| title | Lakehouse tutorial - Create a workspace |
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| description | Learn how to create a workspace that you can use to create other items required by this end-to-end tutorial. |
| ms.reviewer | arali |
| ms.topic | tutorial |
| ms.date | 02/21/2026 |
Before you can begin creating the lakehouse, you need to create a workspace where you can build out the remainder of the tutorial.
Sign up for the free Microsoft Fabric trial. The Fabric trial requires a Power BI license. If you don't have one, sign up for a Fabric free license, and then you can start the Fabric trial.
In this step, you create a Fabric workspace. The workspace contains all the items needed for this lakehouse tutorial, which includes lakehouse, dataflows, Data Factory pipelines, the notebooks, Power BI semantic models, and reports.
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Sign in to the Microsoft Fabric portal.
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Select Workspaces and then select + New workspace.
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Fill out the Create a workspace form with the following details:
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Name: Enter Fabric Lakehouse Tutorial, and any extra characters to make the name unique.
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Description: Enter an optional description for your workspace.
:::image type="content" source="media\tutorial-lakehouse-get-started\create-workspace-details.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Create a workspace dialog box." lightbox="media/tutorial-lakehouse-get-started/create-workspace-details.png":::
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Advanced: Under Workspace type, select Fabric Trial capacity. You can also choose Fabric capacity with F64 SKU or a Power BI Premium capacity with P1 SKU if you have access to them. These SKUs provide you with access to all the Fabric capabilities.
:::image type="content" source="media\tutorial-lakehouse-get-started\select-trial-capacity.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Advanced options dialog box." lightbox="media/tutorial-lakehouse-get-started/select-trial-capacity.png":::
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Select Apply to create and open the workspace.
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