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8 years ago

Power BI Report Server and Power BI Pro License

Hi, I did install Power BI Report Server on one of our servers. To create and publish reports to this Power BI Report Server, it should be done through a Power BI Pro account right? To valida...

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8 years ago

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Export-a-Licence-b200ca2a

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/147109-powershell-script-to-export-license-and-objects-from-office-365-to-csv-file

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/powershell/manage-office-365-with-office-365-powershell

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8 years ago

There is also another version of Power BI Desktop (optimized for Power BI Report Server) right. I don't see a need to login for Power BI Pro account in that. So is it necessary to have a Pro subscription create and upload reports to the on-prem Power BI report Server?

muchinski
Resolver II
8 years ago
It is not an technical issue that avoid you to use the tool, but a contract/compliance matter.
- sudhir_ch
  Frequent Visitor
  8 years ago
  Exactly. Compliance matters. We did purchase pro license subscriptions to all the report developers for creating and uploading reports to the power bi report server which is installed on-prem(using Enterprise + SA). Ours is a typical environment or I have to say more of a confidential environment, where access to most of the websites is not available. Even to the Microsoft login site, i guess it is taken away because there might be chances of sharing the data\information to the outside world other than our closed environment. So we cannot login to the Pro account from the Power Bi Desktop application.
  
  Greg_Deckler did give me a solution for extracting the Pro licenses using powershell and assign it to the users by that we don't need to provide microsoft website login access to all the users in the environment. But it is more of an office 365 administrative solution I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong. We don't use office 365 in our environment. So I cannot see that as an option.
  
  So I think getting the access to the Microsoft website is only the solution to validate our Power BI pro licenses. Use of Power BI is driving us crazy in a very much controlled environment with all the security contraints which are in place to the protect everything in every way possible.