Lab 0: Validate lab environment

Scenario

Bellows College is an educational organization with multiple buildings on campus. Campus visitors are currently recorded in paper journals. The information is not captured consistently, and there are no means to collect and analyze data about the visits across the entire campus.

Campus administration would like to modernize their visitor registration system where access to the buildings is controlled by security personnel and all visits are required to be pre-registered and recorded by their hosts.

Throughout this course, you will build applications and perform automation to enable the Bellows College administration and security personnel to manage and control access to the buildings on campus.

In this Module 0 lab, you will acquire a Power Platform trial and access the Power Platform admin center. In the admin center, you will then create a Practice environment that you will perform the majority of your lab work in.

Exercise 1 – Setup

Task #1 - Acquire your Microsoft Power Platform trial tenant

  1. Copy your Microsoft 365 credentials from the Authorized Lab Hoster.

  2. Navigate to https://powerapps.microsoft.com and click Start free.

  3. Under Let’s get you started, enter the email address from your Microsoft 365 credentials in the text box that says Enter your work email address and click Next.

  4. If you see a prompt that you have an existing account with Microsoft. Select Sign in.

  5. Enter the password provided by the Authorized Lab Hoster and sign in.

  6. Select Yes to stay signed in.

  7. Do not change country.

  8. For Phone number, enter 0123456789.

  9. Complete your account info and select Get started to sign up for your Microsoft Power Platform trial.

  10. At the confirmation screen, click Get Started.

  11. If you see a prompt to enter contact details, click on X to close the popup window.

Task #2 – Create environment

  1. Navigate to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com and log in with your Microsoft 365 credentials if prompted.

  2. If you see a Welcome popup, click Get Started.

  3. Select Environments and click + New.

    1. For Name, enter [My Initials] Practice (Example: AJ Practice).

    2. For Type, select Trial (do not select the Trial (subscription-based) option).

    3. Change the toggle on Create a database for this environment? to Yes.

    4. Leave all other selections as default and click Next.

    5. On the next tab, leave all selections as default and click Save.

  4. Your Practice environment should now show in the list of Environments.

Your environment may take a few minutes to provision. Refresh the page if needed.