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Power BI gateway administration
Anonymous,
It doesn't require license to use gateway now, Power BI free users can also use data gateway. For more details, please review this article: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-premium/ .
In addition, you can add users on the Administrators tab for the registered gateway, this way, users can administer the gateway even the employee leaves. For more details, please review this article.
Regards,
Lydia
Hi, that reminds me that I was not specific enough. It is a shared gateway, hence not a personal one and needs to access our on-premise SQL server. Apparently with the free license we cannot do this, but if you say that even with the free license I can set up the gateway (non-personal), then I will give it a try. Thanks.
Anonymous,
Based on my test, with Power BI free account, we can set up on-premises gateway, and also we can add other free users as administrator of the gateway as described in my first reply.
Regards,
Anonymous (Lydia),
It doesn't require license to use gateway now, Power BI free users can also use data gateway
Which data gateway are you referring to, as an admin, I can create Enterprise Gateway and will Power BI Free users refresh their reports/dashboards with enterprise gateway.
Mond,
I refer to on-premises gateway and on-premises gateway(personal mode). Free users can refresh their reports/dashboard with enterprise gateway.
Regards,I installed now the gateway with a Power BI pro user, for now, just to be sure that the data sources are generated with that account. I will try to switch over to free and see what happens with a test instance.
Thanks for the answer.
Best
Martin
