Why can't I use Microsoft Fabric?

You've heard about all the great things with Microsoft Fabric, but you don't see it in the portal. You only see the Power BI items and no persona switcher. What's going on? Adam shows you to enable Fabric for your tenant.
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[@alt-enter237]

Love this! I learned Power BI by watching all of your videos for a full year--and now I am going to do the same thing with your Fabric videos. Keep being awesome!

[@Phoenixspin]

I'm afraid to talk to my administrator. I'll just suffer in silence. Maybe I can get Adam to ask him to turn it on.

[@GuyInACube]

Oh no! I wish I could do that for everyone 😕 if you wanted to play with the features you could spin up an M365 dev tenant and then take advantage of the fabric trial. Doesn’t help in the long term but at least you could explore and learn it.

[@sousamultisys]

As suggested, just build up your Dev tenant to learn it, then you will have your own data to show and request the new features. If you show confidence your admin will have it approved and set for you

[@geniusinhd1720]

Lmao i have the same thought as of yesterday. I’m not even bothering that guy.

[@JD_JR]

Thank you for the explanation. That makes a lot more sense now. Keep up the great work!

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks for watching 👊

[@CrazySw3de]

I had tried going through the whole process of setting up a trial account, but then it seemed like it automatically assigned me to US Central for my tenant region and I wasn't able to actually test out any of the new features. Really wish they made it a bit easier for individuals to test this out rather than needing to rely on our company to enable it. Support has also been nonexistent from what I can tell.

[@JairoCastellano-k6c]

so do I need a premium license to try it? Otherwise, I don't have Fabric capacity settings. It offers some for purchase but otherwise I cannot go to "delegated tenant settings"

[@theevilnen]

The thing is The Fabric icon is there but I have only two options PowerBI and Data Science. Nothing else. All is enabled in tenant settings. Trial is active (shows 59 days) and I do can create Trial fabric workspace. That's all...

[@LuisRuiz-df7id]

I purchased an F2 capacity, assigned that to the workspace, then purchased a Power BI Pro license and enabled the fabric settings on the admin and Im still not able to see any fabric options, only Power BI regular ones, does anyone know what I can do?

[@justinogarcia3705]

How much will it cost and will It work with powerbi premium per users ?

[@dhawalpmehta]

Hi Adam, 1 QQ what is the use of the disabled checkbox in Tenant setting "Capacity admins can enable/disable". It seems that that Tenant Level control is no more with Tenant Admin with this.

[@joaoluismartins]

Hey guys, Even though being part of the security group and enabling Fabric on my Capacity, I'm still seeing the error pop-up. Ideas? Thanks a lot!

[@workstuff5253]

As a Pro licence organisation, I assume most of the Fabric stuff will be out of our reach without spending on the new licence SKUs. What I am confused about is the new file type. Will this replace the pbix or will it run along side and only be available for those with Fabric capacity? Thanks

[@HxH_1990]

Hey Adam - FYI. On Premium Capacity, I have both "Users can create Fabric items" enabled at both the tenant and capacity levels. Turned these settings on the day of release and the Fabric items were viewable (bottom left icon, etc.). However, something switched off, and even though both of those settings are still enabled, the Fabric items are no longer viewable (no bottom left icon, etc.). Chalked it up to a new release bug, but wondering if you had any insights. Thanks!

[@K_dyub]

I'm having this same issue. Did you find a resolution?

[@AniBanani2020]

No switch icon for me as well. Are you in Central region? That appears to be consistent with this issue from what I have scanned on the interwebs. My precious trial days are ticking down D:

[@HxH_1990]

@@AniBanani2020 yep, that’s it! MSFT support said to wait until July23 for it to be supported.

[@HxH_1990]

@@K_dyub Central region is unsupported as of this moment. MSFT support stated to wait until July23 for the region to be supported.

[@K_dyub]

@ZachCunninghamZC1990 Thanks. That sux about our free trial being used up though.

[@uniQue_XL]

Thanks Adam❤

[@martyc5674]

I’ll just wait till July 1st- our admins don’t seem to understand any of this stuff, if I asked them to switch it on I’d run the risk of losing access to what I already have.

It doesn't work. I can start the trial. I get the diamond on the workspace, but I don't get the switch icon. But the count down is Goin on. For testing I used a private Microsoft account. No issues there it works fine. But it doesn't work on the required company account and I have no idea where to ask for support. BTW, as a developer I have my code under source control. This works fine in a "normal" Lakehouse. But how to put fabric content under source control? It works only for Power BI reports.

[@arispagoropoulos3798]

Hi, I get multiple failures when requesting a trial license. Could it be due to my tenant, something not released outside the US (Premium capacity in West Europe)?

[@GuyInACube]

What are the errors you are seeing?

[@arispagoropoulos3798]

@@GuyInACube I am getting a generic error message “unable to start trial at this time” with Unique Identifiers on Activity and Request ID. I see the icon at the bottom right as the video suggests, but same problem when I am asked to create a workspace

[@GlastoX]

Dude I loved that tshirt.. where did you bought it?

[@GuyInACube]

It is an example of successful Facebook targeted ads 😁 some random T-shirt site.

[@aaronwatsky7741]

Adam, is there any word on when GCC will get this?

[@alt-enter237]

@@aaronwatsky7741 I think he answered that further up the comments.

[@aaronwatsky7741]

@@alt-enter237 He just said after GA but we're all looking for when that's gonna be.

[@Noxious07]

Is there any information on when Fabric will be available to GCC users? This usually isn't known and the general answer is once it leaves "Preview" but I was just looking to see if there was any official details.

[@Cander5142]

One of my team members asked during a round table at Build and they said it would be a matter if days to a couple weeks and not the usual months it takes for us to get new features. Hopefully this will be the case.

[@GuyInACube]

I was told it would be sometime after general availability. Typically preview items aren’t released in GCC.

[@mtavassoti]

How do you create security groups? Thanks.

[@GuyInACube]

You have to create them within Azure AD or the M365 admin portal. You need admin rights to do that as well.

[@juanpablorvvv]

Why no one talks about Fabric price? Will only be available by paying the extremely costly Power BI Premium license? Or just with my Power BI Pro license I would be able to use Fabric (for example create a lakehouse and connect to it)? Please MS don’t forget about small companies as you did with Power BI Premium Capacity 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@alt-enter237]

I have heard the number $160/month mentioned. (NOT a MS employee so please take this with a pound of salt.)

[@HxH_1990]

We started off very small w/ 10 Pro licenses at first, growing to ~100, then ~300, then moved to Premium Capacity. Obviously, some features were not available (like ML) until Premium was subscribed too, but it scaled with us very well.

[@juanpablorvvv]

@@HxH_1990 thank you, but that’s PowerBI, my question is how it would work with Fabric? What’s the price of Fabric? In my company we are only three guys that need Fabric but thousands of users that need to consume the power bi reports. In that scenario what’s the best alternative to use Fabric?

[@JohnKpl]

How about costs?

[@njoy2075]

Microsoft User Experience is getting as bad as it can get. Coming from AWS just to get an understanding of fabric I need to have a custom domain/ set up global admin permissions then this . I guess I should stick to AWS

[@denyschamberland8897]

TBH if someone had claimed a few months ago that whole Synapse ecosystem management would shift from Synapse Studio (remember the claims Swiss knife animated gif) to land at the very bottom left of Power BI Online service - hidden right under a small Power BI icon, I would have probably reacted giggling ... yeah sure... Microsoft Fabric is still in Preview. Transition started smoothly so far and I'm fully aware its impossible to swallow everything in 1st week. One question (or potential issue) prevails however who will be given admins control?. The main reason is I had to deal with Off8ce365 administrators who inherited Power BI Tenants Admins roles & privileges "per interim" having no more background formation than a Power In a Day session. As a result instead of requesting true expertise assistance, they took the easy shortcut pulling the main switch to OFF literally blocking to whole Data Analytics teams who needed access to those. Time wasted sending series of redundant rejected and ignored requests is not an option in our favour. Now imagine if those same Office365 admins people inherit full Microsoft Fabric access monopoly. What can we do?