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9 years ago
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Power BI gateway administration

Hi, I am about to set up a gateway and wonder, if I should create a dedicated O365 user with Power BI pro license for the gateway setup and data sources. We got a department working with PowerBI an...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Mond,

    I refer to on-premises gateway and on-premises gateway(personal mode). Free users can refresh their reports/dashboard with enterprise gateway.
     


    Regards,

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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Mond,

    Yes.

    And when they are added as gateway administrator, they can add data sources within gateway.

    Regards,
    Lydia

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9 years ago

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.

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9 years ago

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,