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Identify pro features on a report
Hi Anonymous ，
Sharing and license in PowerBI Service has always been governed by the following rules：
In power bi service
For normal, if you want to share a private report to others, you and others both need the Pro license.
If you have purchased Premium and add your content to Premium, then when you share the content, the receiver could be free user.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-free-vs-pro
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-premiumAnother way, you could publish report to web, then anyone could access it.
But When you use Publish to web, the report or visual you publish can be viewed by anyone on the Internet. There is no authentication used when viewing these reports. Only use Publish to web with reports and data that the anyone on the Internet (unauthenticated members of the public) should be able to see. This includes detail level data that is aggregated in your reports. Before publishing this report, ensure you have the right to share the data and visualizations publicly. Do not publish confidential or proprietary information. If in doubt, check your organization's policies before publishing.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-publish-to-web
And if you want to share to other user without Power BI Pro license and Power BI premium,you could use publish report to web,also you can store Pbix files in a shared folder.
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Best RegardsLucien
Anonymous wrote:
In our case the reports published on my workspace were accessible by everyone
I have no idea how this would be possible. The "My Workspace" is a special, personal workspace that no one else has access to.
Anonymous wrote:
But since yesterday it's not the case anymore which is quite surprinsing that all of a sudden the rule changed.
There has been no sudden rule change it has always been this way.
How long have you been sharing these reports on powerbi.com? Is it possible that your users signed up for the free 60 day trial of Pro and it expired yesterday?
You can still share the dashboards on "my workspace" so people can access it. It's maybe not the best way but it works.
Yeah i guess it's internal change, not related to Microsoft.
Some reports have been accessible for quite some times without being premium or requesting a pro licence. And no, the trial wasn't on.
Actually, some people in my company without the trial available anymore can still access some of the dashboards which are not premium.