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Hi Anonymous,
Thank you for the reply!
I am publishing from within PBI desktop (and the other user would be publishing in the same way). We are going through an entire IT reconfiguration, so "Get Data" through powerbi.com is not currently an available option.
Do you have a Pro licenses of Power BI? If so, you can create a group workspace where you and your employee can publish to the same place and overwrite each others' files. If you have a free license, then you will need to have your employee send the updated .pbix file to you and you will need to publish the file.
We currently have the standard PBI licenses.
That is what I suspected, thank you for the information.
I'm still wondering, is it possible that I only upgrade my license, and my employee's license to pro while keeping all of our other users license standard? Would this still allow us to create a workspace to publish to and overwrite eachother's files, while still allowing our existing standard users to consume reports / dashboards the way that they currently do?
bdpetersen10 I'm not totally sure - would be a good question to follow up with the Power BI team about.
According to my interpretation of this article, anyone consuming a report that exists in a group workspace would need a Power BI Pro license https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/
Hi bdpetersen10,
>>is it possible that I only upgrade my license, and my employee's license to pro while keeping all of our other users license standard?
Yes, we can get Pro license individually. You can refer to this article: Purchasing Power BI Pro as an individual.
>>Would this still allow us to create a workspace to publish to and overwrite eachother's files, while still allowing our existing standard users to consume reports / dashboards the way that they currently do?
Assume you and your employee both have Pro license, and have edit permission in the Group workspace. Both you two guys can modify the content in this workspace, include overwrite the report.
But as other users doesn't have Pro license and group workspace content requires Pro license, once you and your employee share the dashboard with other users, they can't access the dashboard.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu
