topic Re: Trying to open a shared report by link, from my boss, and the message "to buy Power BI pro" appears in Report Server

Trying to open a shared report by link, from my boss, and the message "to buy Power BI pro" appears

Fredcarmoro — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:51:35 GMT

Hi all,
Please, I trying to open a shared report by link, from my boss, and the message "to buy Power BI pro" appears and it`s not opening the report. Other people, who doesnt develop anything in Pbi open it whitout any problem, but I`m just been able to open my own workspace files... I`m using the company notebook with licensed vertion of whole 365 office. We can`t buy or install anything by ourselves, then what is happenning. I`ve already tried to log out from office, thinking that may it be "confusing" some free account used to learn with my company account, but still doenst work.
Any one?! Didn`t find any similar issue searching in forum.

Re: Trying to open a shared report by link, from my boss, and the message "to buy Power BI pro" appears

d_gosbell — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:52:22 GMT

This message means that your login does not have a Power BI Pro license associated with it and you need one of these in order to view content on other workspaces outside of your My Workspace (the only exception here is if your company has purchase a Power BI Premium capacity in which case you access content on a premium workspace with a free license).

You will need to talk to someone at your company with Office 365 admin rights to see if they can check whether you have a Power BI Pro license or not. And if not request that one be allocated to you.

Fredcarmoro wrote:

I`m using the company notebook with licensed vertion of whole 365 office.

There are different levels of office licensing and only the top level (known as an E5 license) includes Power BI Pro. If you do not have an E5 license then you will need to either get a separate Power BI Pro license purchased and allocated to you or get your license upgraded to an E5 (some companies purchase different levels of office licenses for different groups of staff)

Re: Trying to open a shared report by link, from my boss, and the message "to buy Power BI pro" appears

v-henryk-mstf — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 06:25:10 GMT

Hi Fredcarmoro ,

Whether the advice given by d_gosbell has solved your confusion, if the problem has been solved you can mark the reply for the standard answer to help the other members find it more quickly. If not, please point it out.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Best Regards,
Henry