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Analyze in Excel loophole ?
Hi Martin_How ,
I read some related docs and found something as follows. The link is here.
As a personal opinion, I infer that when a free user is added to the workspace and has built permission to the dataset, although he cannot access the corresponding workspace, but still has the permission of the dataset, then the free user can open the .xlsx file shared by others and download it to the local. Generally, The downloaded .xlsx and the license of pbi are not directly related as long as free user has the permission.
Hope that's what you were looking for.
Best Regards,
Yuna
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Super User1. would mean that your free users access the Power BI service as refreshing the "OLAP cube" actually queries the dataset on the service. That "should not be possible".
@Ibendlin yes I feared this was some sort of loophole. I probably should have kept my mouth shut 🙂
No, i will upgrade the current free users who use this style of report to a pro-license. I was just hoping this was a "legit" loophole and I could continue to deploy reports like this...
Anyone from Microsoft or Anonymous who can finally set the matter to rest ?
Hi Martin_How ,
I read some related docs and found something as follows. The link is here.
As a personal opinion, I infer that when a free user is added to the workspace and has built permission to the dataset, although he cannot access the corresponding workspace, but still has the permission of the dataset, then the free user can open the .xlsx file shared by others and download it to the local. Generally, The downloaded .xlsx and the license of pbi are not directly related as long as free user has the permission.
Hope that's what you were looking for.
Best Regards,
Yuna
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.