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- [Instructor] 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. 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 email 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 email. But here's the executive summary. There's a requirement here that you must enter a work or organizational email address .com, .edu, dot your company's name and my instance kinetico.info, not Gmail, not live.com, not an email address from your internet provider, even if that's the type of email address your organization uses. So I'm going to enter what is clearly not an organizational email address and click submit. And when I do, I'm taken to the signup page, but I'm told this looks like a personal email address. Enter your work email address so we can connect you with others in your company. And that's true even if you are 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 email address? What if you are between organizational email addresses? In that case, there is a workaround. You can use your personal email address, your non organizational email address to get a trial subscription to Microsoft 365, and then use that account, which will have an on microsoft.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 want to 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 searching 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 email. Each of them can be used to sign up for Power BI. So after I come back here and sign in with a work email address like this one, which is my email 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 email, 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 an 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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