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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 validate this Power BI Pro license is there any Enterprise License alternative other than connecting to the Microsoft Cloud? We are looking for options to validate our Pro licenses internally on-premises. For security reasons, we have restricted internet access to most of the domains. Please let me know the options.
We are using SQL Server Enterprise+SA license for Power BI Report Server.
-Thanks
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- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Yes, to publish to a Report Server on-premises you are supposed to have a Pro license.
Connecting to the cloud would be the way to do it. If you want to keep it completely on-premises, I'm not aware of a clean way of doing that. You'd have to export your Pro user list from Microsoft using PowerShell or something and dump it into an on-premises database or something.
Is there any article or any relevant resource that I can look into for doing something like that for on-premises licensing of Power Bi pro. I've been searching a lot, but couldn't find any.
- Greg_Deckler
Are you talking about the PowerShell?
We are in a similar situation as posted here . I feel this may be a significant miss in the product offering for Power BI Report Server implementations. Most organizations which choose this route are doing so because they need to stay on-premise, for whatever reasons. We have invested significantly in Power BI Report Server implementation and the in-ability to disconnect, disable, and/or control key cloud service integrations has now created a critical risk for our ability to rollout and adopt Power BI as our primary BI and analytics platform. We have also considered blocking the Power BI URLs on our firewall, however this is not the right approach but rather a stop-gap with widesweeping impacts on other subsidiaries within our global organization. I feel this is a paramount gap in the Power BI Report Server (on-premise) offering. Hoping to find a work around until this can be addressed in an enterprise fashion as part of regular releases to the cloud service.
Disable/Prevent/Restrict/Block publish to cloud service for Power BI Report Server implementations
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