Power Bi free users not able to see reports created by a power premium

[Simon_Hearn]

we have 10+ users using the power bi free.  There are power bi reports that they where able to use.

As the company report developer i have power Bi premium.

I have created power reports in premiumand sent them to users in Teams who have Power Bi free ( under the Microsoft suite) 

When the users go into the reports it constantly asks them th either sign up for the trial power bi pro or deny access.

What is the value of the Power Bi free lience when its porported that power bi free users cn access the power bi reports

Basically i just whant to be able to create reports and the users i send them them to are able to open and use these reports.  This who;le licencing has made an awesome product unusable

[CConsultants1]

I think you can publish to web and then share the link with others this way they can see the report. But the porblem is you cant use rls/pls/ols in that report

[BA_Pete]

Yes, this is possible, but the real issue is that it makes your report public to the WWW.

Pete

[BA_Pete · Accepted solution]

Hi @Simon_Hearn ,

I assume that when you say you have Premium, you mean a Premium-Per-User (PPU) licence, or a Pro licence.

Organisational licensing (capacity) works like this:

There are two 'capacity' types - Premium/Dedicated (1) and Standard/Shared (2).

(1) Premium/Dedicated gives an organisation dedicated server capacity at MS, allows ALL premium features, and costs anywhere from around £4,000 per capacity, per month, upwards.

(2) Standard/Shared gives an organisation shared space (shared with other orgs) on Power BI servers, allows NO premium features (by default), and is what you would call 'Power BI Free' (which essentially means anyone can log into Power BI Desktop and develop reports/use the mashup capabilities etc. for free).

User licensing works like this:

If your organisation has capacity (1), then only report Developers/Publishers need Pro licences in order to publish to the Service. Reports can be built using any Premium features and can then be shared with essentially anyone without the need for them to hold their own licences.

If your organisation has capacity (2), then all report Developers/Publishers, as well as report Consumers, need to have at least a Pro licence in order to publish reports to the Service, as well as view reports in the Service, which use NO premium features.

If your organisation has capacity (2) and you want to use SOME/MOST premium features, then both the premium Developers and the premium Consumers need to have PPU licences. Reports can still be developed/published/consumed with just Pro licences in this scenario, but they can't use any premium features without attracting the need for devs/consumers to upgrade to PPU licences.

Overall and in summary, this is actually a very flexible and accommodating licencing structure for org scalability.

For your scenario, within an org of around 10 consumers and one developer, you would most likely want to get all parties a Pro licence for around £6-£8 per user, per month. If there are some reports that need to use premium features, then the developer of these premium reports, and the consumers of these premium reports, will each need PPU licences at around £12-£17 per user, per month.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/ 

Pete