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On-prem Report Server and Pro Accounts
hi Anonymous. I can confirm there is no built in functionality that prevents non-licensed users to save reports to the Report Server . Thus anyone can just use PowerBI Desktop for report server and save/publish to the report server if granted appropriate roles (A report browser won't be able to publish reports) within report server environment(managed completely seperate from Pro licenses). However it is a licensing requirement from Microsoft, thus you would breach the EULA which obviously you shouldn't.
I'm trying to find out the specifics here on where the line is between what behaviour would require a pro license and what behaviou wouldn't. e.g. is publishing in a folder on the report server but not sharing with others considered as "publishing shared PowerBI reports". How about working with "My Folder" (similar to PowerBI Service "My Workspace"). And what about admins who appear to have access to all published reports, is this considered sharing with others?
Anonymous wrote:I've taken this from the EULA, which can be found within the installation directory after the product has been installed:
The following license terms describe additional use terms for this software.
Power BI Report Server – Sharing Content
A Power BI Pro User SL is required to publish shared Power BI reports using the Power BI Report Server.
Your proposed configuration of roles/permissions makes sense, especially if you want to ensure you are abiding by the licence terms.
I couldn't figure out how to highlight the text I want to refer to, so I changed the color.
That's what my question is about: how is it "required?" Is it functionally required? Will users not be able to reach the server if they do not have a Pro license? Does Desktop check for a Pro subscription?
Thanks.
hi Anonymous. I can confirm there is no built in functionality that prevents non-licensed users to save reports to the Report Server . Thus anyone can just use PowerBI Desktop for report server and save/publish to the report server if granted appropriate roles (A report browser won't be able to publish reports) within report server environment(managed completely seperate from Pro licenses). However it is a licensing requirement from Microsoft, thus you would breach the EULA which obviously you shouldn't.
I'm trying to find out the specifics here on where the line is between what behaviour would require a pro license and what behaviou wouldn't. e.g. is publishing in a folder on the report server but not sharing with others considered as "publishing shared PowerBI reports". How about working with "My Folder" (similar to PowerBI Service "My Workspace"). And what about admins who appear to have access to all published reports, is this considered sharing with others?
Thank you everyone for bringing this to the surface. I am now wondering this as well. As the poster showed in the EULA, it sounds like any employee publishing reports to an on-prem PBI ReportServer would need a Pro license. Other than trying to drive business to their cloud offerings. I am not sure why we would need to have Power BI Pro license to publish reports to our own PBI ReportServer. Does this requirement also incude paginated "SSRS" reports since the PBI ReportServer supports both? How many on-prem users are in breach of license?