, .com, .edu, .your company's name, in my instance, Connecticut.info. Not gmail, not live.com, not an e-mail address from your internet provider, even if if that's the type of e-mail address your organization uses. So I'm going to enter what is clearly not an organizational e-mail address and click submit. And when I do, I'm taken to the signup page, but I'm told this looks like a personal e-mail address. Enter your work e-mail address so we can connect you with others in your company. And that's true even if you're the first person in your company to do this. So you must enter a work address in order to get past this point. What if you don't have an organizational e-mail address? What if you are between organizational e-mail addresses? In that case, there is a workaround. You can use your personal e-mail address, your non-organizational e-mail address, to get a trial subscription to Microsoft 365 and then use that account, which will have an onmicrosoft.com as part of its extension, to sign up for a trial for Power BI. To do that, you can either pause the video and write down this URL, which is the current URL at Microsoft for a Microsoft 365 Business Standard one-month trial. If that moves or you don't wanna keep track of that much, you can also search for the phrase Microsoft 365 Business Standard one-month trial. And even with that, you'll usually have to scroll down a little bit in your search engine in order to find the page that is actually on Microsoft rather than an ad. But if you sign up for this trial, you will have access not just to one or two, but up to 25 user accounts, each with its own e-mail. Each of them can be used to sign up for Power BI. So after I come back here and sign in with a work e-mail address like this one, which is my e-mail address, then I'm going to click Next. Microsoft will check and will note that I'm already a Microsoft customer, that I can sign in, and then I can get Microsoft Power BI with my account. Even though I have a Power BI account at this point, I'm being prompted to log in. So there's some authentication to prove who I am. And when you're all done signing up, which may include creating an account and confirming through your e-mail, then you'll be able to log in. So I'm going to sign in. Here we click Get Started, and we are taken immediately to Power BI. If you already have a license and account for Power BI, you can just log into Office 365, SharePoint, Teams, Admin, click the waffle and choose Power BI. And again, it will load the homepage of the Power BI service.

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