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Unable to follow instructions in Power BI Lab - no account details available
- In other labs in MS Learn the credentials you need are displayed in the right-hand pane of the lab. Why they aren't for this one I don't know. I have reported as well and also raised with Microsoft and am trying to find the person responsible.
The response by Skillable is unfortunate
This starts a VM which gives access to a sandbox environment
You should not login with your own credentials as the lab should provide these
I have checked and it doesn't
You need to click on the Help tab in the right-hand pane and Submit a Support Request
- You can also create your own Power BI trial - see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/service-self-service-signup-for-power-bi#use-self-service-sign-up-to-get-an-individual-power-bi-license
OK, looks like this forum doesn't nest replies into each other:
The link you posted is correct, that's the culprit lab.
I have already submitted feedback to MS learn, as you suggested.
I have submitted a help request from within the VM (as you suggested??) which led me to skillable.com support who promptly asked me to seek Community Based Support (this post, obviously) and to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/support/, which didn't help me so far.
I do not know how creating my own Power BI trial would help. I could try that, but I have a Pro license on my work account, some non-standard/free license through my Uni, and a trial on my private account.
All of which do not help.
I have signed up with MS learn. My intuition says me I need to sign up for a module/course or so there in order to receive proper instructions. Or ask my employer to do so?I have also connected my certification profile to my MS learn profile (I think). To do so I have started registering for an exam and then saved the progress. I now have a certification profile ID which is linked to this account. Still, there are now account details anywhere to be found. I have no idea where they are supposed to be coming from.
The instruction just says "Enter the account details provided to you". It seems whoever wrote this, presumes I have signed up somewhere/been signed up by someone which provided account details to me to continue. I have no idea where those should come from.A little addition:
The first issue I've had with this was in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/visuals-power-bi/8-lab (a few before, in the same module). What I noticed there initially (I just logged in with my Uni credentials) that the screenshots (https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/PL-300-Microsoft-Power-BI-Data-Analyst/blob/Main/Instructions/Linked_image_Files/07-design-report-in-power-bi-desktop_image102.png, https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/PL-300-Microsoft-Power-BI-Data-Analyst/blob/Main/Instructions/Linked_image_Files/07-design-report-in-power-bi-desktop_image103.png) seem to be outdated. My web interface doesn't look quite similar, however I can navigate to the admin portal, no problem (see no. 2). But all those option that are visible in no.2 are not available to me.