Allow Azure Active Directory guest users to access Power BI Enabled for the entire organization

[Anonymous]

Allow Azure Active Directory guest users to access Power BI

Did this tenant setting come into admin portal enabled by default? I've checked my audit logs and I don't see any activity enabling this...

[gringoinmiami]

This setting has been turned on for our Tenant for years, but external users still receive an error when trying to access PBI reports in the tenant. External users had no issue accessing PBI reports shared with them as guest users for several years, but recently this changed and they are no longer able to access the workspace.

[Anonymous]

Interestingly enough, Microsoft was able to reproduce my issue. 

Would any one here with the Power BI Administrator role confirm if they are reproduce? 

Steps to reprodue:

1. Enable 'Allow Azure Active Directory guest users to access Power BI'
2. Check on  'Updated organization's Power BI Settings' Audit Logs
3. Confirm if you are able to see the activity for the 'Allow Azure Active Directory guest users to access Power BI' you had just enabled. 

[collinq]

Hi @Anonymous ,

We need a bit more information to help you out here.  Is this a Report Server?  Is this Premium alone?  Is this for one individual person's license?  Is this for an O365 tenant that does not have Premium or Server but has a number of users?

[Anonymous]

hi @collinq - this is a Power BI Tenant Setting

Not a report server. Nor a setting specific to premium capacity.  It's the first option in Export and sharing settings.

[hakio]

We have the same experience - even though this is Enabled (and have been for many months) we cannot get the Guest users to see any content under "From External Orgs" in iether the web-app or mobile-app.

Furthermore, we got this yellow box shown, which I'm not certain how we should understand - is it feature-description or a real notification/telling that for this tenant guest users wont have access to content even though it's shared and they got permissions!? Would be very strange though, since this is actually the only thing this feature/switch should allow.

[collinq]

Ok @Anonymous ,

I think I understand now - that setting is DISabled by default.  That setting applies to users with UserType set to Guest in Azure AD.

[Anonymous]

yea, that's the odd thing.. I remember seeing this disabled previously but i am seeing this enabled now.

I've checked on the Audit Logs, 'Updated organization's Power BI Settings' and I do not see any activity applying this change...

[collinq]

Hey @Anonymous ,

That is odd -  I wonder if you can get some information from Microsoft as to when/how that was changed?