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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 and the staff there has a high turnover. So I want to avoid loosing any administrative power over the gateway setup and data sources specified by setting up the gateway with a Power BI Pro licensed user which then leaves and the license is withdrawn.
Any experience or thoughts on this? I would like to save a Power BI pro license, but loosing the on-premise datasource because an employee leaves would be worse.
Best
Martin
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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,
LydiaHi, 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 (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,
