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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Restrict Publishing from Desktop to Service

I'm being asked to restrict the ability of a desktop user to publish to the PBI service. Only a few developers should have publish authority. I know we can restrict app workspaces, apps, etc. but the...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Microsoft rep got back with a solution. In short, upgrade to Premium service and remove all Pro licenses except keep developers as Pro. That way free users can consume through the service but cannot publish or share. We were not ready to move to Premium but it appears that is the only option. 

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Anonymous,

A workaround is to disable sign ups for Power BI, this way, users can't publish PBIX file to Power BI Service. There is a similar thread for your reference.

Regards,
Lydia

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

But we want the information consumers to use Power BI service, just not have the ability to publish anything there. If we disable sign in are we not also preventing them from consuming content on the service?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      7 years ago

      Microsoft rep got back with a solution. In short, upgrade to Premium service and remove all Pro licenses except keep developers as Pro. That way free users can consume through the service but cannot publish or share. We were not ready to move to Premium but it appears that is the only option. 

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        LivioLanzo
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        7 years ago

        Hi Anonymous

         

        I was wondering if this would disable publishing to 'My Workspace' for Free Users ?