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title Lab 00 — Prerequisites
description Provision the accounts and subscriptions you need before installing any tooling — GitHub Copilot, a Microsoft 365 work or school account, and a Power Platform environment with Copilot Studio enabled.
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Duration Level Prerequisites
15 min Beginner A Windows machine with admin rights for winget

Overview

Every later lab depends on three accounts being live: a GitHub Copilot subscription that grants you GitHub Copilot CLI access, a Microsoft 365 work or school identity, and a Power Platform environment that has Copilot Studio turned on. None of these can be substituted with a personal Microsoft account or a Gmail address — Copilot Studio sign-up rejects both. Provision them now so the tooling labs run uninterrupted.

Learning objectives

  • Confirm your GitHub Copilot subscription is active and that GitHub Copilot CLI usage is permitted for your account.
  • Sign up for the Copilot Studio free trial with a work or school account.
  • Confirm that a Power Platform environment with Copilot Studio is visible in the portal environment switcher.

Exercise 0.1 — Confirm your GitHub Copilot subscription

  1. Browse to https://github.com/settings/copilot and confirm a Copilot plan is active on your account.
  2. If your account is managed by an organization, ask an organization owner to enable the Copilot CLI policy under Copilot → Policies. GitHub Copilot CLI is gated by this policy independently of editor access.

GitHub Copilot subscription settings page showing an active plan

Exercise 0.2 — Sign up for the Copilot Studio trial

  1. Browse to the trial sign-up link: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2107702.
  2. Sign in with a work or school Microsoft 365 account. Personal Microsoft and Gmail accounts are rejected at this step.
  3. Accept the trial. A default Power Platform environment is provisioned for your tenant if one does not already exist.

Copilot Studio free trial sign-up page

Exercise 0.3 — Confirm your Power Platform environment

  1. Browse to https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com.
  2. Open the environment switcher in the top-right corner.
  3. Confirm at least one non-personal environment appears in the list (for example, Contoso, your tenant default, or a developer environment). You will return to this switcher in Lab 03 to create the agent.

Copilot Studio portal environment switcher showing at least one environment

Verification Checkpoint

Before proceeding, verify:

  • https://github.com/settings/copilot shows an active Copilot plan.
  • Your organization has enabled the Copilot CLI policy (if your Copilot subscription is org-managed).
  • You signed in to https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com with a work or school account and at least one environment is visible.

Next Steps

Proceed to Lab 01 — Install Windows tooling.