https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3716601#M33018 <P>Hello everyone,</P><P>I'm curious to learn if there's a possibility to share reports hosted on an on-premises instance of Power BI Report Server with external users. These external users might include employees from partner organizations or individual customers.</P><P>Despite my efforts to find official documentation on this matter, all the documents I've come across only discuss external user sharing in the Power BI Service.</P> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:15:24 GMT UyenL 2024-02-22T09:15:24Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3716601#M33018 <P>Hello everyone,</P><P>I'm curious to learn if there's a possibility to share reports hosted on an on-premises instance of Power BI Report Server with external users. These external users might include employees from partner organizations or individual customers.</P><P>Despite my efforts to find official documentation on this matter, all the documents I've come across only discuss external user sharing in the Power BI Service.</P> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:15:24 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3716601#M33018 UyenL 2024-02-22T09:15:24Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3717898#M33022 <P>That's correct, Power BI Report Server is squarely aimed at internal only consumption.&nbsp; You can contort your way out of this but that is called "fighting the API"&nbsp; and not recommended.</P> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:03:06 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3717898#M33022 lbendlin 2024-02-22T18:03:06Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3718767#M33026 <P>Could you let me know how I can hypothetically work out a solution for this if the client still wishes to use PBIRS and share reports with external users?</P> Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:41:29 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3718767#M33026 UyenL 2024-02-23T04:41:29Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3720729#M33033 <P>You would use a translator app from the external user IDs to internal IDs, much like a NAT setup.&nbsp; Not something that you can scale.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I recommend you read this instead:&nbsp;&nbsp;<A href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/whitepaper-azure-b2b-power-bi" target="_blank">Distribute Power BI content to external guest users using Microsoft Entra B2B - Power BI | Microsoft Learn</A></P> Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:58:08 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Report-Server/Share-reports-with-external-users-in-Power-BI-Report-Server/m-p/3720729#M33033 lbendlin 2024-02-23T21:58:08Z