Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user

[dfraser2]

Right now, If I use PowerBI desktop to create a dataset, report and dashboard. I am not able to share it with a standard user. This effectively means that we have to either licence everyone as a pro (very expensive for 4k people), or not use the pro features at all (which isn't what we want). Pro users should be able to build and schedule the PowerBI, and then be able to share with any company user using AD security groups. Without these options the tool may not be a viable option...

[CraigA]

Thanks for clarifying this as a bug. The intended model of usage makes great sense.

[fbcideas_migusr]

I think this is going to put so many potential clients off using Power BI it could have had a great deal of user base expansion but with the cost of having to have a licence for everyone when you want to share anything of great use will certainly put a great many £££ user off even thinking about it as they will rule it out from a procurement perspective and there are a lot of government agencies that I am sure would have been interested in this as part of the Office 365 suite of tools

[blanchet]

We are an organisation of approximately 1500 employees and 100 or so supervisor /director/executive/etc. I am an analyst who works in business governance in a team of four employees. We have to implement and operationalize the GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) business process. Our team thinks that Power BI offers many interesting functions and possibilities to complete / improve our goals, especially to communicate and coordinate information in each department involved in the GRC domains. But, like some others in this post, this is impossible for our team to justify the fees for the organisation (100 or so licences = approximately 15000 CND$/years). Power BI is a real good tool and offers many opportunities, and like Bryant Schaper, our team are willing to pay a bit more for pro licence if users with a free license will be able to consume pro content (without modifying capabilities). About "[...] I hope you can appreciate that it's also not feasible to support a case where for a single publisher at $10/user/month we support an unlimited # of free users.", I would argue that there exists some opportunities that you could consider. For example : • All organisations need to think about "Business continuity": because if the user who has created the content with Power BI is no longer with the organization, this content is lost (cannot be managed by another user). To resolve this, we must create a group and put all content in. So, basically some licences are needed to ensure business continuity... not just one... • There are many departments in our business. If we implement Power BI in our department, many other supervisor/director/executive in the organisation will probably be interested to exploit this tool for their own needs... Therefore, they will also want to acquire Pro licences. Therefore, these aspects should be promoted in sales pitch... We really hope this topic will be reopened and licensing plan reconsidered. Best regards!

[jamesnewsome22]

I was asked by my organization to write up a case why we should purchase pro license. Everyone is excited about potentially adopting Power BI. However, its difficult for me to argue the case with this restriction.

[dodsondesign]

My company is in the same ballpark. Developers need to have developer access, but everyone should have the ability to dig into the data without restrictions.

[prateek_sodhani]

I have a power bi report which uses a dataset which was created through the Power BI desktop connecting to On-premise SQL Server. I wanted to set up a daily schedule. Can anyone confirm if that would required a Pro-License for everyone using the report. Is the bug fixed now?

[gregory_baldin1]

The distinction of Pro vs Free licenses is based primarily around the datasets being accessed. A dataset with multiple daily refreshes against on prem data, or direct query against on prem data requires a Pro license to view. The distinction is not "dev features" as seems to be a common theme in these comments. There are no "dev" features. Every reporting functionality is available in both licenses. The difference is the datasets. The Pro license grants access to more datasets than Free. There is talk of Power BI reports being deployable on prem - this might help with some of the licensing woes for those of you who will be licensing many Ks of employees.

[Tinto_skaria1]

Couldn't agree more....the most worst decision made by microsoft

[john83]

In my mind, this is the only stupid decision made so far about the Power BI Service and is a reflection on the Steve Balmer Microsoft not the Satya Nadella one. $10 a month for the devs is reasonable if they can share automated reports with their team. But $10 a month for every user who may or may not log in and use the reports is not. The initial idea was everyone has access to use PowerBI, Pro accounts needed for more complex work. Not that everyone who can access an automatically updated report needs a Pro account. MS, please change your view point on this topic as it will prevent large scale adoption and use of this tool. For myself, I'll be limited to maintaining all my reports in Excel since I can do all the Pro features there for free, but... it's local and not a web based dashboard.

[fbcideas_migusr]

When is this bug going to be fixed?!?!