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Licensing for Non-Publishing PBIRS Desktop Users
Asked this question on the Desktop forum, as it really addresses the Desktop client: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Licensing-for-Non-Publishing-Desktop-Report-Server-Version-Users/m-p/602517#M286710
To summarize, Microsoft used vague language addressing this. If you want to ensure you're in compliance, give a Power BI Pro license to anybody "sharing" Power BI reports. "Sharing" could mean sending reports via email.
Helper II feel like there is some confusion on this. If you have PBIRS through SQL Enterprise then you don't need any additional licensing. PBIRS is an in house server and not on Microsoft's cloud service. You don't need to buy any PowerBI Pro licenses to use PBIRS.
Incorrect.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
"A Power BI Pro license is required to publish content to Power BI Report Server."
- adrez86
I reached out to the power bi sales team for clarification.
My original question was "If we get Power BI Report Server through SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance would we also need a Power BI Pro license? I was in the community forum and someone said that you have to have a Power BI Pro license to upload to the Power BI Report Server. Isn’t the Report Server on premise? Why would a cloud service license be needed to upload a report to an on premise server?"
I received a reply saying that a pro license is needed and then within 5 minutes received this follow up email