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tenenwurcel
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Doubts about Power Bi Capacity

Hello everyonye,

 

I have created a application to share my reports with the customers of my company (whom doesn't have a Power BI account).

 

And even when my Power BI Embedded capacity is paused, they can still access and visualize it.

 

I have a Power BI Pro account. Is it supose to work like that?

 

I also have a second doubt.

 

Is it possible to start and stop the capacity programmatically?

 

Thank you very much,

 

Henrique. 

 


  • tenenwurcel wrote:

    Hello everyonye,

     

    I have created a application to share my reports with the customers of my company (whom doesn't have a Power BI account).

     

    And even when my Power BI Embedded capacity is paused, they can still access and visualize it.

     

    I have a Power BI Pro account. Is it supose to work like that?

     

    I also have a second doubt.

     

    Is it possible to start and stop the capacity programmatically?

     

    Thank you very much,

     

    Henrique. 

     


    tenenwurcel

    1. At this moment, it is suposed to work for a limited period and then you'll keep failing calling the API GenerateToken.
    2. The product team is working on the capacity APIs, so the answer is No at this moment.

     

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  • Eric_Zhang's avatar
    Eric_Zhang
    Microsoft Employee

    tenenwurcel wrote:

    Hello everyonye,

     

    I have created a application to share my reports with the customers of my company (whom doesn't have a Power BI account).

     

    And even when my Power BI Embedded capacity is paused, they can still access and visualize it.

     

    I have a Power BI Pro account. Is it supose to work like that?

     

    I also have a second doubt.

     

    Is it possible to start and stop the capacity programmatically?

     

    Thank you very much,

     

    Henrique. 

     


    tenenwurcel

    1. At this moment, it is suposed to work for a limited period and then you'll keep failing calling the API GenerateToken.
    2. The product team is working on the capacity APIs, so the answer is No at this moment.

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable

      Under a separate thread, I have documented how we cannot assign a workspace to an Azure PowerBI resource (whether it is paused or running). It generates an error that is entirely unhelpful.

       

      I'd like to make a pitch to move some of our home-grown dashboards to PowerBI, but it all seems rather fragile at the moment. We can't afford the big $$ investment that big corporations can to support the occassional user that wants to explore a dashboard. An A1 instance would be fine if we can programtically start and stop it and it doesn't help that we can't take an existing workspace and associate it with the Azure instance.