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Was very excited to learn Power Apps as something new to get into, and so was elated when I saw it was part of the 30 day challenge "Build: Power Platform App Maker Challenge".

But I got to the first exercise which is opening the "Fundraiser" app, and to do so I need my own environment. But I can't seem to use one? My work one tells me that administration has locked creation of environments. And when I use my personal account (which is the main account I'm learning in) I receive the message "You can't sign in here with a personal account. Use your work or school account instead."

Does this mean I can no longer to the App Maker Challenge?

Thanks for any advice everyone!

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365-Assist 2,324 Moderator on at

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Can you please send the link for the exercise for the fundraising app.

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calvin_evird 10 on at

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Thanks mate, the link is at:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-model-driven-apps-common-data-service/4-template-apps

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My suggestion is that you ask your Administrators to set up a Trial Environment for you. Perhaps you can send them this document About trial environments: standard and subscription-based - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

The other option (Which is the long way around) is to get yourself a Domain and then sign up for a Microsoft 365 Business Subscription.

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timl 36,815 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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You can subscribe to the developer plan which will give you your own environment.

You'll need to subscribe with your work account, rather than your personal account.

It's possible that your adminstrator may have blocked the developer plan, so can you confirm how far you get with this if you try?

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

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calvin_evird 10 on at

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Thanks everyone, using all the info I found here. I first used the following link, which allowed me to create a whole entire Windows Setup (Office Admin w/ test users, teams, sharepoint etc). With a Microsoft test domain (so I got my own email domain (thanks 365-Assist).
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/profile

I then used the admin email it made here to connect to Power Apps by creating the developer account from the URL (thanks timl)
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/developerplan/

I've now got in Power Apps and can create an Environment. BUT unfortunately I have no space to add the sample data the exercise needs using the Prod/sandbox environment.
This environment can't be created because your org (tenant) needs at least 1 GB of database capacity.
And Test environment which they tell you to use says:
The licenses assigned to this user do not allow creation of a Trial environment. Create a Production environment to continue or contact your administrator for further instructions.
But I am the admin! Thanks everyone. I feel like we're so close.

Mini rant 😞 - I can't believe this is what Microsoft makes you to do if you want to learn Power Apps on your own.

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timl 36,815 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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When you registered for the developer account, it should have created a developer/individual environment and you should be able to use that environment and to provision a Dataverse database without hitting the database capacity error that you encountered when you created a new sandbox/prod enviroment.

You should then be able to carry out the excersise in your dev environment.

In case you're not aware, to switch environments, you'd go to make.powerapps.com and click the environment name in the purple banner to change environment.

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calvin_evird 10 on at

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WOOO YES! So I went into the database section of the initial environment that was created like you said and it allowed me to import the sample data in the tables section!. So I didn't need to do it during the creation of a new environment. And I could do it in the original one! WOOO Thanks mate, thanks all! It worked that way. Its a long way to get the exercise going. But it works woo!

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