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Introduction:  A few days back I was setting up an Office 365 trial for one of my clients. Turns out that recently Microsoft introduced Office trial signup with Credit Card. You cannot directly signup for a trial without Credit Card as confirmed by the post below from Microsoft Community. Pre-requisites:  Basic Understanding of the Office 365 Signup process. Books & References:  Link References Microsoft Community Office 365 E3 Trial Demonstration: 1. Sign up for  Office 365 E3 Trial : Once you have visited the Link, click and fill in your details for the signup. In the signup process, provide your email address. Click on Set up Account Fill in the Sign-Up Details Verify the Sign-Up details Create your Username and Password for Office 365 Tenant At this point, Office 365 account is created and will ask you to put your Payment Method as Credit Card even to Signup. Hence, I was stuck here and I wanted to find an alternative. 2. Login to office.com : Once you login to Office.com, in t

Introduction: In my earlier blog on Implementing extensions in NAV Development Preview using Docker  there were a few complications for docker managing the container. With the BCContainerHelper released, setting up Docker became easier. Check out the post below. Pre- requisites : Understanding of Docker Understanding of BCContainerHelper Demonstration: 1. Install BCContainerHelper: To install BCContainerHelper, you will need to install the Powershell Module. Run Powershell as Administrator > Run the Powershell Script. Command: Install-Module BCContainerHelper -Force 2. Start BCContainerHelper Wizard: i. Start BCContainerHelper: To run the BCContainerHelperWizard, you will need to run the PowerShell Command. Note that the Wizard is in CLI form. Command: New-BcContainerWizard ii. Accept EULA: To proceed you will need to accept the EULA. iii. Local Container or Azure VM Deployment: This screen provides the deployment type. You can either choose Local Container or Azure VM. iv. Authenti

Introduction: In this blog, I will showcase how to setup Hyper-V in Windows and Install OS on Hyper-V Pre- requisites : Basic Understanding of Hyper-V Understanding of OS Installation Books & References: Setup Hyper-V Demonstration: 1. Enable Hyper-V through Windows: Search for Turn Windows features ON or OFF in Windows Search and Enable Hyper-V Once you hit OK, Hyper-V will be installed and the setup will complete. You will need to Restart your machine.  2. Creation of Virtual Machine in Hyper-V: Once Hyper-V is installed, you can simply search for Hyper-V in Windows Search. In Hyper-V, you will need to create Virtual Machine. Select New > Virtual Machine. Add the Virtual Machine Name Select VM Generation. This is similar to Legacy or UEFI Boot. Select the Allowed Memory(RAM) for the VM. Select Network Adapter Create Virtual Hard Disk Drive and select the size for the same. In order to Boot the OS, you will need the bootable drive or ISO image of the OS You can now go ahead and