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EastleyD
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9 years ago

Licensing question

Hi,   I am currently a Pro user who is creating internal budget performance reporting across ~100 individuals.   Data is stored in a local Access database, and I am using the Personal Gateway to ...
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v-qiuyu-msft
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9 years ago

Hi EastleyD,

 

I'm a Power BI forum support engineer. :smileyhappy:

 

The personal gateway is only available with Power BI Pro, you can see: Power BI Gateway - Personal.

 

You can also take a look at this article how gateway works: Power BI Security.

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

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EastleyD
New Member
9 years ago

I am not sure if you are understanding my question, so I will try and clarify further for you.

 

When Power BI refreshes data from an on-premises data source, the gateway assures your Power BI account has the right permissions to connect to and query data from the source.

 

I am a Pro user, therefore I am able to refresh the dataset using my personal gateway to update ~100 reports.

 

Do I need a gateway?

Before you install a gateway, it's important to know whether or not you really need one. It really depends on your data sources:

On-premises data sources

A personal gateway is required in order to refresh datasets that get data from a supported on-premises data source in your organization.

With a gateway, REFRESH NOW and SCHEDULE REFRESH are supported for datasets uploaded from:

 

Given that the ~100 other users are not required to refresh data (as it has already been done for them) your answer has not really answered clearly why these users will require a Pro license, given they will not actually be refreshing data.