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License problem for example separate usage of the cores

We are an international medical device manufacturer. Nowadays, we are developing the business to provide our customers(hospitals) BI reports. Since the hospitals usually don’t want to put their data ...
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    8 years ago

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    1. Based on the response here -> http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Report-Server/Power-BI-Report-Server-Licensing/m-p/299910#M2097 and the fact that you can scale out the deployment to multiple servers I would say as long as you don't exceed the core licensing you should be fine.

    2. The license applies to those that are building reports. This isn't even enforced, its just a license requirement. I don't see how an admin of the Report Server would require a license in this case if they aren't building PBI reports.

     

    3. Yes, Only for the authors or people that are building the reports.

     

    4. I am not aware of any restrictions. The full requirements doc is here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/system-requirements I've deployed to a Standard box. I think the only stipulation in that regard would be an edition that supports RS.