Microsoft Power Platform: Setup Tenant

Microsoft Power Platform is a line of business intelligence, app development, and app connectivity software applications. The Power Platform includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. It also provides integrations with GitHub and Teams.

In order to start with any of the any of the Power Platform’s tools, a user needs to setup a tenant as a first step. Today, we are going to learn how can setup a trial tenant in Power Platform.

So without wasting anytime, Let’s get started!!

1. Open a browser and navigate to Office 365 E3 | Microsoft
2. Click on Free trial to navigate to trial sign up page. (As shown in Figure: 1 below)

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3. Enter your Microsoft Account (MSA) e-mail address and click Next. If you don’t have MSA, you can create one on www.live.com. Once you create your MSA, follow the steps below.

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4. Click Set up account.

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5. Fill in your information and click Next.

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6. You’ll be asked to verify you identify using either phone call or text message. Follow directions and confirm your identity by specifying phone number.

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7. On the Create your business identity section supply a unique domain name

Note: you should choose your own unique tenant domain (I use demotrainingcompany just as an example)

8. Click Check availability and click next if the custom domain name is available.

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9. Now, let’s create an admin user ID and password for your tenant domain. You can choose any Name. Once you fill out your username and password, click Sign Up.

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10. Wait while tenant is created. It usually takes less than 1 min. Then click Get Started.

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11. This will navigate you to Office admin portal. When you land on the admin center page, you need to EXIT SETUP (note this could be a small UI in the bottom right hand corner)

That’s it!!

Next Step — How to setup a trial environment?

Disclaimer: Information in this article, including URL and other Internet Web site references, UI Designs and steps to create a tenant may changed in the future. Screenshots were captured from Microsoft site.

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