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Setting up a free Personal Power BI Account

Do you want to try out the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com) or share your portfolio of reports with potential new employers?

If you have a PowerBI.com account then you can use the Publish to Web option to share your reports, but signing up for Power BI requires a “work” account.

I’d previously blogged here about using the rolling Developer Trial but that has been suspended and now requires a paid Visual Studio subscription.

These are the 3 ways I’m aware of now:

1. Buy a cheap domain via from https://www.uk2.net/ or similar domain provider and then use the email account of that domain to sign up

2.Create a free 365 E3 trial (requires a credit card) and then sign in to Power BI  with the new email.  According to this Microsoft Learn Article your Power BI trial will continue once you cancel your 365 trial. 
Cancel via https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?#/subscriptions

3. Sign up for a free azure portal (requires a credit card) via  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free and during this process create a free xyz.microsoft.com account – then create a new user on this tenant and sign in via Power BI Sign in. 

Publish To Web

Once you’ve signed up to PowerBI.com you’ll need to go to the Power BI admin portal and enable publish to web

Then you can go to any report in My Workspace and click File – Embed – Publish to Web to share you report for free to the world.  This process is unsecure so anyone can potentially see it.

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Microsoft MVP | Author | Speaker | Power BI & Excel Developer & Instructor | Power Query and XLOOKUP evangelist | Click on my picture to see the Access Analytic YouTube channel

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  1. Can you give some additional details on option 3? I have created an Azure account with my personal gmail, but I’m not sure what you mean by creating a free microsoft account on it:

    3. Sign up for a free azure portal (requires a credit card) via https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free and during this process create a free xyz.microsoft.com account – then create a new user on this tenant and sign in via Power BI Sign in.

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    1. Sorry, this ended up in my blocked bin. When you sign up it should ask you to sign in to your account. At that point click I don’t have one – create one. You can then use that .onmicrosoft.com address to create a an account on PowerBI.com

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