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PowerBI Report Server Costs
Community ChampionIf you have SQL EE with SA then you own PBRS. Since publishing to PBRS is a Desktop function, there is no licensing restriction enforced. However, to be compliant, you need to have a Pro license to publish to PBRS. Free users can view reports but are technically not permitted to publish.
Not sure about your last question. Because of the way that SQL Server is licensed per core and such these days, I'd expect that it is technically supposed to be on the same server...?
In our world...the EE server installation is like the living room that one can view but not uttilize (White carpet and all) Therefore, our reporting server is on another installation that gets day old data for reporting or second tier application storage...so my hope, dream, goal, etc is the Reporting Server Installation can exist just on another licenesed corporate location. (All that said: There are ZERO costs with EE? Must it be the current version or does it start at 20xx?)
- Greg_Deckler
There is a minimum version for running Power BI Report Server but my understanding is that as long as you own a version of EE that has SA that you can run Power BI Report Server. As for the same box or a different box, I don't have the answer to that question. I could argue it both ways but someone from Microsoft is going to have to chime in here.
Great points...thanks for the knowlege...Anyone from Microsoft willing to respond? (Bueller? Bueller?)