From the course: Advanced Microsoft Fabric Implementation and Governance

Prerequisite course knowledge and resources

From the course: Advanced Microsoft Fabric Implementation and Governance

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Prerequisite course knowledge and resources

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- [Instructor] As this is an advanced Fabric class, we assume you have some existing familiarity with Microsoft Fabric. We hope that you've taken at least one other Fabric course such as Microsoft data flows and data storage prior to taking this one. To take this course, you'll need access to a Microsoft Fabric tenant, which either has the trial or an F SKU license of some kind. To view the Fabric license, we'll need to go to the admin portal. Inside of the tenant settings, we can see what kind of capacity has been set up. Inside of this Fabric section, make sure that the option for letting users create Fabric items is enabled as you see here. Also, if you're running the trial, make sure that users can try Microsoft Paid Features is selected as well. The minimum license that you will need is an F2 license, which works out to 36 cents an hour, or $262.80 a month. You can turn it off when you're not using it, so your monthly cost could be a lot less. We'll be doing a short section to visualize what you can do with Copilot and Spark, and that does require an F64 license, but there are no exercises using an F64 license, so you can just watch that part. In addition to to Microsoft Fabric, you'll also need an Azure DevOps account. If you don't already have an Azure DevOps account, go to the URL with a Microsoft account and select start for free. You will need a Microsoft account such as a 365 account or outlook.com account to sign up, enter the account credentials, and as your DevOps will create an organization and a project named after your Microsoft account or will prompt you to create a project. If you are not part of an organization, you will need to create one prior to creating the project. Here you can see that my project is called Advance Fabric. This of course also uses a GitHub account and repo, which you can create for free by going to github.com and clicking on the signup button in the top right corner using an email you need to validate with a code. Once you've created a new account, then click on the button, new repository. Here you can create a new repository, I'm going to call it Advanced Fabric. I'm going to say that give it a description of class repo and I'm going to make mine private. You can choose to make yours public if you wish. I'm going to go ahead and add a repo. In my license, I'm going to go, I don't need one, so I'm just going to leave that alone. And this is going to set main as my default branch, which is fine. Next, I'm going to collect, Create Repository, so we can use this for class. We'll also be using the free version of VS Code with several different extensions installed to incorporate Git and Python. You can download VS Code using code.visualstudio.com and download. Download whichever version you feel like installing to your machine. I generally prefer the user installer with the 64, just makes things easier as we will be reviewing source control in all aspects of Power BI, including Fabric. You'll also need to download Power BI if you haven't already. I've included the URL here, which is microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx. This will provide you with the latest version of Power BI desktop that is available. We'll also be incorporating the ability to add security to the data in Fabric. And for that, we're going to be using SQL Server Management Studio. That is available for download here. All you need to do is download SQL Server Management Studio using this link. Lastly, we'll be loading some test data into one link, which we will be using as part of the course. When we do that, we'll be doing it from inside of a Lakehouse. So for example, all you would need to do is follow the instructions once you have created a Lakehouse where you can upload files from the file section and explore. And that's everything you need to know to be able to configure your machine for everything we need in this course.

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