From the course: Microsoft Power Platform Foundations

What you need

From the course: Microsoft Power Platform Foundations

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What you need

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- [Instructor] If you wish to work along with any of the demonstrations in this course, you will want to have access to the tool or tools that you'll want to try. So if you're logged into a Microsoft 365 product already, if you're in Teams or if you're in SharePoint or Outlook, click the app launcher or waffle in the upper left hand corner and just take a look and see. Do you have access to Power BI, Power apps, power Automate, Copilot, yes, but I don't see Power Pages here. But if I entered Power as a search term, here's Power Pages. So these are all right here. And therefore I have access to work with any of them. If you don't have access and you are in a work or educational account, then you should talk to your Microsoft 365 administrator and tell 'em this is something you would like to learn more about and see if they'll assign these licenses to you. If your administrator won't help you with this, or if you don't have access to a work or educational account, then we need to try something else. All of these tools are made for organizational use. So I can't log into, for example, Power apps using a Gmail or a Hotmail address. I have to have an account that's a work account or an educational account. So I need to set one up. I can do that though, and I can do it for free. So if I go to office.microsoft.com, then you will have the ability here to get a free one month trial of Microsoft 365. The point is to choose the right one. Now from, here I can choose Try for free. But before you do that, if I try for free from this page, it's going to want to give me Microsoft 365 for home. Sometimes this is 365 for business. It just depends. So I want to give you a little bit of a shortcut here. Let's click on For business and now choose See plans and pricing. So get to business first. Here's the home tab, here's the business tab. When you go through business, you have a home tab; if you go through home, you don't get a business tab. And you want one of two plans, and they're the two in the center here, Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium. They each have different features and you can read about them and you're going to get a free month. So if it was important to you to also try out Intune or Microsoft Defender, then you might be drawn toward the Business Premium. But Business Standard will be good enough because what we're going to get, if you click Try free for one month, then you will be set up with a one month trial for Microsoft 365 Business Standard. And that will give you a new email address that you can use that the Power platform and all of the other Microsoft 365 applications will understand as a work address. It will end with on microsoft.com. So if you need to set up a business environment in order to try out anything in Microsoft 365, you do it free for one month right here by going to office.microsoft.com. So let's assume you've done that and you are working in Outlook, for example, working on your mail. That's cool. And I would now like to go to Power Apps. I can just click here and I can go to Power Apps. And I will automatically be logged in and taken into Power Apps, make.powerapps.com. Or I can simply enter powerbi.com and I will be taken directly into the application. But I've been here before, so I'm logged in and Power BI, in this case, is ready to start working with me.

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