Personal Gateway option not visible

[wi11iamr]

Hi there,

After logging into PowerBI.com I wish to setup a personal gateway to my laptop so I may refresh my dashboards.

when I select the "Schedule Refresh" option of my dataset, I'm taken to the Settings|Datasets option, however I then don't see an option to use the Personal Gateway. All I have is a "Try Pro For Free" button.

Please advise what limitation do I have that prevents me from seeing the Personal Gateway option?

[Baskar]

Hi ,

Sorry, for free user cant set personal getway, change to pro user to get the Option.

Free user mode no Schedule in Power BI.

For pro u have 60 days trail period try to use it , enjoy buddy

[ankitpatira · Accepted solution]

@wi11iamr Power bi personal gateway is only available with Pro account therefore you first need Pro or Pro trial account. Once you have that you can go to downloads icon in power bi service on top right and download gateway from there.

[wi11iamr]

Thanks @ankitpatira.

Please advise, if I wanted to make use of an Enterprise Gateway for future access of datasources in the cloud (I.e. not on-premise), would I then also just need a PowerBI Pro license, or is there a different option I should buy within my organisation?

[ankitpatira]

@wi11iamr You definately need Pro account for enterprise gateway.

However if you're connecting to datasource in cloud say Azure SQL DB for example you don't even need enterprise gateway, power bi can connect live to that. But that is also power bi pro feature and you can't have that with free account.

Hope that make sense.