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Question report server and licensing
You would normally manage roles for reports/folders throught the web portal. The only reason you would need SSMS is to create custom roles, but this is a very rare occurrance. In most situations the default roles are enough and you can manage these in the web portal itself.
Report Server is either licensed through Power BI Premium or SQL Server Enterprise with SA as per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/get-started#licensing-power-bi-report-server
d_gosbell ,Thank you for these clarifications.
In addition, for viewing and managing roles for reports/folders on Power BI report Server, I need to do it through Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MSSMS) by connecting to the Reporting Services (setting server type to Reporting Services in the MSSMS). This makes me have 2 more questions:
- Is there any other way?
- Is there a specific license for using Reporting Services or is that same license as the one for SQL Server DB Instance (i.e the premium license used for the Report Catalogue?
Thanks for your help.
You would normally manage roles for reports/folders throught the web portal. The only reason you would need SSMS is to create custom roles, but this is a very rare occurrance. In most situations the default roles are enough and you can manage these in the web portal itself.
Report Server is either licensed through Power BI Premium or SQL Server Enterprise with SA as per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/get-started#licensing-power-bi-report-server