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. I use power apps in my workplace but would like to have a personal account to develop my own tools. However I am going round in circles with support calls and chats. I’ve been going round in circles So long that the offices are now closed. Has anyone got any advice? I am not a business - there must be an account for those wanting to learn and develop.

any advice much appreciated-YB

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Pstork1 68,707 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If by personal account you mean Microsoft account then there is no real way to do that. However, you can get a free one person account called a community edition. It allows access to almost everything, but is legally limited to one user and can only be used for learning, not production. You can apply for a community plan here:

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/communityplan/

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Thank you for taking the time to reply - this is exactly what I need. Brilliant- thank you
yb

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Spangran 5 on at

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But this only works with work addresses?
The point is I want to leave my work and retrain in a new skill.

I have the same problem with Project for the Web

I want learn a new software. But I can't buy it. I can only ask my work to buy it. But I don't want my work to know I'm doing it, its a personal task

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This is an old post. You used to be able to get the community edition with any email. That has now been replaced with the Developer Plan. For that you need a Work or School account. You can request a trial of Office 365 and create the developer plan using that email. I'm not sure if it will continue to work after the Office 365 trial ends.

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So if you are unemployed and want to learn power apps to help you be more employable , you can’t do that because you need a work address?

Seems a catch 22. I want to learn this to help me get a job but I can’t access it because I haven’t got a job

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You can get a trial of Office 365 (and Power Apps) for 3o days and extend it for another 30 days. But there is no way to get a permanent developer license without a work or school address. Or you can buy an Office 365 Business Basic license for $6.00 per month and use that for the Power Apps developer sign up.

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jukka-niiranen 351 on at

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@Spangran You should look at singing up for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

While it isn't advertised as the program for Power Platform low-code developers in particular, it definitely supports most of the core scenarios required for learning and building solutions with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and so on. I've written a blog post about how the developer tenant can be leveraged in the scenario of learning Power Platform governance, please have a look at it for more details: https://forwardforever.com/learn-power-platform-governance-with-the-microsoft-365-developer-tenant/

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Pstork1 68,707 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Unfortunately, that requires a Work or School account at this point also. That's the problem @YvyB was asking about in the original post.

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jukka-niiranen 351 on at

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No, it does not require a Work or school account. A Microsoft account is perfectly valid for signing up for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, see documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/developer-program/microsoft-365-developer-program

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I stand corrected. But the page was just updated on 04/26/2023. I was researching this for someone else last fall and in September it wouldn't accept anything except a Work or School Account. I know it used to allow Microsoft accounts, but it didn't in the fall of 2022. Evidently theyve gotten it fixed and its back to working the way it should.

UPDATE:

Let me clarify this. We are talking about two different developer plans. The Microsoft 365 developer plan gives you access to an M365 tenant. With that license you can develop Power Apps and Flows, but only using standard connectors, because its the equivalent of an M365 E5 license.

What I was talking about is the Power Apps Developer plan. This gives you access to premium connectors in Power Apps and Power Automate. But it does still require a Work or School account to sign up. About the Power Apps Developer Plan - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn We've been talking about two different Developer plans and that's where the confusion came in.

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