Deploy Retail data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview)

  • 6 minutes

In this exercise, you assume the role of Jessie and enable the Retail data solutions feature in the Microsoft Fabric admin portal. You then deploy Retail data solutions in Microsoft Fabric.

Task - Enable Microsoft Fabric and Retail data solutions on your tenant

To enable Retail data solutions in your Power BI environment, complete the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Microsoft Power BI home page with Jessie Irwin's credentials.

    Screenshot of the Microsoft Power BI Home page.

  2. Select the settings icon from the upper-right corner of the home page. Then, select Admin portal.

    Screenshot of Microsoft Power BI Home page with the settings icon selected and the Admin portal option highlighted.

  3. Expand the Users can create Fabric items menu. Select the Enabled option and then select The entire organization under the Apply to section.

    Screenshot of the Microsoft Fabric Admin portal page with Enabled selected under Users can create Fabric items.

  4. Expand Retail data solutions (preview). Select the Enabled option and then select The entire organization under the Apply to section. Select Apply.

    Screenshot of the Microsoft Fabric Admin portal page with Enabled selected under Retail data solutions preview.

    You should get a notification stating that your Tenant settings changes will be applied within the next 15 minutes.

    Screenshot of the Microsoft Fabric Admin portal page with the Applying changes notification highlighted.

After the system applies the changes, you can move on to the next task.

Task - Deploy Retail data solutions (preview)

To deploy Retail data solutions in Power BI, complete the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Microsoft Power BI home page with Jessie Irwin's credentials. From the lower-left corner, select the Power BI icon and then select Microsoft Fabric.

    Note

    If the icon doesn't appear immediately, wait for the changes that you made in the previous task to be effective.

    Screenshot of Power BI on the Home page with the Power BI icon selected to reveal the Microsoft Fabric option.

  2. Select the Industry Solutions card.

    Screenshot of Microsoft Fabric with the Industry Solutions card highlighted.

  3. From the left navigation pane, select Workspaces > New workspace.

    Screenshot of Industry Solutions on the Workspaces page with New workspace highlighted.

  4. Enter RDS_Workspace as the Name of the workspace. Select Apply. For more information, see Workspaces.

    Screenshot of Industry Solutions on the Create a workspace pane with the name set to R D S workspace.

  5. After the system creates your workspace, select Manage access from the upper bar.

    Screenshot of Industry Solutions on the F B T workspace page with Manage access highlighted.

  6. Select Add people or groups.

    Screenshot of Industry Solutions on the Manage access pane with the Add people or groups button highlighted.

  7. Search for and select Megan Bowen. Change the role to Contributor and then select Add.

    Screenshot of the Add people pane with Megan Bowen added and the role changed to Contributor.

  8. Add Joni Sherman as the Viewer and then close the pane.

    Screenshot of the Add people pane with Joni Sherman added and the role changed to Viewer with the Close icon highlighted.

  9. Select the New Item button and from the pane search for and select Retail solutions (preview).

    Screenshot of Industry Solutions on the F B T workspace page with New selected to reveal the Retail solutions (preview) page.

    A pop-up window appears, notifying you that your workspace will upgrade to the free Fabric trial capacity.

    Screenshot of the Upgrade to a free Microsoft Fabric trial pop-up window.

    After the upgrade, the pop-up window reflects that your workspace is Successfully upgraded to a free Microsoft Fabric trial.

    Screenshot of the Successfully upgraded to a free Microsoft Fabric trial pop-up window.

  10. In the Create Retail data solutions pop-up window, enter Contoso_rds as the Name. Select Create.

    Screenshot of the Create Retail data solutions pop-up window.

  11. The system redirects you to the Retail Data Manager screen, or RDS_Contoso_rds, where you can view the data solution capabilities that you can deploy.

    Screenshot of Retail data solutions preview showing an array of Solution capabilities.

Congratulations, you successfully deployed Retail data solutions. Now, you can explore the capabilities that are available on top of Retail data solutions.

For more information, see Enable Retail data solutions on your tenant and Deploy Retail data solutions (preview).